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Update - The rock abrasion tool on Spirit drilled the first human-made hole in a rock on Mars . . .
NASA - JPL ^ | 02-07-2004 | NASA/JPL

Posted on 02/07/2004 3:34:33 PM PST by Phil V.

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41 posted on 02/07/2004 4:41:52 PM PST by mikrofon (® Mars, Incorporated)
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To: Spiff
LOL...so THAT'S where those freaky things come from!!!
42 posted on 02/07/2004 4:42:45 PM PST by Ophiucus
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To: alnitak; Phil V.
Thank you so much! Great explanation and I think I actually understood it.
43 posted on 02/07/2004 4:46:52 PM PST by lonevoice (Some things have to be believed to be seen)
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To: Chris Talk
Compare this to the spheres in Costa Rica, those were never explained.

After going the "what?" spheres...I had to do the google search...and get a freakin Area51 site as the top result.

*Sigh* so disappointing.

44 posted on 02/07/2004 4:49:34 PM PST by Ophiucus
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To: Phil V.
It's Saddam's WMDs!
45 posted on 02/07/2004 4:54:22 PM PST by Jim Noble (Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
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To: Chris Talk
Aha!! Found something on those silly Costa Rican spheres - plus how they were made.

Spheres!

Soooooo....maybe really small Martian Indians (Mardians??) were busy making really small stone spheres....

46 posted on 02/07/2004 5:01:17 PM PST by Ophiucus
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To: Ophiucus
Yeah, they had to be made real miniature and light to be able to ship up to Mars against Earth's gravity.

Same basic reason so few Viking artifacts in Massachusetts, those ships were little and were packed with people and cattle and junk like that.

//tongue in cheek//
47 posted on 02/07/2004 5:19:24 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will one day be.)
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To: Phil V.
How much did that hole cost?
48 posted on 02/07/2004 5:20:06 PM PST by WhiteGuy (Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
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To: Chris Talk
Same basic reason so few Viking artifacts in Massachusetts, those ships were little and were packed with people and cattle and junk like that.

Argh! Vikings in Massachusetts!! Maybe that explains Teddy Kennedy....

49 posted on 02/07/2004 5:33:48 PM PST by Ophiucus
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To: Arkinsaw
Actually, what about that NASA Mars probe that smacked into Mars because someone mistranslated English units into metric units?
50 posted on 02/07/2004 5:43:19 PM PST by RonF
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To: WhiteGuy
How much did that hole cost?

Almost as much as the "Big Dig"?
51 posted on 02/07/2004 5:43:27 PM PST by tet68
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To: Dog
They look like snail eggs.
53 posted on 02/07/2004 6:10:46 PM PST by gitmo (Who is John Galt?)
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To: lonevoice
It's also a bandwidth issue. They can get more quantity and quality without transmitting color as well.
54 posted on 02/07/2004 6:12:39 PM PST by gitmo (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Phil V.
That's funny, when they used the RAT, this is what I thought happened.
55 posted on 02/07/2004 6:19:59 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." GWB 1/20/04)
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To: Phil V.
"The RAT performed beyond our expectations,"

Suppose we have drills and drillbits down cold by now; with 100 years of practice.

56 posted on 02/07/2004 6:29:52 PM PST by Swanks
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To: Dog
>>Martian Mushrooms?

Little Green Man scat.
57 posted on 02/07/2004 6:31:39 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (The only good news for Democrats is they could save $$ by switching to Geico.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
"You have to love these JPL folks."

And I turned down a chance to work in the research labs there in 1968!!!

58 posted on 02/07/2004 6:32:13 PM PST by lawdude (Liberalism: A failure every time it is tried!)
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To: WhiteGuy
How much did that hole cost?

A whole heckuva lot less than if you had sent a man to Mars to do it!

Less in dollars -- and in risk to human life...

59 posted on 02/07/2004 7:45:25 PM PST by TXnMA (No Longer!!! -- and glad to be back home (and warm) in God's Country!!)
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To: johnny7
That's unusual depth of field for that scale.

They're not using a $29.95 Vivitar!

60 posted on 02/07/2004 7:52:10 PM PST by night reader
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