If it survives the descent and landing, the Beagle II is designed to pop open, raise its solar panels and, eventually, use robotic arms and a collection of sniffers, spectrometers and digging devices to search for signs of carbon, water or bacteria on and beneath the surface of Mars.
When researchers compared the digging efficiency of the clam to commercial digging devices like anchors, it found that it was 10 times as efficient at digging as the machines on the market.
And as the Internet continues to grow, a clam-like digging device could be an environmentally friendly way to lay down more submarine data cables between continents, without bringing in large digging devices.
Such efficient digging devices could be useful for ocean surveys or geological surveys or surveillance.
Scientists have built a robotic clam that isn't edible but could be incredibly useful, because it easily outperforms other commercial digging devices.
When God admires one of her songs and materializes in front of her, Sarah, surprised that he's black, inquires, "Are you God's black friend?" Later, calling him Black God, she reassures him, "I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'Oh, God is black — is he going to steal the moon, or something?' " (Much of Silverman's comedy springs from the device of digging the hole deeper).
When God admires one of her songs and materializes in front of her, Sarah, surprised that he's black, inquires, "Are you God's black friend?" Later, calling him Black God, she reassures him, "I'm not one of those people who's, like, 'Oh, God is black is he going to steal the moon, or something?' " (Much of Silverman's comedy springs from the device of digging the hole deeper).
Faced with this predicament, the man who had found the I.E.D. calmly pulled out his knife, dug out the device and dismantled it.
In fact, I'm thankful for that because I've had time to really dig into the device and get over my own fanboyism.
