# "floating spoon" on Mars **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779 "2015-09-03T04:06:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 5, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/21 "2015-09-05T00:06:35Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > That’s no Spoon! That’s a spatula flotation! I think you better turn this probe around… Dammit, they caught a refraction gleam… its pulling us in… ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/22 "2015-09-05T00:12:13Z")
What? Nothing that looks like a 7-Eleven from the parking lot with Elvis behind the counter? ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/23 "2015-09-05T18:57:08Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > The version of the Obama’s head picture posted in the OP has had some “cleaning up” done. > > [Not looking quite as much like Obama’s head.](http://cryptozoologynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mars-head-statue.png) There’s broccoli on Mars! ---
**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:** [September 6, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/24 "2015-09-06T13:22:12Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Maybe so, but if you look just to the right of ‘Obama’, you can clearly see the bottom half of Teddy Roosevelt’s face, looking straight towards the camera. > > Or, possibly it’s Colonel Sanders… Wow. Now I can never un-see that. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/25 "2015-09-06T14:21:07Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Or, possibly it’s Colonel Sanders… Do you mean that those might _not_ be chickens? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/26 "2015-09-06T16:33:22Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > The version of the Obama’s head picture posted in the OP has had some “cleaning up” done. > > [Not looking quite as much like Obama’s head.](http://cryptozoologynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mars-head-statue.png) Well, that is obviously not Obama…that’s some guy from Kenya. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/27 "2015-09-07T04:18:52Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > There is no spoon. …and the cake is a lie. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/28 "2015-09-07T04:29:13Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Maybe so, but if you look just to the right of ‘Obama’, you can clearly see the bottom half of Teddy Roosevelt’s face, looking straight towards the camera. Wait. Freeze the frame. Zoom in. A few steps to the right… a bit more… Zoom in… Enhance. [Wowza!](http://www.brianwrightphoto.com/landscapes/rushmore.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/floating-spoon-on-mars/729779/29 "2015-09-07T13:09:20Z")
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