Have you ever been to Mars?

If you have, please leave a comment with some details of your trip. I am considering taking a one-week journey to an extra-terrestrial locale, and I hear Mars is nice, but I don’t want to commit until I know if there are decent tourist attractions and accommodations available.

I’m also open to Pluto and the Crab Nebula, but as I understand it the travel to either of those places would take up most of my week. I want to have some time to relax. But if you’ve been to either of those places, I’m open to persuasion.

Actually, I think Pluto would have been my first choice if it was still considered a planet. Being down-graded to a dwarf planet has really hurt its economy, I hear, and apparently the quality of service at most of the resorts and restaurants has gone down. Any first-hand opinions?

Let me know. Thanks.

This is the fourth match of the second round of the Winners’ Bracket: Polar Bear vs. Elephant. Information is taken from Wikipedia.

The polar bear and the elephant will face off in an open grassy field with a medium-sized icy pool along one side.

Polar Bear

The polar bear prowls across the snow and ice.

The polar bear is the world’s largest land-based carnivore. A male polar bear weighs an average of 400–680 kg (880–1,500 lbs) and measures 2.4–3 m (7.9–9.8 ft) in length.

Polar bears primarily hunt seals, catching them as they emerge from holes in the ice. They are not generally aggressive, and prefer to escape rather than fight. If they are hungry, however, they can become confrontational, and have been known to kill humans.

Elephant

The African elephant species is the largest land mammal on Earth.

The elephant is the largest land mammal in the world, standing up to 4 metres (13 ft) at the shoulder and weighing as much as 12,000 kilograms (26,000 lb).

Elephants are herbivores, but they are capable of defending themselves with their feet, trunks, and tusks. An elephant’s tusks can reach over 3 m (10 ft) in length and weigh over 90 kg (200 lb).

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Yesterday I asked this question on Twitter:

“If you could only play one video game franchise for the rest of your life, with a steady supply of sequels, which franchise would you want?”

The most common response I got was Final Fantasy, but I also got Zelda, Starcraft, Fallout, Gran Turismo, and others.

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I would want a franchise that included a variety of gameplay styles and allowed for single-player, cooperative multiplayer, and competitive multiplayer. Read the rest of this entry…

This is the third match of the second round of the Winners’ Bracket: Lion vs. Cougar. Information is taken from Wikipedia.

The lion and the cougar will face off in a grassy field, with a few scattered trees.

Lion

The lion waits patiently for its match to begin.

Lions can reach weights of up to 250 kg (550 pounds) or higher. “With powerful legs, a strong jaw, and 8 cm (3.1 in) long canine teeth, the lion can bring down and kill large prey” (Wikipedia).

Cougar

The cougar watches alertly as it awaits its opponent.

Cougars–also known as mountain lions, pumas, catamounts, or panthers–stand about 60 to 76 cm (2.0 to 2.5 ft) tall at the shoulders, reach lengths of up to 2.4 m (9 ft) nose to tail, and, in rare cases, weigh as much as 118 kg (260 lbs). “A capable stalk-and-ambush predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources include ungulates such as deer, elk, and bighorn sheep” (Wikipedia).

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I hung my hat up
On a peg
And slipped out of my coat

I pulled my pants off
Both my legs
And flung them off the boat

In just a t-shirt
And my briefs
I dove into the moat

My pants distracted
Both the sharks
While I retrieved the tote

Inside I found six
Mermaid eggs
Which I fed to the goat

He didn’t like them
Very much
So the Queen had me beheaded and stole my briefs and fed my body to the sharks