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Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery "for the history books"

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  • #32
    IrishGrimReaper
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    An amazing different form of rock, with a lot more rockness to it.


  • #33
    Koloman
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    IrishGrimReaper wrote: »
    An amazing different form of rock, with a lot more rockness to it.

    Dickie Rock?


  • #34
    mike65
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    The remains of Ziggy Stardust


  • #35
    irishgeo
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    omahaid wrote: »
    But we'll have to wait a few weeks to learn what the new Red Planet find may be

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/mars-rover-curiosity-discovery_n_2167207.html

    What are the chances are it's an alien? Or will it be something "boring"? I bet on the latter.

    maybe it found a face on mars


  • #36
    Wibbs
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    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    I'm going to guess they found an organic compound - say an amino acid that is one of the building blocks of life.
    If it's not the usual NASA hype, yea something like that, or a compound that could only be made as a byproduct of life processes. That would be cool.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



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  • #37
    SafeSurfer
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    All will be revealed on December 21st.

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #38
    ArtyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭ArtyM


    Bet its a flag
    "This spot reserved for viewing of Earth destruction 2012"
    Signed, The Mayans


  • #39
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    IrishGrimReaper wrote: »
    An amazing different form of rock, with a lot more rockness to it.

    I was going to say sand, but I prefer your one.

    Or a stone tablet confirming the Earth's age as 6,000 years. Signed by God.


  • #40
    mbur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    mike65 wrote: »
    The remains of Ziggy Stardust

    or one of his spiders.
    The rover team won't be ready to announce just what SAM found for several weeks, NPR reported, as scientists want to check and double-check the results. Indeed, Grotzinger confirmed to SPACE.com that the news will come out at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, which takes place Dec. 3-7 in San Francisco.

    Yeah, those guys would definitely be interested in spiders.


  • #41
    Rigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    Whale bones. And Incontrovertible proof that Jesus put them there.


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  • #42
    Rigol
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    Or two gold tablets revealing gods message for humanity ....but which nasa can't show you cause it is so written.


  • #43
    PurpleSt4in
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    someone let david bowie know


  • #44
    BorneTobyWilde
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    Thriller album

    Been confirmed, Seem alien life came to earth and stole a copy, Now located on Mars surface, Alien do exist !! They love the moon walk
    Seems they can relate


  • #45
    Canis Lupus
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    SafeSurfer wrote: »
    All will be revealed on December 21st.

    So it's santa related?


  • #46
    joydivision
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    kowloon wrote: »

    I was going to say sand, but I prefer your one.

    Or a stone tablet confirming the Earth's age as 6,000 years. Signed by God.
    It could be the weed talkin but thatd be mad wouldnt it .


  • #47
    Pilotdude5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Soviet Cosmonaut's that have been living there since 1976.


  • #48
    Hunchback
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    That the radiation levels on mars are not nearly as high as was previously thought and in fact would not be fatal to humans


  • #49
    opinion guy
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    One of these:
    http://deanetr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/2001_obelisk.jpg
    :eek:


  • #50
    JustAddWater
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    IrishGrimReaper wrote: »
    An amazing different form of rock, with a lot more rockness to it.

    It's not really a field, it just has less rocks in it than all the other places...


  • #51
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    mike65 wrote: »
    The remains of Ziggy Stardust

    No, man, they way were more far out...


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  • #52
    Capt'n Midnight
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    https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8vvi3Oqy01r5ml59o1_1280.jpg


  • #53
    mangledbadgers
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    Larry Murphy


  • #54
    AngryHippie
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    ^^^^^^^^
    Which one?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Murphy


  • #55
    Tomk1
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    History books could be rewritten, as 35 years ago, one of the Viking craft's instruments reported finding some form of life in the Mars atmosphere which was latter assumed to be contamination.
    One experiment turned positive for the detection of metabolism (current life), but based on the results of the other two experiments that failed to reveal any organic molecules in the soil, most scientists became convinced that the positive results were likely caused by non-biological chemical reactions from highly oxidizing soil conditions.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program


  • #56
    Seaneh
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    Water, or ice.


  • #57
    who the fug
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    ejmaztec wrote: »
    They've probably discovered that there's no signal on the Vodafone network.

    Is mars north of Watford? my betting is an Irish pub


  • #58
    2 stroke
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    They've found diced carrot.


  • #59
    Wibbs
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    Water, or ice.
    Well they know water is there, just not in liquid form(at the surface anyway, but may be liquid below in a high salinity state) and there's both water and carbon dioxide ice at the poles, which ebbs and flows with the Martian seasons.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #60
    pablomakaveli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Probably all those lost episodes of the Riordans that RTE "lost" years ago.


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