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The account of Mars exploration, and the landing of Curiosity in the New Yorker is pretty incredible.

I remember hearing a lot, when it happened, about just what a tricky thing it was to pull off, but I didn't really realize the scope of it until now.

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UGH I haven't done any Chinese flashcards in a month and now I am trying to get caught back up with them but I am failing EVERYTHING.

Trouble is, I do sentence flashcards rather than vocabulary flashcards for many good reasons, so if I miss even one character in a 15-character or 20-character sentence I have to fail it. Which is fine when everything is stuff you know reasonably well, but when everything is suddenly stuff you haven't seen in a month...