NASA Fires Rocket At Mars-See Why

NASA's Curiosity rover spotted a strange  rock on Mars, so of course, it shot it with a laser.

The intrepid, car-sized robot found an egg-shaped, golf ball-sized shiny rock that looked unlike any other rocks around it on Oct. 27.

NASA Scientists controlling the rover  suspected that the odd rock is an iron meteorite that found its way to the Martian surface.

So to confirm their suspicions, the researchers had Curiosity fire its laser at the meteorite.

The laser instrument (called ChemCam)  has a specific scientific purpose. The instrument can decipher the chemical makeup of target rocks by gathering data on the types of light the rocks emit when hit with the laser beam.

According to Curiosity's chemical analysis, the rock discovered last week is made of nickel and iron. In addition, Curiosity also found an iron-nickel-phosphide mineral that is relatively common in these kinds of meteorites, but rare in other rocks, according to NASA.

These metal meteorites are also thought to be leftovers from the cores of asteroids floating around out in the solar system.

"Iron meteorites provide records of many different asteroids that broke up, with fragments of their cores ending up on Earth and on Mars," Curiosity team member Horton Newsom said in a statement.

"Mars may have sampled a different population of asteroids than Earth has."

This isn't the first meteorite a NASA rover on Mars has spotted.
NASA's Opportunity rover — which is still roaming the surface of Mars — found another iron-nickel meteorite on the planet's surface in 2009. That meteorite, known as the Block Island meteorite, is 2-feet-long, but Opportunity also found another, smaller space rock on the red planet in 2004.

You Can Now Cast Harry Potter Spells From Your Android Phones

Android phone owners should be able to do magic now, thanks to a neat partnership between Google and the upcoming film "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which is set in the Harry Potter wizarding universe. But apparently, some of our phones flunked out of first-semester Charms class.
Google's blog on Tuesday announced three spells, straight from Potter-land, that are supposed to work with Android phones. We tried them out, to mixed results.

Saying, "OK Google, Lumos!" is supposed to turn the phone's flashlight on. This mostly worked, but be sure to pronounce "Lumos" carefully. Once, Google thought I was asking the phone to find the Seattle bar Neumo's, which rhymes with "Lumos." (Not sure what the drinking age was at Hogwarts, but am pretty sure that Harry wouldn't make the cut, at least in the early films.)
To turn the flashlight off, say "OK Google, Nox!" This worked better than "Lumos" -- not once did my Android give me results for "bagels and lox" or "Amanda Knox" instead.

And to turn off your phone's ringer and notifications, you're supposed to say "Silencio!" But when I did, my phone replied, "Here is some information about Valencia." I tried again and it offered me info on "Dillon, Colorado." Guess Google really wants to be my travel agent. Third time's the charm (or the spell), as on try No. 3 it did silence my phone. Just like magic! If you're really bad at it!

Sex robots with ‘functional vagina’ created for shy men

UK Mirror reports that the robots have hyper realistic features never seen before with in-built heaters to enable them have genuine body warmth and sensors that can react to touch. Called ‘RealDoll’, the robots are made by Abyss Creations, a California-based company.The robots are expected to be purchased by men who are too timid to approach women or those who are lonely, and unable to get sexual partners. “I want to have people actually develop an emotional attachment to not only the robot but the actual character behind it – to develop some kind of love for this being,” said Matt McMullen, founder of RealDoll. According to McMullen, the robots will cost up to £12,000 (N6,600,000m). Would you buy?