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'Civilization on Mars' Claims Debunked
StarEmperor writes "Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait has finally taken some time to
debunk conspiracy theorist Richard Hoagland's claims about life on Mars. There's also a CNN story about this here."
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Russians found liquid water on Mars!
http://www.libo.ru
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Daffy Duck told me Marvin the Martian was there and was going to destroy the earth! Don't tell me television has been lying to me all these years.
Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some pimpin in it
WTF? So now Total Recall is all fake too? There's 2 hours of 'science learning' I'll never get back.
But he's be on TV and the radio. People on TV and the radio are never wrong.
Oh, also, he claims if he weren't right, people wouldn't spend time trying to say he's wrong.
Can I take off my tinfoil hat now? It's kind of itchy. And hot.
Oh.. you mean you are talking about the real planet Mars?
Hey, that's my password you are typing
And in other news, NASA's Mission to the Giant Turtle has been canceled.
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
...ah, screw it. Too easy.
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
From the linked site:
A few days later, the Opportunity rover left its lander and started roving across Mars. In images returned after that, it looked like Opportunity had run over the "bunny"! Worse, Opportunity had made a little side excursion while moving, making it look like NASA had run over the object on purpose. Was NASA trying to cover up the existence of an alien?
No, they were trying to hide evidence of the Easter Bunny! Conspiracy!
They at least could have waited until after Easter. Bastards.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Plait: What happen?
....
Mechanic: Someone blow up us the Beagle!
Plait: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on!
Plait: It's you!!
Hoagland: How are you gentlemen!!
Hoagland: All your mars rover are belong to aliens
Hoagland: You are on the way to destruction
Plait: What you say?
Hoagland: You have no chance to explore mars junk
Hoagland: Ha ha ha
Operator: Dr. Plait!!
Captain: Take off every 'Beagle'!!
Captain: Move 'Beagle'.
Captain: For great justice.
Ok... I know it sucks... but laugh. You knew it was coming. At least it wasnt goatse!
Phil Plait should be given some award for his work in debunking bullshit.
What suitable options are there?
World's Best Debunker t-shirt?
Marvin
I had no idea Space Ghost has that many followers... must be the Martians watching Adult Swim via satellite...
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Hmm, not a juvie, but... I thought step i was "collect underpants"...? :-)
The House Between - Original Sci-Fi Series
...You see this Slashdot headline and the first thing you think of is a new Sid Meier game.
...has been cancelled due to unknown forces trying to keep the truth hidden from the people.
Still better than 'Fox News' though...
Well, that's one side to the debate, but I'm sure that there are others who would disagree. if they had their heads on backwards and screwed up their a.. Damn, these new subliminal mics are tricky!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
In a recent survey by the National Inquirer:
40% of readers believed the moon landings were faked.
60% of readers believed the moon landings encountered UFO's on the moon.
30% of readers believe both of the above.
The photos aren't real. According to some authorities in the know, the pictures were genrated using Pixar which is based on alein technology found at Roswell. But, if you look closely at the photos, you will see definite proof of the exitence of alien moonbases. This proves that aliens exist and inhabit the Moon and Mars.
Un-news
the cooks will still believe what they want to believe
Thawing meat in the microwave, using crappy store-bought herbs.. Theres no reasoning with some of those guys!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
What? You mean a mention on Slashdot isn't award enough?
Putting the "anal" back into "analyst"...
"I'm extremely disapointed in the reactions here. The space.com article was clearly a character assasination of Hoagland."
Nice to see you joining us on Slashdot, Mr. Hoagland. Now go away.
People are much more likely to accept something as a fact if it comes from 'a scientist'.
Or if they read it on Slashdot.
Why have 1 person driving a backhoe when you could employ 20 with shovels?
Since the limitation of Unicode is up to 1 million characters, won't we run into problems with Unicode once all alien character sets are added to it? ;P
Un-news
If they find solid H2O on Mars I wonder what we will find in Uranus?
> Does this look like a Sphinx??
I was going to say it looked like a nipple, then realized you meant the pile of rocks.
Did you check what NASA did to "prove" their point? Those pictures where manipulated with the high altitude filer to give the appearance that the Face is just a natural object. Earlier photographs showed something entirely different.
a /proof_files/proof.asp
Check another proof on this matter at: http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydoni
IP was invented for the sake of lawsuits.
Dude, the "glass worm" explains everything. Now we know where all that water that used to be on Mars went: little makers keeping it deep inside the planet. And, we know why Mars is red: all that spice. All praise Shai'Hulud! Death to the non-believers!
Now I feel all pseudo-sciencey.
I know a person who was convinced that dogs in Egypt say 'meow meow' instead of 'bow wow'.
I got one better. (And it's almost on-topic too!) My wife, until a few months ago, honestly had no idea that the moon didn't generate its own light. When I first learned of this, I picked my jaw up off the floor and tried explaining to her that it was really the sun's light reflecting off it. Unfortunately, she couldn't comprehend how it could still be illuminated at night, so true enlightenment didn't come until I made a mockup of the solar system with skittles and a flashlight.
She also didn't know that stars were suns and vice versa. She's a great person and usually has common sense by the truckload, but I've come to the conclusion that her teachers in elementary school must have been Bastard Science Educators From Hell or something.
Excellent site. If you poke around, you can find that there's a happy moose on Mars!
Everyone knows all the Marsian water was used to produce Russian vodka. Russians found vodka on Mars, now that's more like it.
You can't handle the truth.