At Dhalia's Mars Conference in Austin, Texas her team decided to make a mascot, known as socko. socko talked to the audience, showed slides and took video interviews. socko was such a hit that hookups at stanford university decided that socko was a gold mine and hired him on the spot for publicity shootings, to get people into mars travel.. and to eat cake. lots of cake. just so you know, socko likes jugglers. go socko go.