Thanks CF--and I didn't even help you find a cookbook!

You can bring him this one.

Has CF become a Christian at last? I assumed he was still into that vaguely-Christian-flavored self-idolatry nonsense.

I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what constitutes a Christian recipe, much less what or who is a Christian.

Here's an early 'traditional' recipe with generic ingredients. Don't think it'll catch on all that much unless you really want to increase fiber intake and lose weight. (Bonus: link is also on-topic in the general science thread).

That's true, there can be a large grey area. Let's put it this way, has he moved up into that grey area to the point where we could give him the benefit of the doubt? Or has nothing changed at all, and the cookbook is just wishful thinking? (My bet is on the latter).

For those interested, Curiosity is landing on Mars in about 2 hours. See NASA tv here. It should land at 1:31 Eastern Daylight Time (5:31 UT), August 6th.

What makes this landing so interesting is that it will be done a la Rube Goldberg. See Seven Minutes of Terror, which refers to the fact that it takes seven minutes for Curiosity to go from the top of the atmosphere to the ground, but signal from Mars will take 14 minutes to get to earth. So, when we get the signal that Curiosity has started its descent, it will have already been on the surface for 7 minutes...hopefully in one piece. Tension will be rather high till they hear (which I just learned could take a few hours to three days depending on how a number of factors come together).

And it landed safely. A couple of low-resolution thumbnail pics are available. Will have to wait for 8 hours till Curiosity is facing Earth and we can get high-resolution photos. btw, they targeted the landing area because it appears to be an alluvial flood plain so they'll be looking into the history of water on Mars.

Yeah, they told us at NASA last week that they were landing this thing today. I posted a bunch of NASA pix on Facebook, but forgot to mention that.

Pics here.

The Mars landing broadcasts made Bobak Ferdowsi aka Mohawk Guy (flight director) an instant internet sensation.


Obama phoned to congratulate the Mars team, then talked about Ferdowsi's mohawk. Obama said

So....