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Mars Rover Takes 'Sunday Drive' Across Red Planet
Reuters ^ | Tue, Jan 20, 2004 | Dan Whitcomb

Posted on 01/20/2004 7:50:43 AM PST by presidio9

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1 posted on 01/20/2004 7:50:44 AM PST by presidio9
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Somewhere, in the bowels of The Mighty Red Planet, NASA probes found the origins of the Howard Dean carbon-based life form.
2 posted on 01/20/2004 7:55:40 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Iowa Headline - Kerry, Firefighters Hose Howard Dean!)
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They should have sent a metal detector and a shovel with that thing just for curiosity.
3 posted on 01/20/2004 7:56:17 AM PST by m1-lightning (Weapons of deterrence do not deter terrorists; people of deterrence do.)
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You know, I support Mars exploration but to talk about taking pictures of rocks in such an excited fashion is not quite normal to me.
4 posted on 01/20/2004 7:57:44 AM PST by GulliverSwift (The problem with Clark isn't just that he's insane, it's also that he's a complete liar.)
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ya know...since the crater was a lake bed...it could be a shark's tooth.....
5 posted on 01/20/2004 8:00:57 AM PST by ken5050
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To: GulliverSwift
Reminds me of an old Simpsons episode where Homer is watching a newscaster talk about an upcoming space launch:

Tom: It's a lovely day for a launch, here, live at Cape Canaveral, at
the lower end of the Florida Peninsula, and the purpose of
today's mission is truly, really electrifying.

Man 2: That's correct, Tom. The lion's share of this flight will be
devoted to the study of the effects of weightlessness on tiny
screws.

Tom: Unbelievable, and just imagine the logistics of weightlessness.
And of course, this could have literally millions of applications
here on Earth -- everything from watchmaking to watch repair.

Homer: Boring. [tries to switch channels, but the batteries fall from the remote control] No! The batteries!

Tom: Now let's look at the crew a little.

Man 2: They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed "the Three
Musketeers". Heh heh heh --

Tom: And we laugh legitimately. There's a mathematician, a different
_kind_ of mathematician, and a statistician.
6 posted on 01/20/2004 8:07:27 AM PST by presidio9 (Hello America! Hello Freedom-man!)
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LOL! My sentiments exactly. Wasn't that the episode where the ants get loose in the shuttle and Kent Brockman thinks they're coming to take over the world?

I realize that NASA feels a need to justify itself even though it is one of the few deserving gubmint programs, but to get so excited over some rock that looks like dog poop...

7 posted on 01/20/2004 8:13:09 AM PST by GulliverSwift (The problem with Clark isn't just that he's insane, it's also that he's a complete liar.)
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Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
8 posted on 01/20/2004 8:17:38 AM PST by presidio9 (HAIL ANTS!)
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To: GulliverSwift
Don't forget the foil head that made the discovery of the new pyramids possible
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/images/670800.GIF
9 posted on 01/20/2004 8:18:27 AM PST by Truth666
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Zardoz!
10 posted on 01/20/2004 9:19:42 AM PST by Vroomfondel
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Others also seem interested...............

11 posted on 01/20/2004 9:57:33 AM PST by Elsie (When the avalanche starts... it's too late for the pebbles to vote....)
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To: GulliverSwift
to talk about taking pictures of rocks in such an excited fashion

Why do you suppose that piece of rock is undercut? You'd think the dust and wind would wear away the exposed surface, but it looks like the shielded surface has been eaten away.

12 posted on 01/20/2004 10:00:16 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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Yeah, but was it Sunday on Mars?
13 posted on 01/20/2004 10:01:10 AM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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was it Sunday on Mars?

Dealing with the Martian calendar would be harsh. Something like dealing with metric when one has been raised on English measure.

14 posted on 01/20/2004 10:05:36 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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That's not a meteor. That's a big pile of frozen sh!t!
What? N-no. That's a meteor. It fell from the sky.
I'm sure it did, cause it fell from an airplane. See the peanut there?
Maybe it's space peanut.
Nope, that's a big ball of frozen poopy.
15 posted on 01/20/2004 10:07:15 AM PST by New Horizon
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I was just thinking that looks a lot like what I've seen in a cow pasture before.
16 posted on 01/20/2004 10:21:42 AM PST by ChefKeith (NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
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So, what's with the square hole in that rock.

17 posted on 01/20/2004 10:22:21 AM PST by Bloodclot
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Turn that flat rock over and see if something crawls out. Most of the rocks seem to be very small. Like peanuts. Maybe even smaller.
18 posted on 01/20/2004 10:28:48 AM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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It looks like the nose Woody Allen tried to clone in Sleeper.
19 posted on 01/20/2004 11:37:06 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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So, what's with the square hole in that rock.

And why does it look like pertrified wood?

20 posted on 01/20/2004 11:43:35 AM PST by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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