Journal of Cosmology Contributor Sues NASA To Investigate Mars "Donut"

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Journal of Cosmology Contributor Sues NASA To Investigate Mars "Donut"

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:27AM from the chewbacca-hungers-for-donut-fungus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Rhawn Joseph, a self-described astrobiologist involved with the infamous Journal of Cosmology, is suing NASA, demanding 100 high-resolution photos and 24 micrographs be taken of the 'donut' rock that recently appeared in front of the Opportunity rover on Mars, on the basis that it is a living organism. The remarkable full text of the complaint, which cites NASA's mineralogical analysis of the rock as evidence against it being a rock, is available to read at Popular Science." Really, the lawsuit is worth a read.

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Very funny. by ls671 · 2014-01-29 05:30 · Score: 1, Funny

Very funny, this makes my day on /.

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1. Re:Very funny. by ShanghaiBill · 2014-01-29 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Very funny, this makes my day on /.
  You won't be laughing when this guy wins his lawsuit, and we all find out that this "rock" is a piece of styrofoam knocked loose from one of the props in the back lot of Disney Studios. John Carter of Mars was filmed to provide a cover story for the Martian landscape used for the faked rover landings. There is no other plausible explanation for that movie.
2. Re:Very funny. by bob_super · 2014-01-29 06:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Actually, the fact that it was filmed on location is the only plausible explanation for its budget.
Re:Yawn... by Anne_Nonymous · 2014-01-29 05:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, he ought to be suing those incompetents down in continuity.
Thats no rock by drakesword · 2014-01-29 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

its the arm off of one of my kerbals
I am suing! by Darinbob · 2014-01-29 09:10 · Score: 3, Funny

I am suing NASA demanding 100 high resolution photos and 24 micrographs be taken of Scarlett Johansson, at various angles, from all sides, and from above, and under appropriate lighting conditions which minimize glare, on the basis that this is a living organism.