# Life on Mars

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/641698>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 21, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/641698 "2012-11-21T07:25:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/641698/21 "2012-11-21T17:24:09Z")

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> [@Enderw24](#):
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> I’m betting the announcement is that Curiousity was never real and the whole thing was the imaginings of a NASA engineer in a coma.

Well, it’d be less embarrassing than confusing metric and SI units.

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-on-mars/641698/22 "2012-11-21T18:31:23Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> . Personally I wish they’d have just kept things quiet until they verified whatever it is they are verifying, and revealed the details once they were sure instead of taunting us like this.  
> .

Seconded.

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