Slashdot Mirror
Rover Curiosity Discovers Australia-Shaped Rock On Mars
astroengine writes: "NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun science operations in a new area of study nicknamed 'the Kimberly' after the Western Australian region. But in a new image uploaded to the Mars Science Laboratory raw image archive, it seems 'the Kimberly' is a little more Australian than mission managers originally thought. As spotted by @CoUdErMaNn on Twitter, Curiosity's Navcam photographed a rather interesting-looking rock formation just in front of the rover. The rock, which appears to have been formed through some erosion process, will likely fascinate geologists for some time. But at first glance the rock also appears to take the shape of Australia."
Proof that Australia exists! Your move atheists.
But no matter how I squint my eyes I can't see Australia in that rock.
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
Come on, people. Do something useful, like looking for that damned missing air liner. Looking at clouds and seeing various animals used to be a childhood past time of mine. But giving press time like this is ridiculous.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Most likely that life will be giant spiders.
Dear Slashdot,
Please consider your audience. This might be the top "science" story on Hollywood Insider, but on Slashdot it's just insulting.
Popisms.com - Connecting pop culture
Australians?
You probably mean Austrians. The people in Austria are either called Mr./Mrs Aboriginal or Mr./Mrs Convict. The guy's next door from Switzerland are called Australians.
Dont blame me for getting my topography wrong, it is about as accurate as that stone looks like Australia!
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
I can only guess that this is Australia after North Queensland has seceded off into its own banana republic
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
Looks more like Antarctica to me...
And next week the big news will be they found a rock in the shape of Justin Bieber's ass. Can we please not devote precious pixels to such inanities? It's not like browser pages grow on trees.
This would be highlight of my Australian shaped rock collection
love is just extroverted narcissism
Bonus points for the first Slashdotter who finds a Mars-shaped rock in Australia. Picture or it didn't happen.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I love humans...always seeing patterns in things that aren't there
Without you, how would we ever see jesus in a taco ? Or other places *cough* Like there *cough*
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
It's a rock! It takes a pretty stoned mind to call it Australia. And Tasmania misses out again!
There was an unknown error in the submission.
Well, I found a Mars-shaped rock in Australia.
Table-ized A.I.
If it had that feature, the resemblance would be much more striking.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The guy's next door from Switzerland are called Australians.
Shouldn't the guy's next door from Switzerland be called "the door from Switzerland that will replace the guy's current door?"
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
At a stretch, perhaps there's a passing resemblance. Personally, I think it bears more resemblance to the Millennium Falcon.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife