哇,这是对着我来的吗? ------------------------------------------ B.P.R.D. 超自然调查防御署(简称B.P.R.D或者BPRD)是麦克·米格诺拉漫画作品中的一个虚构机构,负责保护美国以至世界免受神秘主义,超自然等活动的侵害。几位超能力者为此机构服务,其中包括地狱男爵Hellboy。BPRD最早出现在地狱男爵的漫画里,但也为很多在B.P.R.D名下的漫画所用。B.P.R.D.全称Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense,即超自然现象研究和防御局。 成立于1945,其成立的目的是为了抵御来自纳粹德国操控的各类超自然力量的威胁。这个秘密机构的资金主要来源于美国和英国政府。Bruttenholm教授是B.P.R.D.创始人,同时也是第一任负责人,直到50年代后期他退隐归田。现任负责人是Thomas Manning博士。
美国联邦政府关门,NASA,NSF等国家科研机构职员被休假。之前传闻说由JPL(NASA的喷气推进实验室)主持运作的好奇号火星车被迫进入休眠状态。 但今天的 新闻 出来辟谣说,由于喷气推进实验室是隶属于加州理工的私人性质的合同工(对于NASA),它的职员并不属于NASA雇员,所以好奇号的运作并不会受到影响。 The shuttering of the federal government hasresulted in NASA shutting down almost completely — but for the time being at least, the Mars Curiosity rover won't be affected. A spokesperson for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which operates both Curiosity and the older Spirit rover, has clarified to International Business Times that JPL is a private contractor owned by the California Institute of Technology. As such, its personnel aren't among the 17,701 NASA employees that were furloughed today after theUS Congress was unable to pass a funding bill . That means at the moment Curiosity will continue to operate as scheduled, even if its Twitter account has gone offline.