Woodland, a Manhattan Project scientist, came up with the idea for bar codes while running his fingers through the sand, trying to figure out how to put a unique code on every item of merchandise that could be easily scanned by a mechanical device.

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As we suggested yesterday, technical analysts believe this 1, 040 figure is an important line in the sand.

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And a lot of people what they do is they bury their head in the sand thinking hey, I've done the right thing so let them figure out.

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There's a vial of a substance he calls KimSim, a material his girlfriend helped create to figure out how to rescue the Spirit rover after it got stuck in a "sand trap" of alien soil on Mars in 2009.

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