Holy cow. You may be right. And that stuff never decomposes, so it could've been there for a million years.

The NatGeo show was interesting. For those who missed it, it re-airs Thursday and Friday early evening.

Thanks man, just set the dvr.

I was really surprised by it's size.

That's what SHE said.

Bigger than expected, or smaller? :D

I'm taking the 5th, ... bastard.

What we've done on Mars, and what's next:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/11/te...html?hpt=hp_c3

Wow.

lol

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...76298365_n.jpg

that is a severed humanlike finger for sure. It's proof of some badass mofo aliens.

Stupid mother ****ers.

THIS :mad:

HOLY...........!!!

http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/.../MarsHDpic.jpg

And God said " Let there be rovers"

So the thing hasn't broken down yet? Still going strong I trust?

Pretty cool

http://www.360cities.net/image/curio...00,24.46,100.5

:eek::clap:

It'd be cooler if it was one of those sites that let people take turns driving it. :)

New 360 degree shot.

http://i.imgur.com/NrEP4.jpg

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Uhhhhhgggg......

That video may have set science back 500 years.

No worries, it's a comedy troupe, not any actual scientists or NASA employees.

Uh oh, do we have an oil leak?

I assume there's something nifty in this pic we should be looking at?

maybe its a fish looking thing or an oil slick?

Not sure if any of you guys are redditors, but the team controlling the rover are doing an AMA (basically, a completely open Q&A session) right now over there:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...s_on_the_mars/

(Look for the username highlighted in a blue circle for the team's responses. It takes a while to get used to reddit's comment thread layout.)

Sorry, no. That's a color-enhanced shot of Curiosity from MRO's HiRISE camera.

Is it the dot in the middle of the black area?

oh okay...

Yes, inside the blue-black area.

Is Curiosity's pen leaking or something? I hate when that happens, and you don't know it, and you look down and see that big circular blue-black stain...

Gotcha. Not exactly the cleanest landing apparently (but then - my guess is that Mars' environmental friendliness isn't exactly our highest priority).

Heh, yeah. It could have been a lot worse, of course.

Interesting factoid I hadn't considered:

LOL... Wow.... how odd would that be?

That was left by Cassel after he shit his pants when he realized he was on Mars.

:spock:

Curiosity "drills" first hole in Mars rock:

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NP...-NASA-MARS.JPG

I had a dream last night that I woke up to hear on the news about them finding a whole lake 6" under the Gale crater surface.

another face on mars. this one is a gray.

The next mission is already in the works.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/n...,4288375.story

I would have preferred a trip to Titan or Europa.

If you tilt your head to the right, it's obvious that that is a cow skull.

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

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Man you have good eyes. Obviously the big-foot stepped on him. :eek:

that bigfoot track kinda looks like Dory from Finding Nemo.

Can we get a color enhancement?

Looks like we've been duped all these years...

What an incredibly boring mission to follow up this one with, compared to the one that would have explored Titan.

Of course they should have a budget that allows them to do both, and more.

Europa is perhaps the best chance at "divergent" life in the solar system.

There's a good chance Mars could have once given life to Earth or Earth to Mars but Europa is completely isolated.

Much of Jupiter is still just theory.

Most gas giants aren't this far out and most habitable planets aren't this far in.

Keep exploring. The big question is and will always be " why are we so special?"

I think (if we don't kill each other) we're only 2 or 3 hundred years from this moment.

The ability to pass by and explore is not dangerous. But if we ever manage to gain the ability to inhabit we could be dangerous.

Once we can dominate and leave the solar system the galactic Carl Peterson will tell us to Shut teh fug up and STFD...

Agreed....remakes are never as good as the original.

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:deevee:

Human kind is a virus, we spread consume and destroy. I hate to see what will happen when we finally do colonize and inhabit other worlds.

There goes the neighborhood. :doh!:

They are going to test drive Curiosity today, BTW. Not a long drive, about 30 feet or so and then reverse.

doin donuts

I love the blaster cannon at the right. step off martians.

http://local.twitpicproxy.com/web19/...51718-full.jpg

So that's what happened to Matrian life. They must have wrecked themselves before they checked themselves.

Curiosity's wheel tracks:

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/201...rs_620x350.jpg

Wow:

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Interesting. The surface at the landing spot was nice, fluffy Martian sand, until the landing thrusters blew it away to reveal all those rocks.

Here's a better video (I think):

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Mars is kinda boring now... Cant we go somewhere else?

Titan and Europa were mentioned earlier. Titan is like a premordial earth extremely volcanic and Europa (Scientists think) there's a liquid ocean underneath. Tidal gravity causing friction with Jupiter may give Europa enough warmth beyond the crust, even though it's so far from the sun for solar heat, to maybe have evolved life (at least as we know it).

Ganymede could be another option, molten core creating a magnetic field, 3/4 the size of mars and Galileo caught images of ice geysers shooting up and falling back as snow. Liquid water there too? Could be :shrug:

Do they have to leave a copy of their driver's license and credit card with the sales rep while they test drive? I'd hate to be the person who hits a boulder and flips it. "Oops. Sorry. Uh... do I have to pay for that?"

Too bad any landing we would attempt would be destroyed by a large, black obelisk.

:D 1x4x9 square rooted = 1x2x3

I have to admit, I've been enjoying the heck out of the video and pics taken by Curiosity.

What?

I have no idea how it works, but there is a theory that life could have transferred between the two planets. I don't remember if it was back in the planet-forming phase or if it's something more recent.

Its true. I think its called Transpermia if I remember correctly.

Its facinating to read and think about and probably true. We are all Martians, just like we are all Africans.

The idea is that when an asteroid or something hits the planet, sometimes it hits hard enough to knock pieces of the planet out of the atmosphere. And those pieces have microbes and other micro-organisms that live in the little cracks and fissures, which can withstand the heat of the collision and the timeless vacuum of space. And then thousands if not millions of years later, those same rocks, now meteoroids themselves, land on another planet. And those little micro-organisms find themselves on a new planet in which the atmosphere doesn't kill them. Slowly over billions of years, the micro-organisms evolve into stuff.

They thought they found proof of something similar a while back in a martian meteorite. They thought it was a fossil of a martian micro-organism. But it turned out not to be. But the theory is actually sound.

We are the result of an ancient alien scraping dog shit from the sole of his boot while exploring Earth.

The illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...1lyMK0UwfxFLUV

ROFL