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November 21, 2012

What the Heck Did Curiosity Discover on Mars?
— Ace

From @benk84's headlines, an "earth-shaking" discovery?

The Mars Science Laboratory team has hinted that they might have some big news to share soon. But like good scientists, they are waiting until they verify their results before saying anything definitive. In an interview on NPR today, MSL Principal Investigator John Grotzinger said a recent soil sample test in the SAM instrument (Sample Analysis at Mars) shows something Â‘earthshaking.Â’
Â“This data is gonna be one for the history books,Â” he said. Â“ItÂ’s looking really good.Â”
What could it be?
SAM is designed to investigate the chemical and isotopic composition of the Martian atmosphere and soil. In particular, SAM is looking for organic molecules, which is important in the search for life on Mars. Life as we know it cannot exist without organic molecules; however, they can exist without life.

It should be noted they usually mean "this will shake your world if you are a scientist who's very much up on current theory and can appreciate small bits of evidence about that, and not so much if you're a layman."

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1 GOP voters?

Posted by: dantesed at November 21, 2012 08:23 AM (lNK7t)

2 Martian porn

Posted by: Rstone at November 21, 2012 08:24 AM (NcSi2)

3 Worms.

Posted by: Greg Toombs at November 21, 2012 08:24 AM (2xLsT)

4 An empty beer can. Coors, I've heard.

Posted by: Mystery Meat at November 21, 2012 08:25 AM (kyzl0)

5 "Good science" hasn't meant waiting for confirmation and careful study since Algore got involved. Silly Mars team.

Posted by: Tesh at November 21, 2012 08:25 AM (cnjni)

6 SQUIRREL!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 21, 2012 08:26 AM (XkWWK)

7 Jimmy Hoffa?

Posted by: dantesed at November 21, 2012 08:26 AM (lNK7t)

8 I'm thinking it was Jimmy Hoffa, Obama's grades, or Obama's conscience.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 08:26 AM (Hx5uv)

9 Ace said "lay-man." Heh, heh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 21, 2012 08:27 AM (XkWWK)

10 testing

Posted by: testing at November 21, 2012 08:27 AM (xXhWA)

11 .00006 grams of Martian crap?

Posted by: maddogg at November 21, 2012 08:27 AM (OlN4e)

12 Water existed on Mars or that Life still exists there.

Posted by: william Amos at November 21, 2012 08:27 AM (ByuL8)

13 Oil. 10 trillion barrels. And residue from a wind turbine blade.

Posted by: RioBravo at November 21, 2012 08:27 AM (eEfYn)

14 It's a Mars bar wrapper.

Posted by: Little Boomer at November 21, 2012 08:28 AM (f3koQ)

It discovered a cat. But then it killed it.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at November 21, 2012 08:28 AM (SCcgT)

16 Whoa, dude! It's like the Twilight Zone.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 08:28 AM (Hx5uv)

17 Thread? Thread? Are you there?

Posted by: RioBravo at November 21, 2012 08:28 AM (eEfYn)

18 was Howard Wolowitz driving again?

Posted by: Reid at November 21, 2012 08:28 AM (221D/)

19 Looks like our long promised gun thread just got stomped on.

Posted by: Ed Anger at November 21, 2012 08:28 AM (tOkJB)

20 That Mars was actually turned into a flying space vessel by it's former inhabitants? Points if you got that reference.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at November 21, 2012 08:30 AM (NzBQO)

21 What could it be? Hmmmm. Maybe they discovered that Hispanics are natural conservatives. I hope you're feeling better today, Ace

Posted by: L is an elle at November 21, 2012 08:31 AM (0PiQ4)

22 It found the guys who framed oj?

Posted by: Navycopjoe (team LIB) at November 21, 2012 08:32 AM (CPoFy)

23 Mars spiders.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:05 PM (QupBk)

24 A dog turd. It's not the signficance of the turd itself -- I mean, at then end of the day it's just a turd. It's the IMPLICATIONS.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at November 21, 2012 12:07 PM (w41GQ)

25 Found Barry's paper trail.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 21, 2012 12:07 PM (+paCV)

26 I don't get no respect.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 21, 2012 12:08 PM (Iyg03)

27 How old is Mars?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2012 12:09 PM (5p4n9)

28 Get your ass to Mars.

Posted by: Quaid at November 21, 2012 12:09 PM (5Hk3U)

29 Hard to get excited when they are going to wait three weeks to release the info.

Posted by: rickb223 Let It Burn at November 21, 2012 12:09 PM (GFM2b)

30 I don't get no respect. That's not true. Your mother, for instance told me just last night....

Posted by: Daybrother at November 21, 2012 12:09 PM (+paCV)

31 USED CONDOMS

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 12:09 PM (3ZtZW)

32 Bill Clinton's semen

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:09 PM (XDC0v)

33 It's got to be something organic. Unless it's methane.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 21, 2012 12:10 PM (Iyg03)

34

oh, and I liked GHOST OF MARS

there I said it

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2012 12:10 PM (5p4n9)

35 The remains of a torched up Chevy Volt

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:10 PM (xCa48)

36 Bill Clinton's...stains...on an ancient Egyptian-pattern dress. Inside of a crashed flying saucer festooned with swastikas.

Posted by: Stu-22 at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (k4bdL)

37 Obama's birth certificate

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (XDC0v)

38 Carbon?

Posted by: tasker at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (r2PLg)

39 Buried monolith, I presume.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (5Hk3U)

40 Communists. On the Red Planet, of all places.

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (3ZtZW)

41
for a while there, 'scientists' were discovering "ice" on Mars every other month

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (5p4n9)

42 Jodie Fosters tampon

Posted by: TexasJew at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (lD8ju)

43 A new type of Segway.

Posted by: Ignatz D. Mouse at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (AD6Iz)

44 there I said it Dude. Except for Ice Cube being, well, Ice Cube, that movie sucked ass.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (QupBk)

45 I think by 'earthshattering' they mean 'earthshattering for a scientist.'

If you've ever met a geologist or astrologist, you know some pretty minor stuff gives these guys erections that can shatter diamonds.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (uhAkr)

46 12 Water existed on Mars or that Life still exists there.

Actually, they've already found water on Mars near the poles, IIRC. That was Phoenix's gig.

Posted by: Jishin at November 21, 2012 12:11 PM (uk04h)

47 A funny fingerprint on the camera lens that wasn't there the day before, and some slimy drool looking shit on one of the wheels.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:12 PM (xCa48)

48 They've already said the methane levels are not showing the same levels recorded earlier. It has to be organic molecules.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 21, 2012 12:12 PM (+paCV)

49 It's the remnants of a Goldwater bumper-sticker.

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:12 PM (78QmA)

50 Every time something gets hyped like this it turns out to be a big nothing burger.

Posted by: Vic at November 21, 2012 12:12 PM (YdQQY)

51 It'd be funny if it was oil.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at November 21, 2012 12:12 PM (IOSGZ)

52 Daybrother, unless they just found some.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 21, 2012 12:12 PM (Iyg03)

53 That giant bat-spider and the giant amoeba with fatso stuck inside it.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:13 PM (5Hk3U)

54 They discovered the "missing independent votes".

Posted by: Vic at November 21, 2012 12:13 PM (YdQQY)

55 They discovered a secret base of the lizard men from space who are coming to save us.

Posted by: Mars is racist at November 21, 2012 12:13 PM (Kflw4)

56 Ah, the Bat-Rat-Spider! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzkBJA-Tlxw

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:13 PM (QupBk)

57 I was just reading some of the discussion at NSF.com: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29633.750 May be the media jumping to conclusions. Lord knows that's never happened before.

Posted by: rickl at November 21, 2012 12:13 PM (zoehZ)

58 Sprockets, Spacey damn sprockets

Posted by: Cogswell at November 21, 2012 12:14 PM (a9Izx)

59 Jimmy Hoffa. Desiccated and mummified, but still recognizable.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:14 PM (xCa48)

60 Some permutation of carbon.

Posted by: tasker at November 21, 2012 12:14 PM (r2PLg)

61 Probably found another ballot box of "uncounted" votes for Al Franken. They're waiting to "verify" that Norm Coleman didn't receive any votes.

Posted by: NC Ref at November 21, 2012 12:14 PM (kf5SK)

62 Nasa is for muslim outreach.

Posted by: dingle Barry at November 21, 2012 12:14 PM (Kflw4)

63 They should just wait til Dec. 21, 2012 to tell us. The eager anticipation might quell the panic.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:14 PM (5Hk3U)

64 >>>oh, and I liked GHOST OF MARS
there I said it

Out of the closet he comes. Is the sure knowledge that we will look down upon you forevermore worth finally not hiding who you truly are and living in fear that you will be outed? Only time will tell.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:15 PM (0q2P7)

65 A bong with "Choom Gang" written on it

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:15 PM (XDC0v)

66 The space Nazi base and invasion fleet under construction. That shit on the dark side of the moon was just a decoy.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:15 PM (xCa48)

67 I bet $100 that they've found carbon 13 levels consistent with dead marine life.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 21, 2012 12:15 PM (+paCV)

68 Yawn. It'll be a vague, inconclusive "discovery" that they'll hype with a press release in another desperate ploy for more funding.

Just like nearly every other time.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at November 21, 2012 12:15 PM (SY2Kh)

69 >>>May be the media jumping to conclusions. Lord knows that's never happened before.

I've got a great idea for a novelty home game like twister!!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:16 PM (0q2P7)

70 Camel spiders

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:16 PM (XDC0v)

71 ...and a copy of "So long and thanks for all the Fish"

Posted by: Daybrother at November 21, 2012 12:16 PM (+paCV)

72 A dog turd would prove what many of us have suspected for a long time: Dog = God

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 12:16 PM (TYO2p)

73 @72 I thought the Nazi base was under Antarctica.

Posted by: velcro pants at November 21, 2012 12:17 PM (Kflw4)

74 The story seems to boil down to "scientists sure like doing stuff."

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at November 21, 2012 12:17 PM (IOSGZ)

75 A jar full of Howard Hughes' shit.

Posted by: Dang at November 21, 2012 12:17 PM (R18D0)

76 Ya--they have to be careful they aren't measuring their own contamination.

Posted by: tasker at November 21, 2012 12:17 PM (r2PLg)

77 52 It's the remnants of a Goldwater bumper-sticker.

My bumper sticker got there before I did? Sheesh -- TANJ!

Posted by: Empire1 at November 21, 2012 12:18 PM (sglxW)

78 A dead Soviet cosmonaut. They lied about all that focus on Venus shit.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:18 PM (xCa48)

79 You know what'd be cool? If they found huge gold nuggets just laying on the surface.

The next great gold rush would pave the way for space travel, just like it did the railroads years ago.

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 21, 2012 12:18 PM (Iyg03)

80 I bet $100 that they've found carbon 13 levels consistent with dead marine life.>>

Lets hope not since then the AGW cultists will start using the death of life on mars to beat us over the head.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at November 21, 2012 12:18 PM (tf9Ne)

81 Ya--they have to be careful they aren't measuring their own contamination. I've done that many times since my wife died.

Posted by: Daybrother at November 21, 2012 12:18 PM (+paCV)

82 nasa is just a bunch of lefty assholes.

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 12:19 PM (TYO2p)

83 1976: College biology. The Mars chemical tests for life were INCONCLUSIVE.

Some tests were positive. Others were negative.

I have no reason to doubt that there might have been life on Mars a billion years ago.

Posted by: Bart at November 21, 2012 12:19 PM (V70Uh)

84 A reasonable woman

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:19 PM (XDC0v)

85 Dead hooker in the trunk of a car.

Posted by: Dang at November 21, 2012 12:19 PM (R18D0)

86 66 Nasa is for muslim outreach. Then send all of the muzzies to Mars. Call it "Mars for Muzzies. A new homeland."

Posted by: rickb223 Let It Burn at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (GFM2b)

87 When are they going to send a Rover to The Face?

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (QupBk)

That mountain range it landed next to? It's gone.

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (78QmA)

89 Every sock you ever lost in the dryer wound up on Mars.

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (3ZtZW)

90 Elvis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (QKKT0)

91 They found the base that Hector will use to launch his war on the SoCons

The Fortress of Solitude

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (xCa48)

92 Kuato?

Posted by: Michael K. at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (H6VxR)

93 A vague cause for additional funding.

Posted by: Dang at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (R18D0)

94 A UAW worker with realistic expectations

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:20 PM (XDC0v)

95 nasa is just a bunch of lefty assholes.

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 04:19 PM (TYO2p)

My God, it's full of assholes!

Posted by: Dave Bowman at November 21, 2012 12:21 PM (QKKT0)

96 Mars needs women.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:21 PM (5Hk3U)

97 http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma0lqgkDfu1rd5rz4o1_1280.jpg

Posted by: BATRATSPIDER! at November 21, 2012 12:21 PM (vS9+W)

I think they found my ex-wife's last orgasm.

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:21 PM (78QmA)

99 Jimmy Hoffa's body

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at November 21, 2012 12:22 PM (V70Uh)

100 >>>College biology. The Mars chemical tests for life were INCONCLUSIVE.
Some tests were positive. Others were negative.

???

That's like doing any multi level test. All negatives does not conclusively prove no, but one positive is a very strong indication of yes.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:22 PM (0q2P7)

101 Pudding

Posted by: TexasJew at November 21, 2012 12:22 PM (lD8ju)

102 Santa Claus conquered the Martians.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:22 PM (5Hk3U)

103 Military ballots.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 21, 2012 12:22 PM (BvTwT)

104 A viable GOP presidential candidate?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (QKKT0)

105 63, 65,

OK, Mohammed's body.

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (V70Uh)

106 Squatchy

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (QKKT0)

107 A budget plan that includes tax cuts, spending increases and balances in 5 years?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (0q2P7)

108 Al Capone's vault

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (QKKT0)

109 I give you jackwagons hotassery. You give me camel spiders and batratspiders. That's why the Horde should never be given nice things.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming not nearly soon enough. at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (VtjlW)

110 Aristotles second volume of Poetics devoted to comedy?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (0q2P7)

111 oh, and I liked GHOST OF MARS
there I said it

Posted by: Soothsayer

I think you mean 'Precinct 13 IN SPACE!'

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 21, 2012 12:23 PM (ON54M)

112 Sheila Jackson Lee waving an American flag?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:24 PM (78QmA)

113 Knowing NASA they found irrefutable evidence that AGW destroyed all life on Mars.

Posted by: Vic at November 21, 2012 12:24 PM (YdQQY)

114 A conservative Democrat?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:24 PM (0q2P7)

115 John Malkovich

Posted by: BlackOrchid-StillMissingDagny at November 21, 2012 12:24 PM (J6kXj)

116 A reason to fund a mission to the moons of Jupiter, with a smartass talking computer and a defective AE35 unit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:25 PM (QKKT0)

117 I came to Mars to retire and I wanted to retire in a place where everything is different.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:25 PM (5Hk3U)

118 Earlier in the mission, while scooping soil, Curiosity discovered a bright colored object in the soil. It was obviously not part of the normal rock, sand and soil. It was initially speculated that the small object was simply debris - a piece from the lander that became displaced during the descent and landing sequence.

It would be cool if they analyzed it further and concluded that the object was, in fact, artificial and synthetic - but that it didn't come from the lander or any of its systems.

Posted by: angler at November 21, 2012 12:25 PM (SwjAj)

119 Evil Bert and his gay lover Elmo.

Posted by: OCBill at November 21, 2012 12:26 PM (rFipM)

120 They found the flag we planted? Maxine Waters will be elated.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at November 21, 2012 12:26 PM (pnnFm)

121 The jack for my 1971 Chevy pick-up?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:26 PM (78QmA)

122 Levi Johnson's pride?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:26 PM (0q2P7)

123 A perfect location for Alextopia.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:26 PM (QKKT0)

124 Well, the red aspect pretty much suggest that any "life" would have been pretty damn primitive. The land mass of earth started out red too. It took a billion years or so of tiny critters working away to transform that dead red shit into something resembling dirt.

I'm pretty sure microbe type life is pervasive anywhere in the universe where the raw materials exist for it to happen. A billion years or so gives a lot of random throws of the dice.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:27 PM (xCa48)

125 A great spot for a Palestinian state

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:27 PM (QKKT0)

126 Meggie Macs brain?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:27 PM (0q2P7)

127 wow, justice is still operational in the US:

"Piedmont city officials have fired a police officer who wrote a public urination citation to the mother of a 3-year-old who dropped his pants in the family's front yard."

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 21, 2012 12:27 PM (ON54M)

128 A Chicago Cubs pennent trophy?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:27 PM (78QmA)

129 They found a probe from Uranus?

Posted by: marvin at November 21, 2012 12:28 PM (JJ+PT)

130 Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich? Malkovich!

Posted by: Malkovich at November 21, 2012 12:28 PM (3ZtZW)

131 A budget plan that includes tax cuts, spending increases and balances in 5 years?

Dood. Now you're just talking crazy shit.,

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:28 PM (xCa48)

132

Eh. I call BS. They keep saying they've found something and what they find keeps turning out to be nothing. Now, where's Snoopy to tell me how my evil snake-handling, Bible thumping religion keeps me from believing in science?

Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 21, 2012 12:29 PM (DoZD+)

133 A viable GOP presidential candidate?
Posted by: Cicero
.........
Aww, c'mon. We all know that doesn't exist.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 21, 2012 12:29 PM (f9c2L)

134 What the Heck Did Curiosity Discover on Mars?

Conclusive evidence.

Everything in the universe is Bush's fault.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 21, 2012 12:29 PM (1PE/J)

135 The extrasolar planet discoveries give me wood. Same with when they found those ethane lakes around Titan's north pole. But every discovery on Mars is just another rehash of "canals, dude!". Yeah, we know there has been liquid water on Mars a long time back. We've known that for centuries. (It's still kinda cool, but not fapworthy.)

Posted by: boulder hobo at November 21, 2012 12:29 PM (zec/x)

136 It's methane, baby. Farts. From live shit.

Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2012 12:29 PM (q177U)

137 1976. Hmmm. I don't remember the specific chemical tests.

The positive could have been as simple as the presence of Carbon.

Don't be jumping to any conclusions here.

My favorite: Jimmy Hoffa in Al Capone's Vault.

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at November 21, 2012 12:29 PM (V70Uh)

138 A great recipe for Martian Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at November 21, 2012 12:30 PM (QKKT0)

139
Same with when they found those ethane lakes around Titan's north pole.

Not a big step from ethane to ethanol. Titan could be a major provider of moonshine.

Posted by: @PurpAv at November 21, 2012 12:31 PM (xCa48)

140 A buffet? I just love buffets.

Posted by: Meghan McCain at November 21, 2012 12:31 PM (QKKT0)

141 I'm pretty sure microbe type life is pervasive anywhere in the universe where the raw materials exist for it to happen. A billion years or so gives a lot of random throws of the dice. Posted by: @PurpAv Blasphemy! Heresy! The blog must be burned!

Posted by: Media Created GOP Dark Hooded Figures at November 21, 2012 12:31 PM (+paCV)

142 The missing left socks?

Posted by: rdbrewer at November 21, 2012 12:31 PM (Iyg03)

143 OT but that peeing story gave me quite a chill. One of my 7-year-old's many personal defects is that he is VERY quick to drop trou and pee on trees (side effect of having to go to so many practices with his sporty big sister - why no elem schools let us in bafrooms?) we have a pool and I've given up stopping him from jumping out and peeing on my azaleas. they seem to be growing fine and at least he's not pissing (? or doign it less?!?!) in the pool

Posted by: BlackOrchid-StillMissingDagny at November 21, 2012 12:32 PM (J6kXj)

144 Michael Moore's stool sample?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:32 PM (78QmA)

145 They found traces of BS on the surface of Mars. This lends credence to the theory that Unions caused the loss of O2 and H2O and all life some time before the 50's by demanding "their fair share".

Posted by: dfbaskwill at November 21, 2012 12:32 PM (ndlFj)

146 They finally found the real killer!

Posted by: OJ Simpson at November 21, 2012 12:32 PM (kf5SK)

147 Attempt no landing on Europa.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:32 PM (QupBk)

148 What the Heck Did Curiosity Discover on Mars?

Jimmy Hoffa?

Posted by: YIKES! at November 21, 2012 12:33 PM (1PE/J)

149
Helen Thomas DNA found on Mars.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 21, 2012 12:33 PM (lDWQr)

150 The Kwisatz Haderach?

Posted by: Catmman at November 21, 2012 12:34 PM (OvRHg)

151
Bigfoot was conceived on Mars, and his mother is Prymatt Conehead from Remulac.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 21, 2012 12:35 PM (lDWQr)

152 Is Helen Thomas related to Danny Thomas?

If yes, is she Angela Cartwright's aunt?

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at November 21, 2012 12:35 PM (V70Uh)

153 A Lockheed Electra 10E with extended range tanks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 12:35 PM (QKKT0)

154 A free, successful, happy socialist society?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:35 PM (0q2P7)

155 The sequal to "Total Recall"?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:36 PM (78QmA)

156 >>>Is Helen Thomas related to Danny Thomas? And what is she doing on his glass coffee table?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 21, 2012 12:36 PM (5Hk3U)

157

Posted by: BlackOrchid-StillMissingDagny at November 21, 2012 04:32 PM (J6kXj)

One of the brothers at age four went out to play on the front porch once wearing a pair of boots and nothing else. I think he was out there for quite awhile before my Mom noticed what he was doing...

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 21, 2012 12:36 PM (LQjA9)

158 The sequal to "Total Recall"? Get your ass to Australia.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:37 PM (QupBk)

159 I have a friend on the MS Lab Team who shared it with me. He's probably going to kill me for this. It is Earth shaking. http://flic.kr/p/dv9qYt

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at November 21, 2012 12:38 PM (4136b)

160 >>>It is Earth shaking.

How did I get caught? I'm smarter than that dammit!

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at November 21, 2012 12:39 PM (0q2P7)

161 All the lost socks?

Posted by: phoenixgirl headed somewhere west at November 21, 2012 12:39 PM (JV8wA)

162 Nate Silver sucks dicks?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 21, 2012 12:39 PM (wR+pz)

163 Dear Leader's testicles?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:39 PM (78QmA)

164 Are there any incompetents on the Mars team? And if not, why not?

Posted by: andycanuck at November 21, 2012 12:39 PM (nkiQM)

165 I have a friend on the MS Lab Team who shared it with me. He's probably going to kill me for this. It is Earth shaking. http://flic.kr/p/dv9qYt Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at November 21, 2012 04:38 PM (4136b) OMG POST OF THE YEAR ALERT!

Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2012 12:40 PM (q177U)

166 An Illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator?

Posted by: I lurk, therefore I am at November 21, 2012 12:40 PM (iFl7N)

167 "It should be noted they usually mean "this will shake your world if you are a scientist who's very much up on current theory and can appreciate small bits of evidence about that, and not so much if you're a layman."" iono!!!! maybe for things like the characterisation of type i-a supernovae progenitor systems. probably for things like particle-acceleration experiments...tho the whole cultur pretended to be pretty excited about the higgs discovery. x.X certainly for things like macroscopic non-locality. but finding things on mars? i recollect it was pretty huge news when methane was found in the atmosphere! i think anyone can understand the ramifications of finding certain organics on mars, and since the announcement came from the team administering the sample analysis instrument, what else could the analysis really be than something that folks can relate to? my guess is that they either detected some evidence for the contemporary, or more likely ancient, presence of biogenic organics or they have characterised mars' surface geology to the extent that they will claim mars either 1) was the vehicle of the assault that broke the moon off from the earth or 2) they have discovered andesitic silicates in the basalt crust similar enough to primitive earth surface geology to conjecture that mars actually was once part of earth until it, like the moon, was ejected as the result of some violent primordial collision with a larger body. any of those results -- microbial life on mars, mars crashing into earth and creating the moon, or mars perhaps once having been part of earth -- are all major announcements that would be immediately accessible to the general public.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 12:40 PM (79EF9)

168 re: 'It should be noted they usually mean "this will shake your world if you are a scientist who's very much up on current theory and can appreciate small bits of evidence about that, and not so much if you're a layman."'

And the other times, they mean, "This will blow your little Jesus-y mind because it means the odds of life existing on other planets have increased from made-up-value-X to made-up-value-X-point-oh-oh-oh-three."

And no mind is blown.

But it's added to the list of factoids that "prove" that the reason you're terrified of Science is because your little Jesus-y mind can't handle all this constant blowing.

And so you have to forgive my student loans.

Posted by: oblig. at November 21, 2012 12:40 PM (cePv8)

169 Prometheus?

Posted by: Golan Globus at November 21, 2012 12:41 PM (/1U3u)

170 This is getting curiouser and curiouser....

Posted by: Craig Poe at November 21, 2012 12:41 PM (BVkEs)

171 I have a friend on the MS Lab Team who shared it with me. He's probably going to kill me for this.

It is Earth shaking.

http://flic.kr/p/dv9qYt

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at November 21, 2012 04:38 PM (4136b)

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Ace should be damned to hell forever for posting that picture.

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:41 PM (78QmA)

172 I bet they found an amino acid. That would be really cool.

Posted by: chemjeff at November 21, 2012 12:41 PM (d/5qf)

173 A way to make Vista work on a TRS-80?

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 21, 2012 12:42 PM (wR+pz)

174 SERIOUSLY @ 173

Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2012 12:42 PM (q177U)

175
the missing billions Corzine stole from his clients?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2012 12:43 PM (5p4n9)

176 Spock's brain?

Posted by: dantesed at November 21, 2012 12:43 PM (lNK7t)

177 A Sonic Screwdriver?

Posted by: caelestissurf at November 21, 2012 12:44 PM (I+2F1)

178 This is getting curiouser and curiouser....

Posted by: Craig Poe at November 21, 2012 04:41 PM (BVkEs)

Then we must take this opportunity explore further.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 21, 2012 12:44 PM (1PE/J)

179 Shouldn't that be mars-shattering?

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 21, 2012 12:45 PM (rzTDZ)

180
I bet they found an amino acid.

Stupamine?

(stoop-ah-meen, for all of you in Rio Linda)

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2012 12:45 PM (5p4n9)

181
Oh yeah, they discovered Sandra Fluke's virginity?

Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 21, 2012 12:45 PM (lDWQr)

182 Ozone Man Al Gore parked there in his algae and unicorn fart powered eco-friendly spaceship.

Posted by: Thanksgiving is racist at November 21, 2012 12:45 PM (Kflw4)

183 Jesse Jr's insanity defense?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:45 PM (78QmA)

184 The terminus of the interplanetary railroad?

Posted by: president o'bumbles at November 21, 2012 12:45 PM (nkiQM)

185 Space rabies.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 21, 2012 12:46 PM (ccXZP)

186
Amazingly, they discovered Preznit Ogabe's birth certificate.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 21, 2012 12:47 PM (lDWQr)

187
A "Kilroy was here" graffiti.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 21, 2012 12:47 PM (1PE/J)

188

They found the top of the statue of liberty...

Those Damn Apes!

Posted by: airandee at November 21, 2012 12:47 PM (9GHCK)

189
They found the balance of Hillary's Rose Law Firm billing records.

Posted by: Doctor Fish at November 21, 2012 12:48 PM (lDWQr)

190 "And the other times, they mean, "This will blow your little Jesus-y mind because it means the odds of life existing on other planets have increased from made-up-value-X to made-up-value-X-point-oh-oh-oh-three." " uhm. the indisputable discovery of martian biogenics would increase the odds of life existing on other planets to 100.0000000000000000%. @.@ supposing they rather found amino acids or other prebiotic "building blocks", the announcement wouldn't be quite so groundbreaking, because we've detected complex prebiotic organics such as, specifically, homochiral amino acids, on a large number of other celestial bodies already. so if it were related to extraterrestrial life, it would have to be something stronger than that...something that evinced microbial life on mars in the past or, improbably, contemporaneously. i personally think it would be Really Fucking Badass if it turned out that mars smashed into earth in the early days of promordial accretion to knock off the moon, tho...

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 12:49 PM (79EF9)

191 I bet it's a Rick Astley CD.

Posted by: Kansas Gman at November 21, 2012 12:49 PM (u4a/I)

192 A dog whistle. A racist one, at that.

Posted by: Resist We Much at November 21, 2012 12:50 PM (y5bPZ)

193

They just discovered that their just outside Needles California.

Posted by: YIKES! at November 21, 2012 12:50 PM (1PE/J)

194 Points by Jack Taylor's teammates.

Posted by: dantesed at November 21, 2012 12:50 PM (lNK7t)

195 My original face.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at November 21, 2012 12:50 PM (y5bPZ)

196 Waldo.

Posted by: johnd01 at November 21, 2012 12:51 PM (nwiCZ)

197 NASA: We have found nothing. NOTHING! THIS FUCKING PLANET IS DEADER THAN NANCY PELOSI'S COOTER.

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 12:51 PM (78QmA)

198 193 Shouldn't that be mars-shattering?

Where's my Mars-shattering Kaboom?!

Posted by: ConservativeMonster at November 21, 2012 12:51 PM (GPIWm)

199 The exit sign from the sound stage.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 12:52 PM (QupBk)

200 173
Fahhhhbulous

Posted by: RioBravo at November 21, 2012 12:52 PM (eEfYn)

201 The Spice!!11!!!

Posted by: baron harkonnen at November 21, 2012 12:53 PM (nkiQM)

202 We found an E. coli bacterium with 100% homology to modern-day earth E. coli DNA! This clearly means that bacteria evolved on Mars and migrated to earth. Because, what are the odds that the DNA sequences would be the same? What do you mean, "contamination"?

Posted by: Dante at November 21, 2012 12:54 PM (aLg9U)

203 You said "homology"

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 12:56 PM (XDC0v)

204 It is Graffiti that says "Jesus was a Hoax."

Posted by: Jehu at November 21, 2012 12:57 PM (cSD32)

205 Marvin.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at November 21, 2012 12:57 PM (lOmbq)

206 The stuff that was in Al Capone's vault

Posted by: Jehu at November 21, 2012 01:00 PM (cSD32)

207 they havent found jack shit and theyre not going to find jack shit. we're alone, get used to it. the more we explore, the more we're gonna find this out until we realize were unique in this universe.

Posted by: laughing at neck braces at November 21, 2012 01:00 PM (nVqtU)

208 Linsey Graham's testosterone?

Posted by: SC Republican at November 21, 2012 01:00 PM (y5bPZ)

209 212 meet 219

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 21, 2012 01:00 PM (rzTDZ)

210 "What do you mean, "contamination"?" nasa isn't that stupid. this exact same group retracted the methane claims upon further and more rigorous investigation. and they weren't so breathless about the immensity of the discovery of methane...which would have been a tremendous discovery in its own right. there's got to be a "there" there, or the group's faces are going to end up so red that they can successfully run for senate in MA.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 01:00 PM (79EF9)

211 Yeah, if they found that Mars was actually Thea, that would be -- yeah, incredible. The mind fuckin' reels. Implications of chemistry and mineralogy of the landmass, distribution of elements. Yeah, if they could say "This looks like Thea" then it's big.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at November 21, 2012 01:01 PM (IOSGZ)

212 i personally think it would be Really Fucking Badass if it turned out that mars smashed into earth in the early days of promordial accretion to knock off the moon, tho...

I believe the current theory is that it was a gigantic meteor, and its landing site is the current Gulf of Mexico.

Posted by: Jishin at November 21, 2012 01:03 PM (uk04h)

213 They found a chick with three boobs.

Posted by: Brendan at November 21, 2012 01:03 PM (2jQGY)

214 It found gold, baby!

Posted by: Craig Poe at November 21, 2012 01:03 PM (BVkEs)

215 "we're alone, get used to it. the more we explore, the more we're gonna find this out until we realize were unique in this universe." that's utterly preposterous. as intelligent life -- as the creators and users of highly technical tools and the interpreters of symbols -- we may be alone. in any event, we're alone enough in our corner of the universe that it's reasonable to think of ourselves as "how the universe thinks"...we're some pretty badass monkeys. nevertheless, the speed at which primitive, prokaryotic microbial life appeared on earth once conditions allowed for its emergence, coupled with the incredible variety of extremophilic lifeforms on this very planet that thrive in the some of the most hostile conditions imaginable, it is inconceivable that bacteria, or something similar to bacteria, has not arisen elsewhere in the vast universe of 70 sextillion stars or more. utterly inconceivable.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 01:05 PM (79EF9)

216 obamaphones.

Posted by: Buffalobob at November 21, 2012 01:06 PM (x+7qA)

217 Monkeys throwing bones at a monolith thingy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 01:07 PM (QKKT0)

218 "I believe the current theory is that it was a gigantic meteor, and its landing site is the current Gulf of Mexico." i believe you're confusing the chicxulub impact, which is conjectured to have been involved with the massive cretaceous extinction event that spelt the end of dinosaur hegemony on earth. that crater is not nearly large enough to have been responsible for the ejection of such a large body as the moon from the primitive protoplanetary earth. indeed, the size of the vehicle for the ejection of the moon is usually short-handed as "mars-size", so it's not too much of a stretch to hope for some evidence that the "mars-size" body was, in fact mars itself. of course, the theories for the accretion of mars in its current orbital position from the protoplanetary disk re pretty solid tmk, but a boy can hope.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 01:09 PM (79EF9)

219 Jimi ray: then -- they must be quiet. Lifeforms are quiet because they are dead, or hiding. They hide from predators. Just sayin'. The reason we haven't heard anything is the same reason that people hide in caves. It's cause there's bears out there in the stars, and they eat people that make noise. Fermi no longer paradoxed. There's lions in the bushes.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at November 21, 2012 01:10 PM (IOSGZ)

220 I think its an old chevy truck sitting on concrete blocks. Just waiting on confirmation of the year and model.

Posted by: T-DUBYAH-D at November 21, 2012 01:11 PM (WX65W)

221 "Yeah, if they found that Mars was actually Thea, that would be -- yeah, incredible. " oh, thanks!!!! i forgot about the name "thea" :3 good catch! i know it's a stretch, given the pretty solid models on the formation of mars in current orbital position, but i just happen to think it would be Really Fucking Badass is all. it's okay for science-types to dream, too :3

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 01:11 PM (79EF9)

222

Curiosity message: "Shit just got real - huge black monolith asking am I from planet with beautiful rings and immortal mermaid life-forms it created, or from planet #3 it used as waste dump which may require re-sanitizing."

Posted by: sherlock at November 21, 2012 01:12 PM (U+goV)

223 "Jimi ray: then -- they must be quiet. Lifeforms are quiet because they are dead, or hiding. They hide from predators." i know the radio spectrum is empty. i know fermi's question has been resolved with a resounding "nowhere" by decades of unfulfilled SETI searches. but microbial life will never be complex enough to harness the electromagnetic force -- and it is electromagnetic signals that we search for when seeking evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence. even here on earth, which has harboured primitive life for billions of years, our own radio horizon only entends 70-light years away from the planet...we've only been leaching electromagnetic radiation since the 1940's. so even intelligent life somewhere in the galaxy undergoing their own SETI might think that they, too, are uniquely intelligent, just because we haven't been sufficiently advanced long enough to be detectable. that's not to say i think there are other forms of intelligent life in the galaxy. i'm just offering that, even for intelligent life, it may be difficult to detect simply because of the timescales involved in evolution to a sufficiently intelligent species to be able to harness the electromagnetic force...and that is to say nothing of the essential undetectability of more primitive lifeforms! multicellular life is likely extremely rare. but microbes? it's difficult for me to believe that there aren't numerous worlds harbouring microbial life in this very milky way, to say nothing of the entire visible universe. @.@

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 01:17 PM (79EF9)

224 remember when the mysterious "Ginger" changed the world?

Posted by: Baldy at November 21, 2012 01:19 PM (opS9C)

225 I saw some science writer make the case that he hoped that microbial life would be rare - because that would suggest that we'd be facing less competition for resources in the long run. There's no reason to expect alien intelligences to not be predatory. In fact, we should see several different expansion/life cycle responses to interstellar propagation. Some might be migratory/hibernating, others might be more like ants, digging in and building/terraforming. Still more would definitely eat the others. Where there is life, there's always something with teeth.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at November 21, 2012 01:22 PM (IOSGZ)

226 158 you beat me to it, LOL!

Posted by: PJ at November 21, 2012 01:25 PM (ZWaLo)

227 "Where there is life, there's always something with teeth." certainly intelligent life would present a problem for the long-term survival of humanity. life is inherently selfish; in a universe of limitted resources -- especially those precious to the continued survival of life -- the fewer non-cooperative (or at least genetically dissimilar) competitors, the better! i don't want to find alien intelligence. i'm quite happy with the idea that we are "how the universe thinks". i am quite happy thinking that we humans are the only species in the entire universe who have literally peered into its origins...or at least nearly. but i think discounting the idea of microbial life somewhere in the seventy-sextillionT-star strong universe is a bit short-sighted. it seems utterly improbabilistic that there be no microbial life (or something similar!) on at least one, and most like billions, of the lonely rocks orbiting one of those 70 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 stars o.o

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 01:30 PM (79EF9)

228 A thank-you note to George Bush from the American people

Posted by: DAve at November 21, 2012 01:37 PM (XDC0v)

229 I'll let the cat out of the bag... The Martian Rover picked up Bill Clinton's DNA....

Posted by: MoeRon at November 21, 2012 01:44 PM (yWDpP)

230 The rover found its own wreckage.

Posted by: eman at November 21, 2012 01:46 PM (bWwMZ)

231 Maybe it found enantomerically enriched amino acids. An excellent sign of life. Not proof, for sure, but a big red arrow.

Posted by: eman at November 21, 2012 01:49 PM (bWwMZ)

232 They'd be pretty stupid not to send a chiral GC column to Mars.

Posted by: eman at November 21, 2012 01:50 PM (bWwMZ)

233 There could be Alien civilizations that only occupy regions far from a parent star. They would live in artificial habitats and glean what they need in materials and energy from the natural sources out there; comets, planetoids, asteroids, etc. They avoid the inner system like the plague. Our Solar System could be colonized already and only our infantile perspective thinks it can't be so.

Posted by: eman at November 21, 2012 01:55 PM (bWwMZ)

234 Space herpes.

Posted by: Catmman at November 21, 2012 02:21 PM (OvRHg)

235 Life existing on Mars (now or in the past) does not prove that it originated there. Mars and Earth drop meteorites on each other, so there could be cross contamination. There's no telling which of the two planets may have originated life. The sun may have gone through an early, hot phase where the earth was less hospitable to the formation of life than Mars. Who knows?

Mars' orbit is fairly eccentric, so the notion that it is the body that crashed into the proto-earth to form the moon sounds possible. But then Mars would originally have been larger than it is. Still, the large north-south asymmetry of Mars points to something big having happened. But I think they would need more than a single sample to draw this conclusion.

It's probably something organic. Methane, by the way, is organic. It opens up the possibility of Mars cows.

Posted by: Agnes Day at November 21, 2012 03:05 PM (0OudH)

236 An ancient Shadow base.

Posted by: joncelli at November 21, 2012 03:15 PM (CWlPF)

237 Me.

Posted by: Zombie Amelia Earhart at November 21, 2012 03:25 PM (riIMi)

238 Almost dried up mud puddle - visible in photo.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at November 21, 2012 03:34 PM (JtyGg)

239 It found a Twinkie and it was still good. It found the two Viking Landers on a nearby hilltop challenging it to a battle to the death.

Posted by: eman at November 21, 2012 03:35 PM (bWwMZ)

240 that's utterly preposterous. "---jimi ray ---no it's not utterly preposterous, get out of your little fantasy sci-fi land. it's so arrogant to try and believe without a doubt (and no evidence) that there is life out there, cuz you know, the universe is big and all that **eye roll** but when someone suggests that maybe we're alone, you scoff at the idea...it's stupid. here's what we know= WE'RE IT. here's what we've known for decades= WE'RE IT. here's what we're gonna realize far into the future= WE'RE IT. get used to the idearrrrr. you're prolly one of those dummies that believed in UFOs....you know...the UFO photos circa 1950-80s with the exhaust fumes and headlights....

Posted by: laughing at neck braces at November 21, 2012 03:36 PM (nVqtU)

241 They found cocaine. The Cartels just announced a space program.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at November 21, 2012 03:37 PM (7N4Vf)

242 you will be ass-stimulated! you will be ass-stimulated!

Posted by: rimi jay at November 21, 2012 03:40 PM (nkiQM)

243 hahaha i bet jimi has a story for errrrything. akks him about bigfoot, and youll get a story of how he was all up in the woods and seen some big furry thing shrieking thru the weeds. akks him about UFOs and the UFO has high and low beams, turn signals, and manned by 10 little green aliens. akks him if he's ever seen a 'goat-sucker' and well.....

Posted by: laughing at neck braces at November 21, 2012 03:44 PM (nVqtU)

244
From NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications Bob Jacobs ‏(@bnjacobs) via Twitter:

There's out of control parroting regarding Mars Curiosity. The "one for the history books" refers to the mission, not any one new discovery.

/thread

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 21, 2012 04:28 PM (kdS6q)

245 None of you troglodytes understand the scientific method. So, once again class, here it is: Step one: We, scientists, of which you are not one, understand all there is to know about anything there is to know anything about. Step two: We, scientists, of which you are not one, can assert the most ridiculous conclusions based on little or no actual evidence and you must believe every word without question. Step three: You must give us all the money we want and never question what we do with it. Step four: Return to step one. Understand? Probably not; but, no one does except we, scientists, of which you are not one. P.S. It goes without saying that anyone who questions anything we say about anything is merely a Bible thumping, in bred, hourly wage, Christmas tree decorating, bone head.

Posted by: Professor D.U. Fus, Nobel Laureate in Scientific Stuff at November 21, 2012 04:33 PM (HL/PU)

246 Memo to NASA Re: Life on Mars Not your idea. Cease and desist immediately. You will hear from my lawyers.

Posted by: H. G. Wells at November 21, 2012 04:37 PM (HL/PU)

247 Yeah, I remember the last time 'NASA' said they had a life changing story.. It was that overhyped, and to our shame and HORROR, giggling woman scientist with the sloppy hypothesis about arsenic being a possible non-carbon basis for life. Yeah... oops. She was laughed at in peer review. She thought she was golden, afterall she was featured on the science channel in between their shows on bigfoot and ancient aliens.

EPIC FAIL

This one? Its probably a confirmation of the 70's Viking probe's finding of organic material on mars.. yeah, at the time they were 100% sure they found it then too. Either that or they've got the go-ahead for that Islamic outreach mission. Nobody will be earth shaken. If they found life, it would have leaked out immediately. Everyone wants to be the first to find alien life

Posted by: At the end of my rope at November 21, 2012 04:39 PM (YAGzS)

248 nasa has spent millions on radar equip to try an hear for anything they can pin down as being transmitted by alien life forms they have spent millions on huge telescopes which can see towards the end of the known universe they have spent millions on spacecraffff that theyve blown out into the vast unknown to you know...take cool pics and explore weve found ZERO LIFE out there. ZEROOOOOOOO and thats not going to change. no matter how many times they act superior and point to a faint star in the sky exclaiming= THATS A FUCKIN PLANET OUT THERE FULL OF FUCKING WATERRRRRRR shut up nasa, youre idiots. there are no aliens. jus build a craft that can scoop up some resources we could here on earfff and get it back to us pronto. ...morons.

Posted by: laughing at neck braces at November 21, 2012 04:45 PM (nVqtU)

249 They found the long lost democrat senate budget - goddammit, we knew they could!!!

Posted by: Sam M'Fin' Shephard at November 21, 2012 05:25 PM (IQYEh)

250 Aww, HL/PU didn't get into the college he wanted, because of affirmative action and liberalism and his two digit IQ, but mostly his two digit IQ.

Posted by: boulder hobo at November 21, 2012 08:00 PM (e0fQD)

251 Science is for Liberals. Whatever it finds, God put it there 6000 years ago.

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2012 11:35 PM (4Uj6e)

252

Laughing - you really think that the fact we haven't found life somewhere else in the universe (yet) is "proof" that there is none? Do you think we've kinda looked everywhere, like looking for your keys for twenty minutes in a large house?

And thinking there might after be, all this time, makes NASA scientists "morons"?

just, wow. I bet you were one who was REALLY surpirsed on election day.

Posted by: JT at November 21, 2012 11:41 PM (4Uj6e)

253 NASA found Obama's college transcripts on Mars. The Democrat Machine in Chicago sent them in that Mars probe that NASA "lost track of" while it was on approach a few years back.

Posted by: Bad Science at November 22, 2012 01:09 PM (31kIq)

254 Protheans.

Posted by: CmdrShprd at November 22, 2012 05:25 PM (Rk+K2)

255 I think they see Candlejac...........

Posted by: Moot at November 22, 2012 05:27 PM (Rk+K2)

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