Minespawn: Minecraft 1.3!

Minespawn is the go-to place for all the Minecraft user-made goodies. Great Texture Packs? Amazing Servers? Spectacular Mods? Every week, one of these things will be featured here so you can keep your Minecraft toys stocked up with the latest fun.

So Minecraft 1.3 came out a little while ago, and we are going to talk about it here! I will talk about some of the major updates and my opinions on them!

Mars Landing

Hello readers of ION. The Mars Rover Curiosity just landed safely on the red planet.


This 2.5 billion dollar mission was a success and mission control just expressed everything I was feeling as it touched down. Wow. 10:14 PM PDT was the official touchdown time of the rover. This was the first picture sent back down to Pacedena, CA looked a bit like this.

Terrible, I know. But that is low-res. A wheel is pictured in there. A high-res pic came a little bit later, but it'll be all over the internet. There was also a picture taken on the front end of the rover as well. Here it is.

You can see the shadow of the rover there. 

Curiosity is safe, and she is doing great. There was a bit of dust but nothing major. Press conferences are starting soon. 

I cannot explain the emotion. We just landed the biggest rover on the face of the planet (did you see what I did there) We are going to look for the unknown, finally. This is the mission we have been waiting for.

Six years are the making, of something this incredible. The universe was one-upped by the human spirit today, and we will continue to keep growing. We dared mighty things, and we ate our peanuts, and we landed on another planet. And I'll be up doing this when we land a human on mars.

Like the guy in mission control said, HOLY SHIT!

Let our curiosity take us places we never dreamed we'd be.

-Rachael The Ginger

Just Some Quick Info

Hello readers of ION. Yesterday I made a blog about the mars landing that is happening today. Well I forgot to mention that I will be posting right after the 7 minutes of terror about the things that are happening because I will be watching the landing unfold live at this website. You should watch too. The pre-show starts August 5th at 8:30 pm pacific time. That's 9:30 for mountain time and 11:30(?) eastern time. If you don't tune it there will be a recap on this blog.


Minecraft 1.3. I know it came out a while ago but I will be doing a review blog, soon. Possibly today.


OS X Mountain Lion. Video review, soon. Possibly Monday.


So stay tuned everybody. Thank you.


-Rachael The Ginger

Gears And Gadgets: Information You Should Know Involving The Mars Landing This Sunday

Technology is always evolving, and sometimes it's hard to keep up. Here at Gears and Gadgets, we'll discuss all the latest innovations in technology and science, and we'll give you links to people who know even more about the subject.

Today on Gears and Gadgets, I'd like to throw a little knowledge at your face for the revolutionary mars landing that is happening TOMORROW. Just to get you a little informed, and links to where you can get more info and links to where you can watch it live.

VIRAL: Bob Ross Re-Mixed!?

VIRAL is the place to hear about everything Youtube. Brand new hit videos, amazing Youtubers, and the best channels will all be discussed here. 

Gears And Gadgets: In News This Week

Technology is always evolving, and sometimes it's hard to keep up.  Here at Gears and Gadgets, we'll discuss all the latest innovations in technology and science, and will give you links to people who know even more about the subject! 


We have a lot of stuff going on in technology this week (2 weeks)! In this blog I will talk about each subject briefly and then link you to the full article! Here we go!

Gears and Gadgets: OSX Mountain Lion

Hello readers of ION. OSX Mountain Lion came out recently, and in a week or so, I will be getting a laptop and be able to download it. So, if you are patient enough, I might even do a video review of Mountain Lion. 


But for the time being, you can read this article. It is quite long, and I would recommend just going to the things that will interest you, but it's here for your reading.


And just as another update, Minecraft 1.3 will be coming out very soon, and a in depth blog and vlog will be done about that as well.


Thanks.


-Rachael The Ginger

Game Grenade: Robloxian Warfare

Game Grenade is where you can hear about everything game related: reviews, tutorials, news, fan-fiction, and just plain fun.  Here we'll be covering today's best sellers as well as decade old classics.

  

Roblox, a popular online building game, has gone group crazy ever since the feature's invention in 2009.  Many groups have tens of thousands of members, and the largest, FEAR (First Encounter Assault Recon) has 124,496 people, and is currently the only group to have over 100 thousand of them.  Here is a link to their page: http://www.roblox.com/Groups/group.aspx?gid=72321
 

Not Much of an Ion

In case you don't know, an Ion is an atom with either a positive or negative charge.  The atom has given up/taken more electrons to increase its stability.  That's an ion.

Aurora Theatre Shooting Update

Hello readers of ION. You may have heard already but there was a major shooting that killed 12 people in Aurora, CO. As 3/4th of our team lives in Colorado, we just wanted to let you know that we are all okay, but we would also like to take time to mourn these lives that were lost in our state. 



We are keeping the victims and their loved ones in our thoughts and prayers. We are deeply saddened by the events that have transpired, and we are also saddened by the fact that this happened to people who just wanted to see a movie. We encourage you to keep them in your thoughts as well.


The man suspected of committing this awful crime is expected to be put to justice. If you would like to read the full story click here to do so.


This is a sad and scary day for Colorado, but we will keep our Mile High spirit nonetheless. 


Thank you.


-Rachael The Ginger on behalf of the entire ION team.