Category Archives: Mars Colony

On Monday, the College announced in the Campus Digest that it will be replacing its goal for a carbon-neutral 2025 with a new, more exciting one: Mission Mars: Oberlin Occupy 2035, or, as the Board of Trustees has affectionately been calling it on its Discord server, Mission MOO. In Oberlins ongoing relationship with the United Nations and Elon Musk, it has booked a one-way ticket to colonize Mars. Continue reading →

Driving into the Anderson Valley is a dizzying experience. Continue reading →

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Jeff continues warming up to the secret society hes been inducted into, who call themselves The Buckies. They continue making plans to escape the colony and make their own, with Blackjack and Hookers! Soon, Jeffs given a new task and says goodbye to Mr. Continue reading →

Few companies have the pedigree, history and pure elan of McLaren Automotive, the British manufacturer of luxury, high-performance sports cars and supercars. McLaren was founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren, a New Zealand-born racing driver, and initially the company designed and built only race cars. In recent years, though, it has shifted its focus to high-performance road cars Continue reading →

Developed by Haemimont Games, the same studio behind city-builders Surviving Mars and Tropico 5, Stranded: Alien Dawn requires less expertise from players, even on the hardest levels of difficulty. Although it doesn't go as deep as Rimworld when it comes to the building options, the game is easier and more streamlined to accommodate all kinds of players. In Stranded: Alien Dawn, you guide a group of survivors who have just crashed on an alien planet Continue reading →

Danish researchers have found more than 4,000 different species of microorganisms in melt holes in the ice like these. Credit: Laura Halbach Greenlands ice is abundant with life, both above and below its surface. Until recently, science was unaware of the existence of certain microscopic organisms living there Continue reading →

As an eight-year-old in October 1957, I recall listening to Radio Moscow broadcasting the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik 1, the first Earth satellite, on my brothers tinny transistor radio. The Americans embarrassment at being beaten by this first dramatic move in what became the space race was compounded a few weeks later when the US Vanguard rocket barely managed to rise a single metre before it fell back and exploded. Continue reading →