Curioislity, the Mars rover successfully placed on the red planet by NASA, has successfully deployed its ChemCam laser to vaporize a rock in order to test the rock’s chemistry.
This is a victory by a large number of people from NASA and from partner organizations, but my favorite reaction so far has been from Kelkulus, who tweeted:
I’m reminded of the Calvin and Hobbes strip from Weirdos from Another Planet:
The monster is always us. Which is awesome.