You do know NASA is building a new Mars rover named Curiosity.  What you may not know is you can now keep tabs on the progress by means of a new webcam.  The newly installed webcam streams video so you can watch the techs at work live.

Not sure how the techs feel about being watched but hey I like watching them so here’s the link.  The link takes you off site but it’s better that way, bandwidth and all that stuff.

The video immediately brought back memories of working in a clean room, if you’ve never done that all I can do is tell you it’s different.  Clean isn’t the word, part of what I did was industrial x-ray and a particle of just of just five-thousands of an inch in the wrong spot would ruin 6 hours of work – bang just like you never did it.

And that spider at the end of the post a couple back has gotten me about three times now.