Viking Robots in Space!

I'm trying to figure out if my doing Twitter is damaging my blogging. I think blogging is more important because it allows me the time and space to develop ideas, but I'm not sure if fully developed ideas are passé.

What do I do, for instance, with this? I'm scanning through a page of news and see the headline: Viking Robots Discovered Life On Mars in 1976. This is fantastic! Who knew that the Vikings had robots? Or that the Vikings discovered life on Mars? I still find it kind astounding that they "discovered" North America. Or that there are still Vikings around in 1976?

There are two ways I can go with something like that. I can compress it into 140 characters or less and get it out quickly, or I can expand on it like I'm doing here.

So I'm trying to visualize what a Viking robot would look like. I guess it would be kind of hairy, for a robot anyway. Come to think of it, any hair on a robot would be kind of unusual. And the hat! Not only have I never seen a robot with a horned helmet, I've never seen robots with any sort of headware. So in spite of having been around for all these years, robot accessories are still not catching on.

And how did they get those awesome boats up into space? There must have been Viking rockets, or maybe a big slingshot or catapult. Were they disappointed that there was nothing to pillage when they arrived? Or were they searching for their gods? I don't even know if Vikings thought their gods lived in the sky the way we moderns do.

Okay, so maybe it's not the most significant thing I've ever written, but more fun and satisfying than what I could do on Twitter. And, by the way, I do remember when NASA launched the Viking space probes, though I hadn't realized that it was so long ago.