What NASA fears most on Mars (image)

"Curiosity makes me very angry, very angry indeed!"

By David Silverman, of Simpsons and Tubatron fame.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Nash Rambler

We just had to power Curiosity with Illudium Pu-36, didn’t we.
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  Should have gone with Elerium-115
Ramone

Even with the ChemCam, I think Marvin’s gonna win that one.
Warren_Terra

Really? You have a post and give credit to someone because they (1) made a joke that’s already been made a million times; and (2) did so by ‘shopping together two images made by other people, in the simplest way possible?
- pupdog
  
  Man, you sure told them. How dare someone make a joke, ever.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  I now see the error in my ways. I shall never ever make a joke or credit a notable artist who has made a silly LOLpic ever again.
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/TAN34QBL4LDZBKM32TZHG4WIDI Christine
    
    Party poops such as Warren_Terra make me angry. Very angry indeed.
    - stephenl123
      
      Looney-Tunes did it first.
      - http://profile.yahoo.com/TAN34QBL4LDZBKM32TZHG4WIDI Christine
        
        I did not know that. OMG you are so intelligent. (sarc)
        
        So of course that means everyone else should STFU and stop sharing 2nd-hand, 3rd-hand and beyond giggles.
        
        Okay. Now I frown, and now you are happy.
- Boomer
  
  Thank goodness for a voice of reason. I couldn’t agree with you more. Upon first seeing the cartoon I guffawed out loud and giggled like a school boy. It made my morning, but thank the Ancients, you brought me to my senses. As one who considers himself somewhat intellectually competent — after all, I read Boing Boing and look up all the words I don’t understand — I realise I should frown on such nonsense; however, once the laughter is out there it’s really difficult to put it back into the can. Therefore, I promise to strive harder to devote myself to follow your role as an intolerant and humourless curmudgeon.
  - vonbobo
    
    I do think this one is better
    http://milesobrien.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/10-marvin-the-martian.jpg?w=300
    It’s the first one I saw, and for all I know is the original inspiration.
    
    And this one made me laugh..
    http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8bl4mafAj1r7nqxao1_400.jpg
    
    I admit, by the time I saw this latest one, I was kind of over it too, but I should jump on the bandwagon while it is still hot. I see that a starbucks cup is already done… maybe I should do a discarded mcdonalds bag. Or, a half buried statue of liberty? Or fetal star child David Bowman? OH!… “all your base are belong to us”… classic meme for the win.
- theophrastvs
  
  yeah! how dare they attempt to amuse us? …and the scale is all wrong. (Martian trainers are all exactly 17.3cm in length) and besides, where the @#$ is (Invader) Zim (and/or Gir)?? this is a serious oversight!
- mobobo
  
  the simplest shoops are often the best, now turn that upside down frown around.
GuyInMilwaukee

I took this screen shot of GMA this morning reporting on the amazing “352-mile journey” that Curiosity took to land on Mars. Nice short cut NASA! I’m not sure what took them so long.
- EH
  
  NBC, right?
  - show me
    
    GMA = Good Morning America = ABC Network’s weekday morning show.
Boundegar

That pic is shopped! I can tell by the pixels!
franko

i’m impressed with the attention to detail. i mean, the scale of Marvin in relation to the rover seems correct to me…. right?
- vonbobo
  
  Meh- the sky crane would never be in the air by the same time that curiosity is fully deployed. It completely destroys the suspension of disbelief for me. I blame mohawk guy.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XTUA5R2BLRMKHLZLQBBZAGU2IA John

Oh goody! My illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator
OldBrownSquirrel

I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen any Ice Warriors yet.

This is because I am old.
chriscombs

In case anyone’s curious, the underlying illustration is from the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine… we ran this unannotated version on NG News over the weekend. It’s by Oliver Uberti and Nick Kaloterakis.
timquinn

and no one has mentioned Ray Bradbury either
- http://www.facebook.com/pupdog Brian Mackey
  
  Or Burroughs!
http://www.hamishmacdonald.com/ hamishmacdonald

I doodled the first thing that came to mind when I heard the rover was called Curiosity…