They’re waiting for Bugs to get there to take care of the situation.
ice-nine.
A large, black, featureless obelisk standing in the exact center of the crater.
Polywater perhaps?
Thats what clogged up all the canals and finally killed off the Martians.
I doubt they’re leaving us waiting for a couple of weeks to tell us this gem.
An interesting article about this is on the Time magazine web site this morning. The piece generally downplays the possibility that the news will be exciting to anyone other than scientists and science geeks (like us). They quoted JPL spokesman Guy Webster:
As JWT Kottekoe says, this has been over-hyped.
That would be old news.
ummm…which of these things is not like the other?
They found Jimmy Hoffa?
My honest guess is that they found some compound that will excite geo-geeks, and once again proclaim it as proof that some kind of life might/may/could have been possible billions of years ago. Not 100% proof, but more evidence that there is at least an inkling of a possibility.
Of course, if they found gold, or uranium or Twinkies or something like that, my guess is we will be building a factory up there in short order to export it back to earth.
Maybe they found a cockroach or pigeon - I think those things can live in any environment.
I think he meant to say Marsshaking.
:eek:
But probably no damn cat and no damn cradle.
Official Twitter of the Curiosity Rover:
Sounds like there is nothing (any more than “usual”) fantastic about to be announced.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, or so I heard.
A quick check of Wikipedia shows that:
a) we know Mars has a very slender atmosphere because we can see it from ground-based telescopes.
b) we also know that Mars cannot sustain an atmosphere at this time because it has no magnetosphere (the planetary magnetic field generated by the planet’s core, responsible for deflecting solar radiation)
c) evidence of ionized atmospheric particles trailing Mars in space led to speculation that Mars once had an atmosphere.
d) meteorites on Earth from Mars show evidence of paleomagnetization. That is, when the rocks formed, there was a planetary magnetic field which caused magneto-ferrous minerals to align with the field.
3) using uranium-lead dating, it would be reasonable enough to determine the age of Martian meteorites with magnetic alignment versus Martian meteorites without magnetic alignment and determine when it was the Martian core stopped producing the protective magnetic field and allowed the atmosphere to be stripped away by solar winds. This appears to be approximately 4 billion years ago.
Khuatto scat!
But still, they come.
I think you guys are misreading this. By “for the history books” he surely means “boring stuff that nobody reads”.
This keeps getting posted but is actually wrong according to new research, as this article explains:
(note that Venus also doesn’t have a magnetic field, and while bigger, is also much closer to the Sun)
Well, the last rover was small and found “blueberries”. This rover is bigger so maybe its strawberries this time around?
I think they will announce the discovery of life on Mars. Well, except for some qualifier or another.