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Carbonara Spag Recipe

November 7, 2016 | Permalink

Carbonara Spag (for meat lover and good food lover all around )

Ingredients:
Half a  Cup of hydrated mushroom / person,
1 Can of mushroom creme family size (640g),
1 Bag of bacon 375 g, (but the more the merrier)
1 ½ portion of spaghetti / person, and
Water for cooking the spaghetti and to hydrate the mushroom.

Note:

Step 1: Hydrate the mushroom with water in a mixing bowl.

Step 2: Open the bacon and cut each slices in square.

Step 3: Fry the squared bacon in pan until the fat start to beg for mercy,

Step 4: In the same pan add the whole can of family size mushroom cream and the hydrated mushroom.

Step 5:  In a big pan boil enough water for the amount of Spaghetti you want to cook.

Step 6:  Once the water is boiling, submerge the Spaghetti in the water.

Step 7: Once the Spaghetti is cooked, separated the pasta from the water and put them in the pan with the carbonara sauce.

Step 8: Serve your guess without forgetting yourself with a bigger portion of bacon.



This meal was one of our favorite meal because it tasted so good. It is only too bad that we cannot have  this meal everyday. The bacon was a total delight, with mushroom creme nothing could have been better for this meal. This meal is best serve with bread, ideally french bread as is was Martio-french cooker who made it.

As always please try this at home. Very little supervision is require, and to eat. Please enjoy.


Sol Journal – November 7th

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The Indiana Jones of Mars

Born in Malaysia, raised in Thailand, finished university in Tasmania and chose Australia as his home. Dark grey beard, glasses in the black spectacle frame, hiking khaki colored hat and the kindest smile I have ever seen. Let me introduce you to our crew geologist Dr. Jonathan Clarke. In his late 50-s he is more fit and hardy than a 30 years old man. Always on the field but never cut out off from the real world. His best partner in crime is a hammer, which he even took on his honeymoon. If you imagined a geologist as a boring person interested only in the rocks, well Jon will rock your world with his diverse knowledge and laconic sense of humor.

Since a child, Jon was interested in rocks, fossils and minerals, together with space and biology. The years sifted childhood passions. He was too kind to cut dead animals or experiment on live ones, therefore biology didn’t stick with him. Since Australia doesn’t have own space program Jon didn’t see any possibility to work in this field. Working outside, seeing interesting places in extreme conditions and the environment made him decide to do the PHD in geology. And as a minor for the first year of university, he studied the philosophy. Philosopher C.S. Lewis influenced Jon, with his integrative worldview, which can be describe in a phrase: “If something is true, it is always a truth”.

Dr. Clarke lived in different cities and towns of Australia. Perhaps the most unusual place, where he spent five years, was a small gold and nickel mining town with population of 5000 people – Kambalda (Australia). Working and spending free time in the community of scientists and hard workers close to the bush at the edge of the salt lake, reminded Jon of how a Mars settlement might look. Since Kambalda is a company town, he drew an analogy to a possible SpaceX colony on Mars.

What has always excited Jon in the geology is the grandeur of landscape. The most exotic locations he explored as geologist were: Ladakh (India) – very high altitudes cold desert (4300 meters); White Island (New Zealand) – very volcanic active island, where you have to wear a gas masks because of the fumes, and the Atacama Desert of Chile, the driest place on Earth.

Even though geology is the biggest part of Jon’s life after his family, the love for space never left him. Before he could read, he had the encyclopedia with pictures of Mars canals and Moon’s Apollo missions. The dream of geological explorations on different planets and Moons subconsciously was leading Jon to appear among Crew 160.

In 2001, Jon was surfing the internet and saw an advertisement by Mars Society Australia, where they have been looking for someone to lead an expedition to determine the location for Mars analogue stations in Australia. Since then he never left this team of like-minded people and in 2012 became the president of Mars Society Australia. Several field expeditions to Arkaroola, Pilbara, simulated space suits, field robots, the design of an analogue station, attempt to build the pressurized rovers – Mars Society Australia already acts as a national space agency. Apart from that, Jon is also working on Mars landing sites for the first crewed mission to Mars.  

“The first geologist on Mars has to be practical in the field, get along with the crew, good handy person and with a sense of humor”, said Jon Clarke. I thought he just described himself! Now he is part of the Mars 160 analogue mission crew, but one day he might hammer Martian rocks.   


Crew Photos – November 7th

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Crew 160 on twin EVA experiment

Crew 160 on twin EVA experiment

 

Field drawing

Field drawing

 

Gypsum

Gypsum

 

Jon at geology scouting

Jon at geology scouting

 

Lichens

Lichens

 

Variety of lichens

Variety of lichens

 

Annalea and field drawing

Annalea and field drawing


Picture of the Day – November 7th

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EVA Narrative – November 7th

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EVA NARRATIVE NOVEMBER 7TH

Jon Clarke

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View towards San Rafael Swell

Today we completed the set of four comparison trails between suited and non-suited VAs with a suited EVA to a location past Factory Butte.  We had a glorious afternoon to do our EVA in, with glorious scenery across the edge of the San Rafael Swell.  This was the same area we worked in non-suited yesterday.  To avoid replication I avoided sites I have documented the day before, to keep the comparison valid I worked on similar features.  This was aided by the consistent geology and geomorphology.

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Shadow of things to come

Our activities were documented by still photography, time-lapse photography and video by the expedition members not taking part in the EVA.  The whole proceedings were masterfully supervised by our expedition Principal Investigator Shannon.  Results of the EVA will need much analysis but I can make some personal observations.

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Downhill all the way

Despite the steepness of the terrain I was able to access all the areas I had accessed unsuited, although sometimes by taking easier routes.  I was able to repeat all the observations of the geology and geomorphology made the previous day, albeit taking somewhat longer. Eith these trials complete we are looking forward to recommencing the normal EVA cycle of operations the day after tomorrow when we have debriefed and processed today’s data.

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Per ardua ad Martem