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People Seeing Life on Mars

Posted by michael on from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

Ward C. Diehl writes "Tech Central Station has an article detailing the latest round of Martian visions, over 100 years after Percival Lowell's canal 'sightings'. The article interviews astrobiologists, including Nobel laureate Richard Roberts, and one astronomer from the fringe. The latest photos from Mars Express, Opportunity, and Spirit are interpreted as sea shells, pyramids, Nasca-like lines, etc. and one truly freak-deaky crab claw. There's a great link list at the end of the article so we have a gallery these photos. Prepare to blow your Friday afternoon productivity!"

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  1. Life on Mars seeing people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Look Gloria, I'm telling you... this ship came crashing down, and started taking pictures... and then it drove off. It was a UFO from Earth! I swear!"

  2. "Blow Friday afternoon productivity?" by fygment · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Friday and you're on /. Fair bet the Friday productivity can't be blown much more.

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  3. Enterprise Mission by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The guy from the Enterprise Mission is a regular on Coast to Coast AM (aka 'Art Bell's show'). He's great fun to listen to... a real, genuine kook. He's been raising money to go to Washington to show pictures to congresscritters and convince them that there's life on Mars and there's a government conspiracy against it. He thinks that the Spirit and Opportunity were reprogrammed by MiBs right as they landed - that's why they had to reupload... to insert filtering software to hide the artifacts the probe accidently landed in the middle of.

    I'm not a big fan of George Noory, but Art's been hosting on weekends again. Yay.

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  4. Nasa finds a crab claw... by weeboo0104 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dr. Zoidberg I presume?

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