“Huygens step for humankind.” was penned precisely on 14 January, 2005 11:19 PM, which happened to be a Friday. but you know what? dullneon.com's random notes has now moved to a new location.
The Huygens probe (named after a 17th century mathematician & astronomer) landed on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan — the furthest a human-made craft has ever landed. The lush, (obviously man made but nonetheless) beautiful illustration that accompanied the story would probably look perfect as cover art for almost any Isaac Asimov novel.
this was published on 14 January in the year 2005, which was a Friday. anyway, all this is old and archived. everything has been now been moved, so head on down to the revamped almost daily random notes (unless of course you like this old stuff too much to part with it).