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greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow jelly the pesky talk show in the known universe you're watching one of our miniature episodes which always happened Monday Tuesday Wednesday where we talk to you about a couple of future tech stories and then on Thursday we have a long episode that's about 45 minutes long where we welcome a guest and talk about our favorite stories of the week so let's hit some headlines there's a dual asteroid system near our planet called didymus and the European Space Agency is using a robotic arm to test landings right here on earth the idea here is to send a relatively autonomous spacecraft towards didymus and get it close enough to land an instrument package on one of the asteroid surfaces without damaging that delivery the ESA recently tested this idea using a model asteroid a robotic arm and an actual navigation camera used in spacecraft the robotic arm played the part of the spacecraft and approached the model asteroid the way the ESA believes a real one would while the camera tracked the asteroids landmarks and movement helping the spacecraft or the robotic arm adjust as needed for approach if they get approval the asteroid impact and deflection assessment mission will launch in 2020 and hopefully land on an asteroid by 2020 to get out your permission slips for this next story because we're gonna take a field trip my hero this week is named Vincent Vincent is a cat with some special new prosthetics but there's more to it than just being an adorable feet line with some peg legs dr. Mary Sarah Berg is an associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Iowa State University's Veterinary Medical Center and she wanted to help out Vincent with some high tech legs he was born without his back legs and Berg worked with a 3d printing company to create special titanium peg legs for the little cute furball even better these aren't just attachable prosthetics like we're used to seeing they're actually attached inside his upper leg bones and over time they will fuse to those pegs this means he's now our favorite Bionic cat of all time I love him thats it for our headlines let's take a look at one of your great photos this photo is from Paul and he wrote to us and said hi Ashley and Jeff thought you may like this photo I took on my samsung galaxy note 4 I took it while since pain on my wife's birthday it's in the torremolinos Botanical Gardens we both loved the gardens as a whole but felt this was a true area of zen peacefulness hope you guys like it and it works for you as it did for us you have my permission to use the photo and spread peace and relaxed videos across the known universe enjoy Paul Paul thank you so much for that picture and in fact I do feel more Zen like I'm gonna go outside today for lunch and sketch in the gardens if I can find some Gardens if you guys want to send in your phone tog raphy for phone tog refer the day feel free to email us tomorrow at cnet com give us permission to use your picture in the show and of course tell us a little bit about your photo if you want to find us on social media we're all over the Internet at these places you find us on Twitter as individuals and as a show just right here that is it for today's show we will be back tomorrow with a brand new docket in hour-long show of weird science back meeting science fiction and we're gonna have special guest Jessica Chobot from Nerdist on the show talking about Japanese candy and maybe some other stuff so we will see you tomorrow but until then vegan humans will see you guys next time hi