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    Haha!! Brilliant van, from this day forth, we shall call her 'intrigue'.

    The chicks will think it's a perfume.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    If you landed in a desert area on Earth and looked at 20 rocks it would be a million to 1 that you would find a fossil so I would guess that any find will be chemical.
    cant rattle off tim minchin's quote on 1 in 64 million chances happening all the time , but basically it implies that there is a shit load going on and they happen all the time ...
    Tho funnier than that
    But that thought alone makes this shit exciting .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seshmeister View Post
    on Earth
    We're not in Kansas anymore, toto.

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    We should pay props to opportunity, too. The hq Holden of mars rovers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_rover

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    Hope they announce this Friday!
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    I never knew how long opportunity had been operating that's pretty cool that it just kept going and going .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nickdfresh View Post
    Snow on Mars...
    Carbonic snow??? Oh shit! The Cassadines are MARTIANS!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by vandeleur View Post
    I never knew how long opportunity had been operating that's pretty cool that it just kept going and going .
    Yeah, they ought to rename it the Energizer Bunny.
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    Interesting...
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    Cue crazy conspiracy stories

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    they found a book, huge excitement. they dusted off the cover, it was hagar's....

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    Quote Originally Posted by PETE'S BROTHER View Post
    they found a book, huge excitement. they dusted off the cover, it was hagar's....
    And even worse, it was a Cliff's Notes version that amounted to exactly three pages repeating the words "I invented electricity, I have achieved far more than any other musician alive or dead, I am a genius-level businessman and the sun shines directly out of my bunghole" over and over again.
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    They made a mountain out of a molehill.

    Curiosity did make a big discovery on Mars, one that had the world speculating about the potential discovery of "organics" on the Red Planet. There's something there all right -- but it's little more than a pile of scientifically relevant sand, experts from the space agency said Monday.

    During initial tests, the Curiosity team found hints of complex chemicals and simple organic molecules: evidence of chlorine, sulfur and water in Mars dirt studied by its onboard laboratory, as well as organic compounds containing carbon, the building block of life. But the space agency must now verify that these organics didn’t come from Earth or elsewhere in the cosmos.

    NASA urged caution before jumping to conclusions about these complex chemicals.

    John Grotzinger, who sparked a wave of rumors two weeks ago when he said that Curiosity had a finding that was “one for the history books,” noted that “patience” is Curiosity’s middle name.

    "You have to be careful about what you say and even more careful about how you say it," he said. "I was misunderstood."

    “Organics are clearly there,” said Paul Mahaffy Principal Investigator for Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM). Determining whether or not the organics found are biological in nature is “well down the road,” Grotzinger said during the conference Monday adding that there won’t be a "hallelujah moment” and that the hype surrounding the announcement came down to a “misunderstanding.”

    The speculation began on Nov. 20, when Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger of Caltech in Pasadena told NPR “this data is gonna be one for the history books.” Grotzinger works on a team studying data from the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, an onboard chemistry lab able to identify organic compounds -- carbon-based molecules that are essentially the building blocks of life.

    Grotzinger’s enthusiasm led to wildly overblown speculation that such compounds -- as well as biological compounds, little green men, and even Jimmy Hoffa -- had been found.

    "We have a globally representative material that we have analyzed with all the instruments," Grotzinger said. "These comprehensive investigations are going to be the basis on which we make major discoveries. But we're going to have to be patient."

    "We're doing science at the speed of science in a world that goes at the speed of Instagrams."

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/...#ixzz2E5p5QQTy
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    Quote Originally Posted by ZahZoo View Post
    John Grotzinger, who sparked a wave of rumors two weeks ago when he said that Curiosity had a finding that was “one for the history books,” noted that “patience” is Curiosity’s middle name.

    "You have to be careful about what you say and even more careful about how you say it," he said. "I was misunderstood."
    Silly man.

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    New "UFO" photo :



    LINK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nickdfresh View Post
    New "UFO" photo :



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    I can see it too. It is no UFO though - a UMT at best (Unidentified Martian thingummabob).

    As usual, UFO make-believers use doubtful, unverifiable stuff for their cause...

    I like the pic a lot apart from that - those black mountains in the background make it all look like landscape from the Earth.

    In the meantime, some crackheads keep on stating a manned trip to Mars would be possible... Whatever.
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