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nixiebunny

It took 90 seconds from historic event to doctored photos this time.
- http://twitter.com/chriscoreline chris coreline
  
  which is in itself a bit of a historic event
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

I always wondered how creatures smart enough to travel vast interplanetary differences couldn’t tell the difference between a cow and a telephone.
Gary61

“Meeep! Meeep! – Is that thing even on?”
http://twitter.com/SleazyMartinez Martin O’Gorman

Yep yep yep yep yep yep… NO. NO. NO.
Guido

I hope there are no cats in Mars or NASA is going to get DDOSed really bad.
Halloween_Jack

yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep

brrrrrringbrrrrrringbrrrrrringbrrrrrringbrrrrrringbrrrrrring

yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep yepyep
http://profiles.google.com/keithdtyler Keith Tyler

I was F5-ing the NASA “First Images from Mars” page just after Curiosity landed. The tiny 64×64 thumbnails suddenly appeared at the instant they were received. That was rad.

I must not have been the only person doing that, because within less then a minute, there was nothing on that page, even as more images came in.
http://glitch.tl/ Michael Smith

Brings to mind the Opportunity Bunny
magicdragonfly

You know how they found out?

Telephone. Yip yip yip yip…. Brrrrring!

Yip yip yip yip…