Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

npr.org ^ | Nov. 20, 2012 | Joe Palca

[muawiyah]

most likely it’s something more like a cigarette butt than simple chemistry

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The Rover found Jimmy Hoffa’s body.

[Bigtigermike]

They found that U.S. flag that Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee said Neil Armstrong had planted on Mars?

[Kickass Conservative]

Obama’s College Transcripts or Biden’s brain.

[Windflier]

Hard to read this any other way, except that the rover’s instruments have indicated irrefutable evidence for past or present life on Mars.

Even if it’s only microbial, it’s the gateway to a new paradigm.

[FrankR]

Obama’s birth certificate?

[Bigtigermike]

They found A E I O U and sometimes Y

[brewcrew]

In other words, nothing.

Why even say anything until you're ready to say something? Drama queens.

[faithhopecharity]

The news from Mars is “earthshaking?!” (Maybe they found Immanuel Velikovsky up there?)

[vladimir998]

They didn’t find a damn thing up there that will change anything of any real/practical/everyday importance here.

[albionin]

I would not be a bit surprised.

[doc1019]

A chemical analyst that could possibly indicate that there was life on Mars at some time in history? Or not.

Must be budget time over at NASA. Startling new discovery that will probably amount to nothing. We get these discoveries every year around budget time.

[al baby]

They found a beeber like device

[blueunicorn6]

I’ll bet they found a rock. NASA finds more rocks than Charlie Brown finds in his Halloween bag.

[molson209]

Martian Latrine ?

[albionin]

You don’t think the existence of life on another planet is a significant discovery? I think if it’s true it will be one of the most important discoveries in history. Some will greet it with excitement and some with dread.

[dragnet2]

Reading the comments, it proves once again, there are many here on earth, the "flat earth society" if you will, feel their self importance with the universe revolving around earth, is being threatened, with others demanding answers now, regardless of the need to study and interpret the data.

Fascinating.

[editor-surveyor]

If there is life on Mars, it came from Earth anyway.

violent eruptions at the beginning of the Genesis judgment sent jets of water into orbit, creating the comets, and there is no reason not to believe that some of that water would have hit other planets, or moons.

[Fzob]

They found John Boehner’s spine?