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The Core Dump

The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.

    By Nic Lindh on Wednesday, March 03, 2004 in personal · 1 min read

    Bring your flippers to Mars

    Sure, this is already all over the Net, but it’s still the kind of news that makes The Core Dump all tingly inside: NASA has found evidence that there was once flowing water on Mars. Now we’re just waiting for evidence that some form of life once existed there.

    Go rovers, go!

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