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Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars
MrSeb writes "A few hundred million miles away on the surface of the Red Planet, Mars rover Curiosity has photographed an unidentified, shiny, metallic object. Now, before you get too excited, the most likely explanation is that bright object is part of the rover that has fallen off — or perhaps some debris from MSL Curiosity's landing on Mars, nine weeks ago. There is the distinct possibility, however, that this object is actually native to Mars, which would be far more exciting. It could be the tip of a larger object, or perhaps some kind of exotic, metallic Martian pebble (a piece of metal ore, perhaps). Close-up imagery will now be captured and analyzed, and within the next few days we should know if it's simply a piece of Curiosity — or something a whole lot more exciting."
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Dear NASA: Would you please return it to me? I dropped it there when Iwas playing fetch with my astro-dog but since that vacation in 1982, what with the economy inthe shitter and my extreme insanity and all, Italian conspiracies, etc., etc., I had pretty much given upon retrieving it.
Please mail my battery-actuated vibrating metal thing object to:
Bob S.
445 Gimlet Road
Cornhole, OH
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Proof that many of today's scientists are from the MTV generation:
"Ooooh! Shiny thing!" :)
My God, Its full of Stars!
They finally found the Prothean ruin!
that's where I left them
Pretty sure it's just Occam's Razor - Curiosity probaby knocked it off the sink after shaving this morning...
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
It's probably just the top of a boring monolith made of some blackish metal. Nothing to see here; move along.
0x or or snor perron?!
If some tells you to bite it, don't.
I'm expecting an earth-shattering kaboom!
The greater good.
It might be part of a uranium q-38 explosive space modulator!!!!
Today the Council of Elders reports the exposure of a fifth column of traitors that has apparently existed within the intelligence directorate of world's security services. The Council neither confirms nor denies the contents of the following diplomatic transmission leaked to the blue world by rebellious spies.
12GLENELG0062: If it's actually the trigger for a trap door beneath the rover, for example, or the last remaining relic of the Martian race, then NASA obviously needs to handle it with care.
When a senior military official, apparently intoxicated after having submersed himself in the poisonous liquid that covers two thirds of the enemy world's surface, exclaimed "IT'S A TRAP", K'Breel had the Admiral's gelsacs bronzed and disposed of in the general vicinity of the invader. The Council reminds all citizens that the planetary metals recycling programme operates on a strict basis of "No deposit, no return."
Which is just bloody great. Now we have to work out how to change an engine mounting from 150 million miles away.
It's the Shadows! Stop Clark before it's too late!
In honor of Columbus Day. We'll bring whisky and typhus.
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Well, we still have more whales, right?
Do you think the bacteria would have time to evolve to be able to spread beyond the corpse before their initial food supply was depleted?
Seems like they'd evolve to more efficiently eat the whale, and then be screwed when it was gone.
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For fuck's sake, there is such a thing as being too cynical.
I doubt that.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
there is at least one model for oil/natural gas that could explain its creation based of geological processes rather then biological material breaking down
There is at least one model for child birth that involves avian delivery.
If bad Sci-Fi tought me anything, it's that you just launch a few nukes into the core and it'll start turning. So, nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Learn to love Alaska
I'm not an ecologist, but I suspect you'd need more than a single whale too bootstrap an ecosystem on an otherwise inhospitable planet.
I'll see your whale and raise you a bowl of petunias. Is that enough?
Ezekiel 23:20
It would shut the Libertarians up once and for all.
If there were enough energy in the universe to do that, we'd have trivial faster than c travel.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Whale Uplift: U r doing it wrong.
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