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Zotoaster
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Posted: 21st Nov 2012 18:24
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I find this article interesting:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/mars-rover-curiosity-discovery_n_2167207.html

Two observations. First, I've checked the big news sources, CNN, Fox, BBC and RT, and none of them thought to mention this. Second, if their discovery is as "Earth-shaking" as they describe it, then their announcement in December better not disappoint!

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Nickydude
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Posted: 21st Nov 2012 23:00
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Sounds intriguing.

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MrValentine
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Posted: 21st Nov 2012 23:47
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Nickydude - stole my line...

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Rampage
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 00:14
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Stuff like this always gets me excited.
Maybe they found an animal of some sort!

Here's hoping.

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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 00:22
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I will bet my entire life that is just something stupidly over-hyped and will be pretty lame actually. Someone just wants some recognition or something.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 00:26
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Quote: "I will bet my entire life that is just something stupidly over-hyped and will be pretty lame actually. Someone just wants some recognition or something."


I'm not going to say you're wrong because obviously, I don't know yet. But, that being said, the Curiosity rover is a massive project, it's run by the world's finest. If they can get a machine to land about 1km from a target an entire planet away, I'm inclined to hear what they have to say, especially if they sound really excited about it, and claim it'll change history. The scientific community doesn't tend to hype things like the media does, and as I said, mainstream media hasn't caught hold of this story yet.

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MrValentine
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 00:28
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Quote: "Maybe they found an animal of some sort! "


Fossil? now that would be something!

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 00:30
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I bet it's a hieroglyph.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Quote: "Did NASA find the building blocks of life on Mars? It's impossible to say, but dammit if we're not trying!"


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Matty H
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 00:48
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Dinosaur bones

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KeithC
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 06:42
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It's obviously a Twinkie.


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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 19:57
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Building blocks of life, plus a squat full of druggies who believe they're on mars therefore must be.



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Phaelax
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Posted: 22nd Nov 2012 22:16
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I'd like to listen to the video on the article, however, it has two different videos that play at the same time and neither one will let me pause it. Very annoying.

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Happy Cheesecake
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2012 01:22 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2012 01:23
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Anybody want to buy a Twinkie?

Saw that and got a laugh, and I thought it was relevant.
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MrValentine
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2012 01:30 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2012 01:33
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Box-10-Hostess-Twinkies-Free-Shipping-/251185284700?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D154%26meid%3D3650925331013152386%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1090%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D281025913007%26
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH


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I JUST DIED!

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Then I found this too

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Help-Twinkie-Promote-U-S-Economic-Growth-/121021884570?_trksid=p2047675.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D154%26meid%3D3650947769033732238%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D1090%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D251185284700%26

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2012 01:55
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If Mass Effect is to be believed it would be prothean ruins...

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2012 09:05
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Well we better start getting prepared for the Reaper invasion now then.

calm your breasts and stop picking on him.
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So the condition of the half-eaten twinkie is "New: A brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item".... And it seriously has 28 bids?! WTF?!

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A crusty frozen snot splatter that has fallen off the rover, it has hoovered it up and analyzed it, remember just like last time?
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Posted: 23rd Nov 2012 12:16 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2012 12:17
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omeo2013 wrote:

Quote: "Guys, unless you've found Martian artifacts or Dr. Manhattan's crystal fortress, I really don't care. This better not be a bunch of fossilized microbes. Yawn. I know, I know; that would mean life once existed on Mars, but if it was just microbial life, who cares? Who's going to be SURPRISED to find proof that life can exist on other planets; even one so close to our own? People had that figured out before Fermi. If the life we find didn't warp or wormhole its way over here from another galaxy - or at least another solar system on the other side of the Milkyway - why should I be impressed? How does the discovery of microbial life change anything here on Earth? It's certainly interesting, but it's hardly exciting. I can't get excited about a discovery that needs to be seen through a microscope, confirms what we already suspected, and doesn't change anything. "


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Posted: 26th Nov 2012 11:30
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I'd be shocked if it once had living intelligent creatures there or really a twinkie. lol
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Posted: 28th Nov 2012 09:37
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Try to find intelligent creatures on Earth first.

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Well, mud is certainly good for the skin, so I'm not surprised Japanese people know it too. But I'm shocked that anyone is shocked by any things Japanese people are doing after seeing so many animes, playing JPN games (especially from NES era) and watching JPN game shows.

@Topic: Those items are one of four
- Living microbes
- Dead and fossilized microbes
- DNA traces
- Fragments of fossils of bigger things.
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NASA already said the excitable scientist should simmer down, it's not a life-changing discovery.

It'll be some sort of chemical element that we didn't know was present on Mars, it won't be anything earth-shattering, like discovering an alien ship full of mysterious zombie-alien-douchebag generating goo on it's way to earth to wipe us out (along with an entire film franchises back story).

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Quote: " it won't be anything earth-shattering, like discovering an alien ship full of mysterious zombie-alien-douchebag generating goo on it's way to earth to wipe us out (along with an entire film franchises back story)."


Awww...

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2012 03:12
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Yup, that seems to be the case, the rumour kinda spiralled out of control.

Oh well, I guess things are no different than they were before, and yet, I somehow feel more disappointed than I did originally...

Yet I'm still optimistic. This related news was quite interesting: http://news.discovery.com/space/warp-drive-possible-nasa-tests-100yss-120917.html

Yup, warp drives! Einstein's relativity prevents anything from moving faster than the speed of light... through space-time. But what if you could expand space behind you and contract it infront of you? You move the space around you, and you with it. I think it's an interesting concept, it works in theory and apparently on small scales, and could theoretically get us to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri, 4 lightyears away, in 2 weeks! The problem is, space has particles floating about, and they'd be collected infront of you. Apparently by the time you got there, the particles released would destroy the entire solar system. Discuss!

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Posted: 2nd Dec 2012 14:36
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I think it'll be a small rock eroded into a shape that vaguely represents male genitalia. Now that would be brilliant!!

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MrValentine
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Quote: "I think it'll be a small rock eroded into a shape that vaguely represents male genitalia. Now that would be brilliant!! "


A bit like that slender man guy then?

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They found vehicle tracks! They lead right up to the... oh

Shh... you're pretty.
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See, like I said, just something stupid that got incredibly over-hyped lol. Hopefully it's at least somewhat interesting though cause I'm still intrigued.

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Damn page is all stretched.

Yeah, Huffington Post is often...yeah. To be fair, if they found anything significant, it would've hit the news instantaneously. Scientists don't tend to hold back on revolutionary data they've been hoping for their entire careers.

Besides, we had this when the Hadron Collider at CERN clocked a neutrino passing the speed of light. Sure, it would've been a massive revolution of all modern physics back to Einstein, but they knew it was false, they just didn't know how.

It'll probably be a compound likely created through organic processes, that may help the case for Martian life, but definitely won't set it in red stone on the slopes of Olympus Mons.
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Whatever it is it'll turn out to be a vindication of this theory:

Another theory of everything
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Was carbon: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9720364/Curiosity-finds-carbon-one-of-the-building-blocks-for-life-on-Mars.html
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Quote: "Was carbon:"


They could have saved a lot of money and just cleaned my spark plugs.

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SpyDaniel
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Yeah, but think about it, if they have found carbon, then Mars must have had some kind of plant life at one stage, right? Or can carbon be created another way? Carbon is basically coal right xD?
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Quote: "Carbon is basically coal right xD?"


No. The other way round.

If it was simply carbon I don't see what the fuss is about. Carbon based life forms were able to develop on this planet because we have carbon - among other things. Several planets have carbon in their atmospheres in the form of methane even when there is no question of them supporting life (not life as we know it anyway ).
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Quote: "But they cautioned that the traces of carbon could have come from meteorites or even particles the instruments picked up before launch from Earth."


Also:

See: 2:20, he says there are other things than just the carbon. (water, volcanic gas, perchlorate)

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