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Martian Rocks Land In Morocco
Hugh Pickens writes "Scientists have confirmed chemically a recent and rare invasion from Mars with 15 pounds of fresh Martian rocks falling in Morocco last July. A special committee of meteorite experts, which includes some NASA scientists, confirmed the test results Tuesday certifying that the meteorites recently collected came from Mars. The biggest rock weighs more than 2 pounds. Astronomers think that millions of years ago something big smashed into Mars that sent fragments hurtling through the solar system. Occasionally, some fall on Earth."
Ok, someone had to say it.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
"Like Webster's Dictionary They're Morocco Bound..."
... are a million to one, but still, they come!
are a million to one, he said.
phobos grunt I guess... probably pours salt into the wounds of the russian space program.
GreatBunzinni has been posting anonymous accusations listing a whole bunch of people as being part of some marketing campaign for Microsoft. He has accidentally outed himself as this anonymous poster, and half the accounts he lists don't even post pro-Microsoft rhetoric. In fact, the theme of the accounts seems to be that they have been critical of Google at some point in the past.
That's not the problem. The problem is that moderators gave him +5 Informative and are regularly modding down these people, even for legitimate posts. Metamoderation is supposed to address this problem and filter out the bad moderators, but clearly it's not working.
This "shill" crap that has been flying around lately has to stop It's restricting certain viewpoints from participating on the site and creating an echo chamber.
Why we doubt climate scientists...
Seriously, how the heck do they know these rocks came from Mars? Why couldn't they be from some asteroid that passed by and hit the moon. I mean the moon is full of craters, so I assume it's been hit once or twice. And I'm sure a good hit could have sent such debris into long orbits.
This is like me finding a pair of old eye glasses and exclaiming they must have been Ben Franklins since he wore eye glasses.
They put one heck of a throwing arm on those Rovers.
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THAT'S NO ROCK!!!
(Ok, rest of you reply with some good stuff - I've got nothing)
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
K'Breel Jr. addresses the Council:
"Council Members, Friends, Countrymen, Dad: A few Solar orbits ago, we set about on a secret project on the feasibility of attacking the Blue World, using a plan ("Robert Heinlein - The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress") devised by the Blue Worlders themselves. Today I am happy to report that our plan is a smashing success; we have dropped a few test rocks on a place called Morocco. The next phase of our plan involves more rocks, and much heavier rocks, aimed at all of the Blue World's space launching facilities! Glory to Mars! Glory to the Council! Glory to K'Breel!"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/
Had to be done... I for one welcome our Martian rock throwing overlords...
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Okay, how do they know that the "big smash" happened millions of years ago? Why not a few thousand years ago? Nobody documented it, anyway.
It is completely improbable that a stone fell off Mars (maybe one of the Martians through it at earth), what is far more probable is the meteor has been traveling through space from origin unknown.
In Soviet Russia, Mars lands on you.
Table-ized A.I.
When something rather big hits a rocky planet, such as Earth, or Mars, it ejects quite a bit of rock up into the air. If the impact was hard enough, some of that rock can even be hurtled clear out of orbit.
I've heard it suggested that even Olympus Mons, with its enormous size, could have ejected immeasurable amounts of Martian rock material into outer space itself when it was still an active volcano as well.
It's chemical composition suggests a Martian origin. It's possible it came from somewhere else, but not terribly likely.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
...I can't wait to put them in some wine.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
"Are we going to Addis Abbaba, Mr. Luthor?"
I'll bet if we took blood samples we could confirm chemically that somebody's been smoking the ganj. Exactly how in the hell do they know that these rocks that fell from the sky were specifically from Mars? Why not the moon? Venus? Saturn? Shoe-Levy? Oh so sick of these people with their pronouncement of speculation as science fact. I think I should start smoking the ganj.
-- L8R, guitardood
must have been really bummed out they did not find them...
Rick B.
Now, the stuff we want to look at, will eventually just come to us.
"Martian Rocks Land In Morocco", yup. The little green dude totally killed opening for the Black Keys.
Ambiguous headlines, gotta love 'em.
So are we martians ?
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The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. ....But still they come....
This opens the door to the possibility that rocks from Earth could likewise end up on Mars, rocks containing organic material. I'm in no way saying this is proof of that, only that examining how rocks from Mars make it to Earth, could point us to understanding trans planetary pollination. Knowing how often things like this happen would be a correlation to the probability of life on Mars.
Mars is mostly CO2 and argon measured from Viking landerss. This is pretty distinctive for the solar system.
That does it! We HAVE to invade Mars if we're going to defeat these phantoms! Blow it all up!
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
The entrance wound is Hellas Basin and the exit wound is in the neighborhood of Olympus Mons/Tharsis neighborhood.
Deimos is prolly some mars guts, and the projectile is still inside.
Let's see that in CSI graphics!
Plus ca change, plus c'est les memes choses.
Mysterious metal ball from space falls in Namibia
December 22nd, 2011
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/22/mysterious-metal-ball-from-space-falls-in-namibia/
Other similar cases not in the DIA documents were reported in Argentina and Mexico:
The ‘Space Balls’ – A case of mistaken identity
Dec 27, 2011
http://www.openminds.tv/the-space-balls-a-case-of-mistaken-identity-854/
The Mysterious Case of Two Spheres Falling to Earth in Australia and Brazil
March 28, 2008
http://www.universetoday.com/13387/the-mysterious-case-of-two-spheres-falling-to-earth-in-australia-and-brazil/