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Are the gods playing marbles on Mars?
New Scientist ^ | 6/11/13 | Victoria Jaggard

Posted on 06/11/2013 7:21:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 06/11/2013 7:21:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping!


2 posted on 06/11/2013 7:21:47 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

CO2 dry ice sliding down a hill ?


3 posted on 06/11/2013 7:23:14 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: American Constitutionalist

Nicely done! :-)


4 posted on 06/11/2013 7:26:46 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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5 posted on 06/11/2013 7:30:02 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: American Constitutionalist
good try but the object didn't evaporate and is still at the bottom of the trail... if they take another picture and it's gone then it could very well be, if it's still there, prolly not
6 posted on 06/11/2013 7:32:26 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: LibWhacker
Since it was perched on a hill, I'd say gravity had something to do with it.

Now... if it rolled across a flat surface, then I would question how that happened.

Happens here on Earth.

(Racetrack Playa in Death Valley)


7 posted on 06/11/2013 7:36:09 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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Have they figured out how those move yet?


8 posted on 06/11/2013 7:38:10 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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To: Chode

This puzzle isn’t really hard. It was on an incline, and Mars has seismic activity, just as every planetary body does, including our moon.


9 posted on 06/11/2013 7:38:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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those ALWAYS amazed me...
10 posted on 06/11/2013 7:42:50 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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It was the mars rat ....
11 posted on 06/11/2013 7:43:06 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The theory is that moisture in the air condenses at night, on the surface, and capillary action causes it to be sucked between the rock and the dry ground underneath, giving the rock a ‘lift’ off the ground suspended on a small pad of water. Then... the wind moves the almost resistance free rock across the ‘racetrack’.


12 posted on 06/11/2013 7:43:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: Chode

Could it be simply a huge rock fallen down a hill ?


13 posted on 06/11/2013 7:44:50 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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Will Smith dragging a alien in his parachute ?
14 posted on 06/11/2013 7:46:11 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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15 posted on 06/11/2013 7:46:38 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: American Constitutionalist
bingo... 8^)
16 posted on 06/11/2013 7:49:11 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Have they figured out how those move yet?

Yes.

17 posted on 06/11/2013 7:49:25 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 ("The British are Coming (to confiscate weapons)" - Paul Revere (We know how that ended))
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To: wonkowasright
Martian Golf Course.


18 posted on 06/11/2013 7:52:25 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: JoeProBono

I love you for your pictures. You are so special, don’t stop those pictures.


19 posted on 06/11/2013 8:06:51 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.)
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20 posted on 06/11/2013 8:31:53 PM PDT by schm0e ("we are in the midst of a coup.")
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