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Mars time comes to your desktop
by Ryan Carter Aug 7th 2006 at 11:35AM
Ever wonder what time it is on Mars? If you are an astronomy buff at all, you may have. Mars Clock is a small Java based application available from NASA's Goddard Institute website. This nifty app will display the surface of Mars and rotate in real time, Mars time that is. You can also toggle the display of the rover landing zones on Mars, as well as current locations of each. Did you know that scientists working on Mars projects actually put themselves on Mars time, so they can be "in-sync" with Mars daytime? And I thought I didn't get much sleep. Man, those guys are hardcore. Mars Clock is out of this world. No, I suppose it wasn't so funny, oh well. I am going to find out what time it is on Mars right now.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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