The Rio Olympics opened with spectacle– and a lesson on climate change (from an Olympiad with more than a few problems, environmental and otherwise)
In off-world-related news, Moon Express has been approved for a private lunar landing in 2017, Space-X prepares for a pair of launches, and Russia plans to land on Ganymede:
Below, Spider-Robot spins a web, any size:
Kinda found it hypocritical to be lectured about Climate Change by Brazilians but if they can come around to not wiping out their own forests, maybe the rest of us can pitch in too.
It would be like a presidential candidate with a penchant for serial lying constantly calling his opponent a liar.
But yeah, if the Brazilian show brings necessary attention, then it’s a good thing. It’s not like their substantial environmental problems are not connected to ours.
I see what you did there…
If ever a sentence could use non-gender specific pronuous, this is one of those times.