This week's PhD Comic lists the 4 'research topics guaranteed to be picked up by the new media':
- Chocolate
- Robots
- Unrealistic Sci-Fi gadgets
- Experiments that might blow up the world
So far I'm at best 1 for 4, having covered Earth in peril in Jupiter Ignites! and in Secrets in the L4/L5 Gravity Wells. Which also happen to be most two most-trafficed articles. So clearly Jorge, the comic's author, is onto something.
With that in mind, my readers can expect a piece on space robots in the next few weeks, as well as an in-depth look at neat space gadgetry that may or may not only exist in movies. And perhaps another world cataclysm or two.
But the problem remains, how can I connect chocolate and space? Well, they have found evidence of Sugar in space. Can cocoa beans be that far behind? Perhaps... perhaps cocoa beans put there by robots, using ultra-futuristic tech!
So, see you shortly, as soon as I finish my research into the future choco-riffic robots poised to destroy the Earth!
Alex, the daytime astronomer
