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NASA Knows How Mars Got a Jelly Doughnut

Posted by timothy on from the elvis-is-alive-and-well-and-living-on-mars dept.

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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  1. Where are the cops? by the_B0fh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Donuts without cops? No way!

    1. Re:Where are the cops? by icebike · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually better coverage is at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

      Where they have all the Pictures, and the foot prints of the cops involved.

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  2. Re:Amazing what all of the Republicans... by khallow · · Score: 3

    So you have any other protips on how we can politicize a rock on Mars?

  3. Re:Amazing what all of the Republicans... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm offended by your overgeneralization. Sometimes different people believe the same thing.

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  4. What, a lead like that and... by rusty0101 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...no one observes that the Jelly Doughnut rock on mars was where the complaints about Beta might have been thrown?

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  5. So in other words... by Al+Al+Cool+J · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

    dun dun dun

  6. Nothing will convince conspiracy theorists. by Oligonicella · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They will never relinquish their paranoias, regardless of logic or evidence. It's in their nature.