Comments on: Big news from Mars coming soon, maybe

By: Leigh L. Klotz Jr.

Leigh L. Klotz Jr. — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:14:00 +0000

And the pupal form: ball point pens.

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:49:00 +0000

This better damn well not be it. I wants me some stromarsalites!!

By: Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:52:00 +0000

There we go: radiation levels allow long-term missions on mars. Gamechanger?

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22520-mars-is-safe-from-radiation–but-the-trip-there-isnt.html

Just BTW, the NASA-Websites are a multimediaoverloadjavascriptblinking nuisance. What on earth (and in space) is driving these web designers?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Well, that’s true. My post was only funny for people who remembered the Bandini Mountain commercials. Fella skis down a hill of Bandini fertilizer while the voice over intones “Bandini Mountain. Man dares to go where only cows have gone before. Bandini is the word for fertilizer,” as the skier falls face-down in the manure.

I would have linked the commercial, if it existed on YouTube. As it is, few people under the age of 40 will remember that commercial, but I thought I’d give it a shot. Oh, well.

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/16/business/fi-60288

By: Steve Miller

Steve Miller — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:21:00 +0000

J’onn J’onzz

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:02:00 +0000

They found The Truth, which really was Out There.

By: Drabula

Drabula — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:31:00 +0000

a baby’s arm holding an apple.

By: Summer Seale

Summer Seale — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:07:00 +0000

KNEEL BEFORE *ZOD*! =D

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:37:00 +0000

That reminds me of some song where they mention a velvet painting of Jesus, Elvis and John Wayne walking hand in hand, being watched over by Hank, Sr. Did I dream this?

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:09:00 +0000

Ah Hell…

By: webstu

webstu — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:58:00 +0000

John Carter?

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Plus, if that happens to be right-handed chirality it would strongly suggest independence from terrestrial (or more accurately that our life sparked independently) – either way, the Drake Equation variable “fl ” gets closer to 1.

http://www.seti.org/drakeequation

By: bzishi

bzishi — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:49:00 +0000

@awjt:disqus Yes, I think so. One of the columns in the gas chromatograph is for chiral compound separation.

By: awjt

awjt — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:18:00 +0000

Can curiosity’s instrumentation detect chirality?

By: eviladrian

eviladrian — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:52:00 +0000

Curiosity falls into a crater and lands on a pile of identical rovers. As its batteries die, its camera picks up the flare of another rover landing…

By: class_enemy

class_enemy — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:46:00 +0000

Already disproved. Stray socks are the larval form of twisted wire coat hangers. For every sock that disappears, a hanger shows up in the back of your closet.

By: class_enemy

class_enemy — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:43:00 +0000

Illudium Phosdex.

By: IamInnocent

IamInnocent — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:44:00 +0000

Mayan calendar marking a different time than the one on Earth due to relativistic effect.

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Mars needs women, and it’s an employees market there… So pack your bags lady, opportunity awaits!

By: bzishi

bzishi — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:09:00 +0000

It would be significant if they found several amino acids and they all had the same chirality. Non biological amino acids should have random orientations. Biologically produced amino acids would be the same. This would be the strongest evidence that this rover could produce of life on Mars without seeing an actual fossil (or footprints or a ray-gun).

By: miasm

miasm — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:04:00 +0000

The least exciting theory for which no physical proof had previously been directly observed.

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:37:00 +0000

Yes, but the sample is from wind-blown soil, from a wide range of sources (not just the basin Curiosity is in).

By: pao_e_vinho

pao_e_vinho — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:36:00 +0000

They found a Yeti. That was it

By: StrawberryPie

StrawberryPie — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Socks. They found all the socks that disappeared in people’s dryers.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:03:00 +0000

Mayan calendar.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:03:00 +0000

The Lindbergh baby.

By: Guido

Guido — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 23:03:00 +0000

NASA, STAHP.

After all the exagerations during the last 15 years or so (Arsenic life, martian microbes twice, etc), I am extremely skeptical. And I wish they would release proper papers before starting the grandiose claims. Is it only me?

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Robot dares. You give man too much credit.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:45:00 +0000

So that’s why they equipped the rover with a gold-plated ceremonial shovel.

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:34:00 +0000

“We have groundbreaking, world-changing data that we can’t tell you about yet,”

We have broken ground with Curiosity’s groundbreaking attachment, thus technically changing the world of Mars. We couldn’t tell you about it at the time because we have to abide by the announcement schedule.