It combines a camera with a laser to shoot whatever is being recorded. If YouTube used that technology we'd improve the human race within a week. It's also why we put it on the mast of our ambassador robots -- it's way scarier than a Skull and Crossbones and kicks much more ass. If you think you can't have pirates on Mars because there was no water, Curiosity also found evidence that there was running water. We are right now driving an exoplanatery robot along the stream bed of one of the most exciting clues about life on another planet and the possible fate of our own. If you're into that kind of thing.

2 Worked Out How to Kill Optimism With Magnets

Science gives us reasons to be optimistic about this world, because science gives us everything in this world, including a way to fix that "optimism" bug. The human brain has a serious design flaw, over-valuing positive information and minimizing bad news. That's because any monkey who could truly appreciate the nature of saber-toothed tigers and how a fight with one ends would never have climbed down from the trees in the first place. But this has left us with people who continue to invest in financial bubbles, ignore serious medical advice and continue to buy lottery tickets while hoping that burning smell from under the car hood will just go away.