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Martian 'Happy Face' Crater
Astroturtle writes "The two pictures shown here are taken from the same daily global image mosaic (the only difference is that each was processed slightly differently). The pictures show Galle Crater, informally known as 'Happy Face,' as it appeared in early southern winter."
Those martians are playin' with us! First they do the face, and we look closer and it's just a dune. Now they're doin the happy face.
I tell ya, they're laughin' at us, right now!!!!1!!
<dons foil helmet>
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What they didn't disclose is that the Happy Face was purposely built over 20,000 years ago by 13-year old Martian OMIMers (Olympus Mons Online Instant Messenger), and that about 50 miles southwest of the giant happy face are 2-kilometer high pyramids arranged in a pattern that spells "LOL , BRB!"
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
The happy face logo is now seen on the Red Planet? What next? Falling prices on falling stars?
"Wal-Mars. Always low gravity. Always."
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
It's him, I swear!
Danke tres mucho, tovarishch.
Let's see,
Big, round head....
Tiny little dot eyes....
No nose to speak of....
Holy crap! The Martians look like Charlie Brown!
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A while back, Terry Pratchett wrote a book called 'Strata' in which the main plot premise was that Humans were terraforming the entire galaxy planet by planet, leaving 'history' inside those planets in the form of fake fossils and layers of rock. Occasionally, a 'prank' would slip through like the boot-prints in the sediment-strata or a digitial watch embedded in a seam of coal.
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"Big, round head Tiny little dot eyes
No nose to speak of.... The Martians look like Charlie Brown!"
Heck no. That's Steve Ballmer!
For all we know, in an alien society, that kind of expression might mean, "I'm going to kill you all, motherfuckers!!!"
Repeal the DMCA!
The Happy Face motif is seen all throught the graphic novel/comic book "Watchmen" written by Alan Moore. One scene, set on Mars, has the reader's point of view pull back from a Martian crater to reveal a Happy Face.... all it needs is the splash of blood on one corner near the left eye...
If you've not read "Watchmen", I'd highly recommend it, along with "From Hell". Both are excellent stories and the art in them is superb.
Dr Fish
When did Jack in the Box expand to Mars?
"Derp de derp."
This has been known about for quite some time! Astronomy Picture of the Day from more than 3 years ago featured this crater. Slashdot Science has been quite sucky lately!
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'Happy Face' crater of Mars
NASA/JPL/MSSS RELEASE
Posted: May 17, 2003
It's a new picture of an old crater. The old one was offset at an angle, this one is finally "Face On" so to speak.
...some people will believe that aliens made this face a long time ago and some other stupid stuff. If aliens wanted to make something that looked like us, so we can see it and say "Wow aliens really do exist" they'd make somthing way more complex than a huge crater with two hills for eyes and a long hill for a mouth. They'd make something like Mount Rushmore, but on a much grander scale. Not a few natural things that form together to make a shape a 3 year old would draw. Or they'd leave giant complex geometric shapes. If they found a huge triangle, split down the middle to make two triangles, where one is split down the middle to make two more triangles, where one is split... till it forms a hundred small triangles or so, I'd deffinitely believe that aliens left some soft of symbols for us to find proving that they'd exist. Or maybe if there were crop circles on mars (dust circles?) I'd deffinitely believe. But until huge (complex, and not something that would occur naturally) alien symbols are left behind, on some planet other than our own, I'll keep believing that aliens exist but don't want to bother contacting us (or don't have the technology.)
the happy face in the pictures look like this:
: )
(rotated 90 degrees clockwise)
That's a crop circle!
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Here is the largest one I could Google. Somewhat flawed, unfortunately.