# After 10 years, Martian finally slips up. Oops :) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 18, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152 "2014-01-18T18:11:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/1 "2014-01-18T18:11:14Z")
_ **FOR INTERNAL DISTRIBUTION ONLY** _ After carefully maintaining security around the Mars rovers for more than ten years, [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZYzM1M1X790/hqdefault.jpg "Mars Rover funny clip TV commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYzM1M1X790) the security staff on Mars reported a minor anomaly caused by dropping a jelly doughnut on the ground. [http://news.discovery.com/space/mystery-rock-appears-in-front-of-mars-rover-140117.htm](http://news.discovery.com/space/mystery-rock-appears-in-front-of-mars-rover-140117.htm) The staff has had a perfect record to date, and it is hoped that this one slip-up will be explained away as a “twiddledink” and nothing more will come of it. The staffer responsible for this lapse has been sent to HR for retraining and re-assignment. After a thorough investigation, it has been determined that no mistakes were made at the senior staff level and this incident is not expected to impact quarterly management bonuses. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/2 "2014-01-18T18:31:02Z")
That’s no “jelly doughnut.” Das ist ein Berliner. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/3 "2014-01-18T20:25:09Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > That’s no “jelly doughnut.” It’s a trap! ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/4 "2014-01-18T21:28:12Z")
I have a bad feeling about this. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/5 "2014-01-18T22:40:24Z")
Don’t worry. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one against. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/6 "2014-01-19T00:19:46Z")
Wait, in that old movie, didn’t it say that “Mars Needs Women”? Maybe they know that jelly doughnuts would be good in trade. I know some guys who’d switch their girlfriends/wives for a supply of free pastry. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/7 "2014-01-19T01:47:25Z")
Can tell how jelly doughnut babby is formed? ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/8 "2014-01-19T03:05:59Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Don’t worry. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one against. Dammit now that tune is going through my head \>.\< if you dont know what I am talking about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9s2XnRKlJs&list=PL03869D844FCE5CE0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9s2XnRKlJs&list=PL03869D844FCE5CE0) We had the original audio version circa late 70s early 80s ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/9 "2014-01-19T09:45:11Z")
> [@rbroome](#): > > After 10 years, Martian finally slips up. Oops For a second there I thought this thread was about me! (I’m so vain…) I was wondering what I’d done this time. (Not that it would have made any sense if it was about me, as I’ve slipped up a heck of a lot more than once over the past ten years, no matter what category you’re talking about. Try ten minutes.) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/10 "2014-01-19T15:28:13Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > Can tell how jelly doughnut babby is formed? Well, when a mommy jelly doughnut and a daddy jelly doughnut love each other very much, they have a very special way of hugging… ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/11 "2014-01-20T00:38:09Z")
> [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](#): > > Can tell how jelly doughnut babby is formed? They need to do way instain bakers, who eat thier doughnuts, cause these doughnuts can’t frigth back! ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/12 "2014-01-20T00:57:36Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Don’t worry. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one against. So he said, but still they come. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/13 "2014-01-20T01:09:18Z")
The other day I ran across a satirical conspiracy theory website exposing the Discovery team’s screwups. An old coke can in the background of one picture, a rusted out model T in another. The implication of course is that the whole thing is taking place not on Mars, but somewhere in the Arizona desert. Can’t find it now, dang it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/14 "2014-01-20T01:15:50Z")
Either that or Ford and Coke are bigger than we thought. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/15 "2014-01-20T23:48:10Z")
‘_Shinobu Was Here_’. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/16 "2014-01-21T01:07:06Z")
A baby Horta? What would really be cool would be if they now took another picture and it was gone, or maybe there was a second similar one next to it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/17 "2014-01-21T02:01:16Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > A baby Horta? > What would really be cool would be if they now took another picture and it was gone, or maybe there was a second similar one next to it. And then one really close to the camera… and then blackness. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/18 "2014-01-21T02:10:11Z")
All we need is a Slim Whitman mp3. …and Natalie Portman… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/19 "2014-01-21T03:49:10Z")
My GOD! It’s full of custard! ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-10-years-martian-finally-slips-up-oops/679152/20 "2014-01-21T04:18:49Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Well, when a mommy jelly doughnut and a daddy jelly doughnut love each other very much, they have a very special way of hugging… leaves them both all sticky.