Wood found on Mars? Not Photoshoped - off the nasa website.

Nasa.gov ^

[Next_Time_NJ]

now im not a betting man, but i know landrovers and there space caps are not made of wood. This clearly looks like a wooden plank to me. Unless someone hacked Nasa.gov's website and put up a photoshop'ed photo, this looks kinda odd.

[506trooper]

"WHY would she send me a picture of a bunch of carrots?"It's not the gift, it's the thought behind it.

Seriesly, you should feel left out, everybody who is somebody, or not, got a FReepmail spanking....and it stung....or not.....and we promised not to do it again......or not......

Oh! the humanity!

[506trooper]

"please note: I sent a copy to the Admin Moderator. Serious here... I'm an amateur astronomer and this just irratates the H#LL out of me."

The picture or the thread?

If it's the picture, I suspect that's why the thread disintegrated. Most of us don't have the experience to make a valid call on this object, but the fact NASA and the MSM didn't make a "BIG DEAL" out of it, caused the skeptics among us to blow it off.

If it's the silly stuff on the thread, it's certainly no worse than the "never ending thread".

[woofie]

Calling Buffalo Head - come out, come out, wherever you are.

I wouldnt hold your breath

[Hi Heels]

Think it just makes that little nasty teethened thing see better..... ew. Jeez, I hate that thing. ick.

[Next_Time_NJ]

This is a valid picture linked off Nasa's website. If you think its total BS please tell them to delete it out of there picture directory. Dont blame me. What you are looking at is a real photo.

[bedolido]

I've gone tot the sight and it just displays the one picture. no words explaining. no next page. no link to return or go to. it's a joke.

if it was real... this would be major. as an amateur astronomer I have checked all known sites for any verification. there is NONE!

nice joke. but pure crap.

[Next_Time_NJ]

CLICK HERE AND VIEW THE PIC ON THE WEBSITE

Now take your eyes and look at your address bar.. see nasa.gov?

Marsrovers.jpl <-- subdomain
Nasa.gov <-- Domain name

This picture is hosted on Nasa.gov's website.

[Next_Time_NJ]

If it is a joke, they did it. LINK TO THE MAIN WEBSITE

[cabojoe]

Perhaps you should try to refute it as I have done instead of crying to the mods like a lost puppy. And perhaps the humor of wood on mars is lost on you. I offer 12 bucks to keep the thread.

[cabojoe]

If you have a humor ping list please add me...lol.

[bedolido]

YOU ARE CORRECT. PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGY. I WAS WRONG! It is a REAL picture.

This cylindrical-projection view combines several frames from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover acquired these frames during its 115th martian day, or "sol," in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars, on May 21, 2004. The rover was near the edge of "Endurance Crater," which dominates the right half of this view. The crater is about 130 meters (about 430 feet) in diameter.

24-May-2004 Near 'Endurance' on Sol 115

[506trooper]

" I offer 12 bucks to keep the thread."

Glad you outbid me....thought I was going to be out some series bucks for a moment.

[paulat]

How do you know it is actually wood? Maybe it just LOOKS like wood.

...they're building a deck on the Rover....

[HereInTheHeartland]

Looks like a railroad tie. Martians must of had a great rail system before Martian global warming hit.

[dr_pat]

You made me look. Now what?

[cubreporter]

Hah, Hah, Hah. Good response. :)

[RebelTex]

"I wouldnt hold your breath"

Shoot - looks like Buffalo Head doesn't want to play.

Guess the Viking Kitties will have to find fresh food on other threads.

Rats!

;^D

[RebelTex]

"If you have a humor ping list please add me...lol."

hmmm - never had a ping list. Guess I'll have to start one.

OK, you're at the top of my new list. (Hope I can remember where I put it, and to use it sometime)

;^D

[1L]

Is that anywhere near where the astronauts put the American flag when they went there? </Shiela Jackson Lee OFF>

[fire_eye]

I think he just came by and "Crop-Dusted" us and then ran. (anyone who's been listening to Laura Ingraham recently knows what I mean, and I won't explain.)