# Damn Those Martians **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689 "2004-01-23T00:58:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689/21 "2004-01-30T02:22:55Z")
Hey: Get over it! I, personally, don’t care if the dammed things clunk around here but… **Podkayne** ’s kids like to gather the things up and play with them, **Tars Tarkas** thinks they make fine targets for radium rifle practice, and the calots get off on shaking and tossing them around like rag dolls. I suggest that your resources would be better spent on developing some mini-submarines to explore Venus. The natives there are always very intense about doing what they do best, and will likely ignore your silly machines. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689/22 "2004-01-30T05:24:04Z")
The problem, it seems, is that those bloody Martians don´t respect the probes we send, “Oportunity”? “Spirit”? what kind hippy crap is that? no sirs, what we got to do is call the next one Sam Parkhill, they´ll soil their pants and run for the hills. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689/23 "2004-01-30T13:04:46Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > Hey: Get over it! > > I, personally, don’t care if the dammed things clunk around here but… > > **Podkayne** ’s kids like to gather the things up and play with them, **Tars Tarkas** thinks they make fine targets for radium rifle practice, and the calots get off on shaking and tossing them around like rag dolls. > > I suggest that your resources would be better spent on developing some mini-submarines to explore Venus. The natives there are always very intense about doing what they do best, and will likely ignore your silly machines. HORSERADISH! We know what your brats are up to, **JCoM**! They’ve re-painted our Probes, tricked 'em out as low-riders, & hung fuzzy dice from the mirrors! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689/24 "2004-01-30T16:45:55Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Well, you know the man from Mars likes to eat up cars. As well as bars and recently, guitars. I thought the man from Mars stopped eating cars and eating bars. Now, he only eats guitars. Or did he go back to his old ways and we were uninformed? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689/25 "2004-01-30T17:29:16Z")
This might help clear up some of the questions: [Spirit’s LiveJournal](http://www.livejournal.com/users/spiritrover/) And here’s a [local view (pdf file)](http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2004/01/marsaf.pdf) of the goings on… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-those-martians/225689.md?page=1)