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NASA finds big wart on Mars landscape
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| Posted on December 5, 2014
| James Plafke
Posted on 12/06/2014 2:30:55 PM PST by BenLurkin
The textured area, located in the Athabasca region of Mars, measures in at around 1.2 miles wide, and is plopped right in the middle of a landscape of smooth lava flows. Considering the lava flow landscape, NASA scientists theorize that volcanoes played a part in the creation of the wart, offering up the possibility that lava flowed beneath a mound of ice and pushed it up the unique texture being created when the ice melted.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: mars
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That's a wart on Mars, guys -- not on Uranus. Okay?
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:30:55 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Looks just like Helen Thomas.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:31:53 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
leftovers from a pre columbian WAFFLE HOUSE ??
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:32:56 PM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: dfwgator
Don’t insult the wart. We just got there.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:33:34 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: BenLurkin
the unique texture being created when the ice melted. Aha! Global warming.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:35:35 PM PST
by
Ken H
(What happens on the internet stays on the internet.)
To: BenLurkin
Should have brought an industrial size vat of Compound W.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:35:36 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
Tell the Wart to get those snotties up here with
the our drinks.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:35:45 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s the remnants of a Martian soufflé that’s fallen.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:39:06 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: NicknamedBob; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:39:44 PM PST
by
Gefn
(Yes Virginia, I still believe in Santa Claus)
To: BenLurkin
Somewhere Mars’ mother is saying, “He never stopped picking at that damned thing. Now it’s a scar.”
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:39:51 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: BenLurkin
When I was a kid I remember being told that toads caused warts.
So here we have evidence for life on Mars--a wart caused by a giant toad. Unfortunately, probably extinct by now.
To: Gefn
A rocket full of salicylic acid and duct tape is on the way!
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:46:51 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
To: dfwgator
Well, can’t say i ever saw the two in the same room together.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:48:29 PM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
To: BenLurkin
Maybe ancient Martians worshipped warts.
To: BenLurkin
Geeez.
It is a Martian hole cover.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:50:27 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:52:50 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: dfwgator
Looks just like Helen Thomas.
Or a half dollar area of one of Hitlery’s legs.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:53:07 PM PST
by
laplata
( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: BenLurkin
Doc: “Mr. Obama...your labs came back and I’m afraid I have rather bad news. Yes, we will let Reggie know also.....”
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:55:38 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a giant old Roman coin.
To: fieldmarshaldj
An ancient coin was my first thought as well.
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posted on
12/06/2014 2:57:37 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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