This is totally awesome! I shared it with my friend who's an astronomy nut as well. He did something just like this in the 90s sending his name to Mars. I put my name in and set my pin code as 1725, the middle year of my favorite decade (1720 - 1730)

I was also very heavy into astronomy when I was a kid. I sent my name up on the last 2 Mars rover missions. I didn't even know they were doing it for this one until I saw it in my news feed today at work. :)

1720s. End of the Golden Age of Pirates? Arrgh!

I just read it again and saw that they will splashdown off the coast of San Diego. I hope it's close enough to see the at least part of the return.

holy shit I can add my name... i'll do it later tho! so fuckin cool bru

Cheers, I like your Journey to Peru page, and the octopuses garden!

Nice!

I started watching it this evening and it's wonderful. I haven't really seen anything else from Ken Burns yet as famous as he is, but episode 1 is great. Very moving.

I watched about half of the first episode last night. I'm also really digging it. The show seems to be very well done and with a lot of depth. :)

I had no idea this was a thing but Huzzah! All hail Steve Irwin Day!!! Let's toast and drink the blood of our enemies in celebration :) Metaphorically of course.

I didn't either. Came across it purely by accident! Huzzah! *raises skull-shaped chalice*

Aw yeah!

This reminded me of the story of Nimue, The Lady of the Lake. Specifically the song Karliene made about it a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NcgP7b-Eak. I had an idea for a board game once based on it as well but it would take a lot of work to find the notes for it.