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06 December 2006

What has NASA found on Mars? You have approximately 42 minutes to make your bets.
post by: cmonkey at: 12:19 | 37 comments
A way out of Iraq?
posted by danf 06 December | 12:22
I think I might know. I heard a pretty bizarre rumor in the past day or two.
posted by getoffmylawn 06 December | 12:24
Well, what, goml?
posted by Specklet 06 December | 12:26
The last dodo?
posted by black bile 06 December | 12:28
Aviation Week claims it's water.

But I think it's really a humanoid skull.
posted by cmonkey 06 December | 12:28
My keys?
posted by trondant 06 December | 12:29
Well, Dr. Philip Christensen is a geologist, so I'm guessing...silicon-based organisms?
posted by muddgirl 06 December | 12:30
A way out of Iraq?

Nope, a way to bring more troops in ... they found the WMDs.
posted by danostuporstar 06 December | 12:31
Definite signs of alien life? Bacteria? Mould? Fungi?
posted by LunaticFringe 06 December | 12:32
They probably found the Transformers on Mars.
posted by Zack_Replica 06 December | 12:33
I heard a rumor that they found a humanoid skull or fragments thereof.
posted by getoffmylawn 06 December | 12:34
photo here. I didn't realize it was from back in May though. I thought it was really recent.
posted by getoffmylawn 06 December | 12:38
I'm guessing water. A skull would be cool, but I just don't buy it. (I mean, they would have found microbes and shit by now if there was advanced life there...)
posted by Specklet 06 December | 12:39
All the missing socks!
posted by taz 06 December | 12:40
Damnit, Z_R, you beat me to the punchline.
posted by Frisbee Girl 06 December | 12:40
For me, it is these image tampering applications partially obscuring this object that gives much more credence to this being something someone did not want us to be able to adequately recognize.

Hahaha. I love crackpots.

Humans are a poor design. Evolution would do things quite differently on another planet.
posted by cmonkey 06 December | 12:42
James Kim?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 06 December | 12:42
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posted by felix betachat 06 December | 12:43
Bors Borka?
posted by Divine_Wino 06 December | 12:43
Yep, it's water.
posted by cmonkey 06 December | 13:02
I'm guessing that it's some thing that can only be detected using the I.R. sensors. Probably a geological formation. Maybe evidence of water or some kind of geothermal / volcanic activity.

Failing that, I guess a stargate.
And the bloated corpse of Richard Dean Anderson.
posted by seanyboy 06 December | 13:03
IRFH: too soon. The appropriate answer is "Jimmy Hoffa".
posted by eamondaly 06 December | 13:03
Boring! I get water at my house almost for free.
posted by eatitlive 06 December | 13:04
Cool!
posted by matildaben 06 December | 13:07
My guess was cheese. It's my guess for most things and it's mostly always wrong. I should enter more cheese quizzes, I guess.
posted by TheDonF 06 December | 13:11
Very important.
posted by interrobang 06 December | 13:12
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posted by jonmc 06 December | 13:13
Where there's water, there's life. And cheese. Cheese = life too.
posted by Specklet 06 December | 13:13
One caveat: it's red, evil water.
posted by Hellbient 06 December | 13:17
The NewScientist says: they found the Viking Explorer units from 1976.

yeah, I know. I am a killjoy.
posted by getoffmylawn 06 December | 13:28
On the plus side, they found it after dragging the lake.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 06 December | 13:30
No, you're not a killjoy, goml, because they really did find surface water on Mars. During the press conference they showed pictures.

≡ Click to see image ≡

"5-10 swimming pools worth of water".
posted by cmonkey 06 December | 13:34
gully!
posted by Divine_Wino 06 December | 13:42
Kim Stanley Robinson must be mighty pleased with himself. Listening to this after having read his Mars series, there are moments when it's hard to stifle a, "well, of course!"
posted by Frisbee Girl 06 December | 13:42
The NewScientist says: they found the Viking Explorer units from 1976.

Were they up on cinderblocks? Mars is a tough neighborhood.
posted by jonmc 06 December | 13:46
jonmc, if you're right Mars is a hell of a lot better that Salem Oregon. I spent ten minutes driving in circles through the downtown of that putrid berg before finding the one Starbucks there.
posted by pieisexactlythree 06 December | 14:02
PartyPooping:

OMG! Water on Mars! well, we knew that didn't we?

Ah, yes, *recent* water on mars. How recent, can't tell ya.

OKay, unless this points to certain and sustained subsurface liquid water, I will continue studying the earth.

JPL is like the richie, flashy kids in my school. I hate them (although I like their shoes).

Don't get me wrong, I am very excited with the mission to Mars (as long as it's unmanned) but really those people live off of earth science in NASA. Very bad, considering that's where my salary comes from...
posted by carmina 06 December | 14:22
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