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NASA Knows How Mars Got a Jelly Doughnut
The Associated Press reports that the mysterious "jelly doughnut" shaped rock spotted by the Opportunity rover on Mars wasn't put there by aliens or by mysterious forces of Mars weather. Instead, the NASA has a simple explanation: one of the rover's larger wheels "broke it off a larger rock and then kicked it into the field of view." Of course, they would say that just to head off a lawsuit demanding an investigation into the real reasons.
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So you have any other protips on how we can politicize a rock on Mars?
I'm offended by your overgeneralization. Sometimes different people believe the same thing.
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...no one observes that the Jelly Doughnut rock on mars was where the complaints about Beta might have been thrown?
You never know...
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people subject to views outside of logic, may switch between them at random. Also very few if any religions explicitly say anything against life on other plannets, if christianity is what we are talking about, it says nothing to oppose life on other plannets, it simply never mentions the concept at all. Just as it never mentions kangaroos, koala bears or the american continent. If a spacecraft were to land on earth, the only thing christians would see different is in spite of us being clearly technologically inferior to them, christians would still hold to the idea that humans are made in the image of god, and thus the aliens must have been created by god to serve us in some way.
I think that's an extraordinary claim. Are there any photos showing this rock in the path of the rover before it clipped it? The unusual composition of this rock bears investigating, and suggests some other origin (like a meteor impact). Why is the composition inconsistent with other rocks? Because it's not from there.
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NASA are saying it is not a man-made object or the result of natural phenomena, but rather that it was put there by a probe from another planet!
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The NSA has been tracking everyone's data, and especially things going on in foreign sand-filled landscapes.
What's that, the title was NASA knows, not NSA knows?
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Show the before & after pictures of where this rock came from.
If I didn't have absolutely NOTHING to do, I wouldn't be here.
... NASA has determined that people working for the Journal of Cosmology have gone off their meds....again.
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I hope the Judge orders and investigation.
Besides, I'm sure there's someone else we could sue out there.
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I tried a "jelly" doughnut when I was in America. Nowhere near as nice as jam ones in the UK. :-)
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are coming-up with. Considering their religion says aliens don't exist, why are so many of those people claiming they do and that they constructed this rock? They already proved themselves liars with the huge number of them that claim to have been abducted by aliens. Those people are nuts, and it is sickening how they try to make everything about politics.
Religion makes no statement as to the existence of aliens or not. If you are talking about texts related to Jews, Christians and Muslims, their books are about the relationship between their God and humans. No more and no less.
As for them being nuts and trying to inject politics into everything -- you were the one who interjected politics and religion into an otherwise neutral subject.
I wouldn't worry about him too much, he is obviously a second rate hack. A true pro would have blamed Bush for the rock.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Everyone knows Mars is just the Venusian's Area 51. It's just a remnant of some secret high tech project.
They will never relinquish their paranoias, regardless of logic or evidence. It's in their nature.
like Duncan Donuts made a commercial about donuts on Mars? Such a great opportunity (yes that's a pun).
Naming every 1" stone chip on Mars is going to take a long time. Of course that is one way to keep the funding going :)
Actually, if its the rover, then its definitely the Aliens who put it there.
Bush was just continuing Clinton's policies.
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Politicians and their non sequiturs. What's Dwayne Johnson have to do with this?
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