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Martian Photographed

Postby El Pelon » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:40 pm

Oh will the conspiracy theories fly now...

NASA Photo Shows Humanoid Figure on Mars

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Is it Bigfoot? A Tusken Raider from the first "Star Wars" movie? Or just a rock?

British newspapers went crazy Wednesday morning about an image from Mars that appears to show a humanoid figure descending a shallow hillside.

The "alien" is actually a blurry detail in a huge panoramic photograph snapped on the edge of Mars' Gusev crater by NASA's Spirit rover in early November, and posted on NASA's Web site on Jan. 2.

Naturally, it took the Photoshop skills of dedicated bloggers to find the "humanoid."


"NASA scientists have been puzzled by the peculiarly life-like image," declared the Times of London, despite the apparent fact that no one from NASA has had any comment.

The skeptical Web site BadAstronomy.com, however, scoffed, "Puhlllleeeeze. A man? It's a tiny rock only a few inches high. It's only a few feet from the rover!"

Other British papers saw the humo(u)r in the story, with the Sun theorizing that it was Detective Gene Hunt, the drunken, sexist policeman from the BBC time-traveling crime series "Life on Mars."

"It's Usama bin Laden!" declared one Times of London commenter. "All this time we thought he was in Pakistan."

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Postby Kurt » Wed Jan 23, 2008 4:35 pm

Its bigfoot's cousin.

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Postby flipflop » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:14 pm

Hoax. Next

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Postby denise » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:34 pm

Kurt wrote:Its bigfoot's cousin.


you gotta go with what you know, Kurt, or at least the most obvious answer so i think i'm gonna have to go with the Virgin Mary on this one.

the Vatican should develop a space program so they can investigate this most recent siting.

i'll bet they could come up with some really outlandish spacesuits and the headgear would be to die for.
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Postby coldharvest » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:48 pm

flipflop wrote:Hoax.

Do you think?
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Postby Chimborazo » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:48 pm

Looks like Jesus from where I'm sitting.
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Postby Woodsman » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:48 pm

COLD---------> on to the tin foil hat brigade....?
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Postby coldharvest » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:52 pm

Woodsman wrote:COLD---------> on to the tin foil hat brigade....?

I would but as much as I don't believe it I can't prove it's not.
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Postby SRR » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:47 pm

They`ve obviously been faking the Mars landings too.
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Postby kilroy » Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:51 pm

BadAstronomy.com wrote:It's only a few feet from the rover!"


ah, so the martians are incredibly tiny humanoids, eh?

Kurt wrote:Its bigfoot's cousin.

their strides do look remarkably similar.
when they ask how you feeling
you tell em you feeling like something important died screaming
you tell em you feeling like something even more important arrived breathing
something you should probably try feeding
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Postby flipflop » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:37 am

coldharvest wrote:
flipflop wrote:Hoax.

Do you think?


Somebody's having a laugh with us. On the telly news last night they showed the full-sized picture as taken from the robot ranger - it give the scale of the 'martian' as being a few inches tall.

Wait a minute, it's a fooking leprachaun, next there'll be a fooking Irish pub up there!

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Postby Caliban » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:07 pm

flipflop wrote:
coldharvest wrote:
flipflop wrote:Hoax.

Do you think?


Somebody's having a laugh with us. On the telly news last night they showed the full-sized picture as taken from the robot ranger - it give the scale of the 'martian' as being a few inches tall.

Wait a minute, it's a fooking leprachaun, next there'll be a fooking Irish pub up there!
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Postby coldharvest » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:41 pm

Caliban wrote:
flipflop wrote:
coldharvest wrote:
flipflop wrote:Hoax.

Do you think?


Somebody's having a laugh with us. On the telly news last night they showed the full-sized picture as taken from the robot ranger - it give the scale of the 'martian' as being a few inches tall.

Wait a minute, it's a fooking leprachaun, next there'll be a fooking Irish pub up there!
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top marks there Caliban.
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Postby Woodsman » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:10 pm

scott me up, beamie!
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Postby Jäeger » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:18 pm

Somebody's having a laugh with us. On the telly news last night they showed the full-sized picture as taken from the robot ranger - it give the scale of the 'martian' as being a few inches tall.


Few inches tall? Well then they shouldn't present as much of an obstacle as those pesky indians. On to Mars!

A geologist mate of mine says its nothing more than a strata of metamorphic rock.

Denise:
the Vatican should develop a space program so they can investigate this most recent siting.


They might, but would that mean that they have to concede that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth? :)
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