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Opportunity Spots Curious Object On Mars
EhobaX writes "Space.com is reporting that NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has come across an interesting object -- perhaps a meteorite sitting out in the open at Meridiani Planum. Initial data taken by the robot's Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) is suggestive that the odd-looking "rock" is made of metal."
So that is what happened to the Beagle lander! They finally found it.
Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
I still prefer a cute bunny over metal robot.
To make a good sci-fi story though, Opportunity might have just reached its expiry date and that'll keep everybody in suspense for a long time.
Rock that crushes, Paper & Scissors that don't matter.
it's a space station!
All that's left after the martian holocaust...
Wait -- I've seen this movie! DON'T GO LOOK AT IT!
If we tell GWB it's a WMD, maybe we'll finally get a real space program...
Jimmy Hoffa has been found...
They found an alien metal object on MARS!!
Be careful with the abrasion tool or there could be an earth-shattering kaboom.
I always wondered what happened to it.
-- I discovered this SIG in the lost and found department.
Project leader Kenobi: it's not a rock. It's a space station
Data Analyst Rimmer: Aliens!
Computer Programmer Neo: Woaaah
Charateristic topology, metal composition, scorched surroundings; clearly Mars is giving birth.
My guess is that it will turn out to be This.
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It's the Monolith. Taa... taa... taaa...... TATAAAA!!!
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I stress that this is very preliminary!
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Did this guy think that by saying that he would somehow prevent half of the internet preparing some crackpot theory within 5 seconds of reading it?
Personally, I'll wait before jumping to conclusions, and look forward to reading the followup!
I'm not stressed. I'm just terribly, terribly alert.
I can't wait to tell all my friends. They don't have a rock this big.
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it's a Martian coprolite! Now we can tell what they ate!
If you tamper with it, you'll unleash demons from hell!!!!!!!
Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you in your sleep.
It's a holographically projected camoflauge of two homeless men fighting over Moon-cheese.
I am the nightmare of nightmares.
It's a Horta.
Goddamn battlecrabs.
> What do you think the first guy to get that picture said when he looked, and then looked again, and realized that this wasn't going to be just another day on Mars?
Probably something like "Yeah yeah. Thousands of years ago... Look, Delenn, I know you have to say this for the benefit folks just tuning in, but the rest of us know already!"
Only to be smacked down with the fact that only one producer has survived a confrontation with Time-Warner and lived to tell about it.
Interesting find, but what's up with that caption?
It's a Uranium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator of course.
Heck it's even on the right planet
That's not that interesting looking - like most of the rest of Mars we've seen - except to planetologists. I find it interesting that the surface of Mars is so boring. That's because all the action is below the surface, where Mars is teeming with vampires . Once Opportunity takes the bait of probing that rock, setting off the alarms, the thin Martian air will be filled with flapping batwings. Our wisdom in sending a bloodless probe will pay off, as we'll have drawn them out into the rays of the sun, where our robot minions are a match for the weakened biters. I'll be playing the SOLASER across the face of the Red Planet this week, amplifying the beneficent rays of the Sun perhaps enough to make a difference. That is, if the vampire-controlled FAA doesn't stop me with their "laser-warning system" they've bankrolled on trumped-up terror propaganda.
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Look ! Look at the shiny rock. In the meantime the Martians will be sneaking away behind them.
By Crikey! is she angry this lil' rock! 'ave a look at that! WHOOOA!
By examining the heat shield, and the thermal damage, they can get a better feel for the physical and thermal stresses caused by a martian re entry.
'Re entry'? Um... can an object re-enter an atmosphere in which it's never been?
Damn, I forgot my close nitpicking tag. At least I didn't mention that 're-entry' is hypenated and 'Martian' is capitalized. Damn it, there I go again.
In all fairness I do agree with what the parent said. I just like funning with the ACs.
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