Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV show of 2013 onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com Game of Thrones is the most pirated TV show of 2013

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For the second time running, this year's season of Game of Thrones was the discerning pirate's programme of choice.

It wasn't the most talked about episode of the season, The Rains of Castamere, that cinched the title for the series but the finalé, Mhysa, which saw 5.9 million people pay the Iron Price on BitTorrent to check out the aftermath of the Red Wedding and Daenerys freeing the slaves of Yunkai. It's the second year in a row that the series has held the dubious honor, with Season 2's Valar Morghulis being downloaded over 4.2 million times. If anything, it's something creators behind the series have began to embrace, with some arguing that piracy is almost an essential aspect of Game of Throne's monumental success.

Genre shows made a bit of an impact in general when it came to piracy this year, with three of the slots in the top ten taken up by genre hits. Here's the full breakdown of 2013's most pirated TV shows:

1. Game of Thrones (5.9m)

2. Breaking Bad (4.2m)

3. The Walking Dead (3.6m)

4. The Big Bang Theory (3.4m)

5. Dexter (3.1m)

6. How I Met Your Mother (3m)

7. Suits (2.6m)

8. Homeland (2.4m)

9. Vikings (2.3m)

10. Arrow (2.2m)

[The Independent]

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This Is What Happens When You Drive Through Three Miles Of Mars onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com

onlinecollegedegreee.blogspot.com This Is What Happens When You Drive Through Three Miles Of Mars

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NASA's Curiosity rover has been on Mars for over a year now, and in the time has traversed nearly three miles. While its wheels are made of high-grade aluminum, they're not strong enough to last forever. NASA announced this week it was taking an extra-long look at the wheels, and boy are they in rough shape.

Dents and holes are to be expected after a bit of time driving on the surface of another planet, but the wear-and-tear has accelerated lately and NASA's not sure why. To examine the damage, they've taken a few beautiful shots of Curiosity's six wheels, and you can really see what rough terrain does to the average space-faring probe. It looks like Curiosity's been through the wringer.

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Ouch.

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As you can see in the picture below, some of the dents haven't quite punched clean through yet, but they're on their way:

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And this is what the wheels looked like when (relatively) shiny and new:

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And I just thought this picture was really cool, so enjoy:

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Even in rough shape, the cosmos and the human engineering that gets us there is incredibly beautiful.

[via Discovery]

Photos credit NASA-JPL

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