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UFO Streaks Through Martian sky
lkatz writes "The BBC is reporting that the Spirit rover has observed an object streaking across the Martian sky. They believe it was either a meteor or possibly the Viking 2 probe which still orbits Mars."
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It's the Earthlings and they've come to give the Martians anal probes! (or whatever organ is worth probing on a martian)
This could be a flying cup from Earth!!!!
I'd better charge up the batteries in my Subetha signalling device and hope the Dentressi are feeling like a bit of company for the voyage back!
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Obviously can't blame the martians for this one....
If it was Viking 2, let's hope those martian conspiracy theorists only got a blurry picture. We wouldn't want to let them know that there's extramartian intelligence just yet. First we have to set up the slave camps.
this is proof that Al-Quaeda is using Mars as a base of operations in their development of WMD, requiring a 50-fold expansion of funding for the Mars liberation effort.
Or Steven Spielbergs special effects team working on his next SciFi movie
I predict the wackos at Enterprise Mission will have some far fetched explanation for it by the end of the day.
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AHEM! I, for one, welcome our new Martian overlords! Really I do!!
I always knew they were watching, waiting, ready for the final moment...
Headed for yet another undisclosed location.
Its those damn Earthlians trying to take over Mars! Run for your life!
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It was only the Enterprise going back to the 23rd century with a whale from Earth. Anyone screaming "UFO!" tells me that some idiots will believe anything...
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How indecent, call the FCC.
[tinfoil hat] Perhaps it wasn't unidentified, and even further- Mars could be where Saddam has been hiding those weapons of mass destruction all this time. We're just witnessing it making its loop around before aiming straight for my house. [/tinfoil hat]
ok.. so heads you lose tails I win. right?
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5. Laryonov's Space Advertising
4. John Kerry on Campaigning on Mars
3. North Koreans Test-firing missiles
2. Superman coming back from vacation
1. Martians getting ready to invade earth
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There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
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So it's unidentified, on a distant planet ...
We have trouble identifying everything flying our own skies but now we have to worry about aliens invading our "yet to be conquered" planet.
That should bolster the arguments for building that interplanetary cannon so shoot down asteroids and other mean things coming our way. Wait, it could be a terrorist plot to take over Mars, better establish a base there, pronto.
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URL, of cource, being a TLA for U niversal R etard L ocator...
I'm surprised nobody yet did a joke about this flying object being Beagle2 that is just still bouncing on the Mars surface...
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did it look like a giant vacuum cleaner?
Isn't that the asteroid that's headed towards Earth?
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
It was my Illudium Q-35 Explosive Space Modulator. I was wondering where it got to.
-Marvin
P.S. Where was the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom.
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... just another weather balloon.
I've had a 1989 Yugo in orbit around Mars for about 10 years now! I miss that car.
Absolutely. It skimmed the atmosphere of Mars and bounced off and then travelled to Earth at a substantial fraction of the speed of light, to miss Earth by a few Earth radii. Rocket Scientists call this "Vogon pin-ball." It's one of those geeky jokes.
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Future Mars rovers will come equipped with special space-age tinfoil hats.
Yeesh, just because our faith-based edumactional system ("we believe you've got a chance to graduate...") doesn't teach important critical reasoning skills, like reading comprehension, that doesn't mean that slashdot should play down to that level. Doing so makes life to easier for the trolls.
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It's just SpaceShipOne in an X-Prize test flight gone horribly wrong.
Only outlaws will streak.
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make it Dejah Thoris.
I really hope none of the Martian life caught it on home video... Or they're gonna have an hour long mini-series based on the event with the title "We're Not Alone"...
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Sure it is, you are just using the redundant channels for performance.
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"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets"
But UFO means unidentified flying object. If it's falling out of the sky, it's not really flying. Maybe we should call it an unidentified falling object. Now we just need to figure out the acronym for it.
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... which achieved Mars orbit after reaching escape velocity during nuclear bomb tests in the 1950's.
Score:-1, Insightful
Hahhahahahhahaha
NASA is lucky that the UFO's Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator wasn't charged up!
ripped from Jokedump
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people:
"What are these guys in the big suits doing?" One of the astronauts said
that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, "Why certainly!" and told an underling to get a tape recorder. The Navajo elder's comments into the microphone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he refused to translate.
So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message: "Watch out for these assholes - they have come to steal your land."
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Unidentified Not On The Ground Object (UNOTGO)
Even has a pronounable acronym. You not go!
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C'mon, it's just a weather balloon.
Sales of Aluminium were up.
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I for one welcome our new Earthling Overlords
War was beginning...
Martian Captain: What Happened?
Martian Soldier: Somebody set us up the bomb!
Martian Soldier: We get signal!
Martian Captain: Main Screen Turn On!
Martian Captain: It's you!
Viking: How are you gentlemen!!
Viking: All your rover are belong to us
Viking: You are on the way to destruction
Martian Captain:What you say!!
Viking: You have no chance to survive make your time
Viking: HA HA HA HA...
"I only speak the truth"
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Of course its a damned UFO... They do not know what it is and its 'flying'. SO of couse its a U nidentified F lying O bject! :)
I think the speed range would fall around 100,000 to 200,000 mph though. For it to be going 3.5 million mph, it would have had to be hurled at us by large insectoid aliens. Damn bugs.
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and that we DID go to the moon, and went there after creating an amazing space launch infrastructure in a very short time.
Merely asserting something doesn't necessarily make it true. I seriously believe that the moon landing may have been faked, not based on nit picky evidence and counter-evidence. Instead, I base it on the fact that supposedly we did all this in the 60s and early 70s with such great success. Since then, NASA hasn't taken a human outside of earth orbit and has killed a lot of people with the Space Shuttle.
Plus, I just don't trust the US government not to lie big time. They had the means, motive, and opportunity to fake the moon landing. That plus the fact that the US hasn't been back, or done anything significant with human space flight since the suppoed moon missions leads me to believe that it was fake.
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