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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #735 on: February 08, 2013, 10:33:19 pm »
Quote from: sneakey pete on February 08, 2013, 10:31:50 pm
Looks like a small pebble of harder silvery shinier material which has been sitting ontop of the softer sandy material below it long enough for it to erode around it from wind, thus leaving the non eroded rock on a pillar. Eg like this
That could very well be it. Perhaps actual silver?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #736 on: February 08, 2013, 10:42:55 pm »
Isn't silver soft? o.O
How are its alloys?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #737 on: February 08, 2013, 10:52:19 pm »
Clearly, it's a pistol-grip weapon of some sort. We need to recover that, hope it doesn't explode into fragments, and study it so we can replicate it.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #738 on: February 08, 2013, 10:54:14 pm »
Quote from: Skyrunner on February 08, 2013, 10:42:55 pm
Isn't silver soft? o.O
How are its alloys?
Yeah, silver is pretty soft. Not sure how well it'd stand up to erosion though. Not sure about the alloys.

If it's not part of a previous mission (still my leading theory) but is still metallic, then it's probably something fairly boring like tin. Heck, maybe it's quartz and it's just catching the light.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #739 on: February 09, 2013, 01:12:12 am »
It's Excalibur. Martian Excalibur. The rover that pulls the x'anthi from the stone shall become, by divine right, King of all Mars.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #740 on: February 09, 2013, 01:15:57 am »
What the hell would that make NASA?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #741 on: February 09, 2013, 01:18:04 am »
The best part is that I mixed the myths and it doesn't even matter, because Mars doesn't have any lakes, and thus by default no Martian Lady of the Lake.

Also, NASA is God. Or something.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #742 on: February 09, 2013, 01:19:39 am »
NASA is Merlin? That whole Curiosity Delivery System definitely reeks of AWizardDidIt.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #743 on: February 09, 2013, 01:25:37 am »
That fits. Now why didn't they equip Curiosity with a lance? Weren't they prepared for the possibility of a jousting tourney on the grounds of Cydonia Castle?
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #744 on: February 09, 2013, 02:15:56 am »
Quote from: Sirus on February 09, 2013, 01:19:39 am
NASA is Merlin? That whole Curiosity Delivery System definitely reeks of AWizardDidIt.
Don't be silly. Only SpaceX uses Merlin to get to space!
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #745 on: February 09, 2013, 05:27:06 am »
I hope that Curiosity finds biological life so that it can built itself a nice cabin to retire in on mars.

If the life is sapient... Then a cabin of skulls.
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #746 on: February 09, 2013, 07:56:28 am »
The spambots are becoming self aware. I'm afraid...
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #747 on: February 09, 2013, 09:24:54 am »
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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #748 on: February 09, 2013, 09:48:42 am »
So it has come to this.

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Re: Curiosity Mission: What The Hell Am I Looking At
« Reply #749 on: February 09, 2013, 10:24:46 am »
Where is this fearful evolution?
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