Ok, first up.. about Miss South Carolina and her answer to the “Find U.S. on a Map” question… if you are looking to Beauty Contests as a marker for intelligence.. you are REALLY looking up the wrong tree.  They didn’t get there
because of a 290 I.Q.

I am sure most people might remember what happened in Michigan in 1994 when an Eagle Scout tried to make his own Nuclear reactor.  Well, it seems like he is at it again, he has been arrested for theft of smoke detectors.

And the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which seemed to have a camera concern, has had that concern resolved.

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter has now taken more than 3,000 images of Mars, resolving features as small as a desk in targeted areas covering thousands of square miles of the Martian surface. Already, this is the largest Mars data set ever acquired by a single experiment.