But is he parking cars?

Archeologist think they've found where Richard III, King of England until he died in 1485, is buried. They think his body is Leicester, near a social services building, in the car park.

So my head has been ringing with the obvious question from a Douglas Adams devotee... has he been parking cars?

In the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Marvin is discovered in the car park of the restaurant after eons have passed since he saw the other characters in the novel.

After Marvin washes his head at Zaphod over the phone, Zaphod asks him: "Will you please tell us where you are!" Marvin's response: "I’m in the car park." Zaphod: "In the car park!? What are you doing there?" Marvin: "Parking cars what else do you do in the car park?"

Richard has been in the car park for only hundreds of years, not eons like Marvin... but what else would he do in the car park?

And why did I find a website with the full script so easily by googling "parking cars what else do you do in the car park?" I read this book years, if not decades, ago, but I still remember the words. They seem to be imbedded in my brain.

I think I'll go and stick my head in a bucket of water.

What took UFO spotters so long?

Oh goody! UFOs spotted on Mars!

So what took them so long? I expect UFO followers to scour any photos published by government agencies as soon as they come out. Curiosity landed on Mars on August 6, and has been sending photos back to earth from even before it landed, and no one saw any UFOs until now?

Of course, UFO means unidentified flying object. I'm sure even a speck of dust flying around Mars is unidentified. Isn't that why the rover is on Mars, to find unidentified things and examine them?

So what is Mars dust made from... does the planet have dust bunnies? There doesn't seem to be any furniture from the photos I've seen, so they wouldn't be hiding in the usual spots you find them on this planet. And wouldn't there still be dust flying around after the Curiosity landing? It didn't exactly land like a feather drifting down to the planet, it hit rather hard.

But calling the UFOs dust takes all the fun out of it. Many people think humans never went back to the moon because they didn't find any aliens to talk to on the moon. Maybe the chance of aliens on Mars will spur on more missions! That's the fun of it.

See this news article for more on the UFOs.