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NASA: We Still Don't Know What Those Shiny Particles On Mars Are, But They're Not From The Rover
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| 10-18-2012
| Dina Spector
Posted on 10/18/2012 3:53:07 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
10/18/2012 3:53:12 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
10/18/2012 3:55:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: blam
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posted on
10/18/2012 3:56:09 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
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posted on
10/18/2012 3:56:29 PM PDT
by
blam
To: cripplecreek
Possibly a precious metal or perhaps something we don’t even have on Earth. That sand looks moist.. Clumpy.
To: cripplecreek
The rocks there look like substantially deteriorated and corroded nickel-iron meteor debris. The 2% content which is gold should be visible.
Earth has a much more active atmosphere, and tectonic forces at work, so we rarely see a full meteor in situ.
Gold mining on Mars should be fairly basic ~ walk around and pick up flecks. This stuff won't even be eroded down to gold flour ~ but it won't be nuggets either since it won't have passed through a bacterial mat that would expell it in nodules.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:00:15 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: blam; KevinDavis
OMG we have discovered the final resting place of an old Soviet lander that lost contact before it reached Mars???
Whaddaya mean Far-fetched??
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:04:29 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: blam
I hope the Mars Rover does not get so distracted by the shiny object that it forgets to vote on Nov. 6.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:07:51 PM PDT
by
taterjay
To: blam
White dust and rocks on Mars? It can clearly mean one thing....
...Mars had hookers and blow long before Earth did.
To: blam
To: blam
Hey! Rake those out! Other people use this course, too!
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:13:43 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
That sand looks moist.. Clumpy. That's because it's coated with a thin layer of light, sweet crude. Doesn't evaporate at the low pressure and temperature on the Martian surface.
Oops. Maybe I shouldn't have said that.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:13:51 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: blam
But of course....that shiny piece is unobtainium.
Gasp, Hollywood is right again.
How foolish of us to think they are all as stupid as they act.
To: Steely Tom
Oil, platinum, gold and nickel...Boy O Boy!
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:21:13 PM PDT
by
blam
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:21:18 PM PDT
by
Rio
(Tempis Fugit.)
To: blam
I think they're chunks of that engine that Don Garlits blew up in ‘72.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:22:37 PM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: Steely Tom
Oil, platinum, gold and nickel...Boy O Boy!
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:23:16 PM PDT
by
blam
To: taterjay
I hope the Mars Rover does not get so distracted by the shiny object that it forgets to vote on Nov. 6. It was registered to vote in Chicago, and has already voted via absentee ballot twice.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:25:04 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: usconservative
After posting, I began to think this is an Obama ploy, because he wants to distract the remaining NASA employees from voting against him.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:30:42 PM PDT
by
taterjay
To: blam
Parts of the baseball Albert Pujols hit in Houston in October 2005.
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posted on
10/18/2012 4:54:44 PM PDT
by
lurk
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