Dammit, I was going to say eezo.
The NY Times has now weighed in on the mystery.
The only real news in the story is that the data will be released Monday in San Francisco at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union. One scientists says that this pretty much assures it won’t be HUGE news – if it were really monumental it would be released in a press conference at NASA headquarters.
But it strikes me that, given how they’ve been burned by their past “monumental” announcements, no matter what the claim is they won’t try to make a big deal out of it. The brass will lay low until the bulk of the scientific community either backs up or trashes the claim.
Loved the comment section.
The discovery, fancy that, that the second shooter wasn’t on the grassy knoll after all!
I am pleased that they have decided to keep this quiet to avoid pissing off our new Martian Overlords.
The Republican Party’s soul?
I don’t think the rover has a microscope powerful enough to see that.
Yeah you would need an electron microscope.
Turns out the scientist being interviewed was just really excited about the mission in general.
Boo! Hiss!
Obviously Susan Rice is withholding the truth!
Jeesh.
Why aren’t there actual scientific breakthroughs anymore? Dammit, I feel cheated! It’s the 21st frigging century!
One of my favorite Greg Giraldo jokes:
“It’s the 21st Century! Why aren’t I snorting vitamin enriched cocaine off the tits of my sex robot?”
I sense a cover-up!
[/Weekly World News editor] Mars is made of vitamin-enriched cocaine!! NASA scientists cover up major dicovery!!! [\weekly world news editor]
It’s Martians. Soylent Red is made out of Martians.
Sasquatch and Nessie’s love child?
I’m “friends” with Curiosity on Facebook. The text that accompanies announcements is silly but they’ve posted some great pictures in there. They posted last night that the initial discovery was some organic compounds but the later tests did not confirm the findings. So no record book for this non discovery.
Or so they say.
It can only be Jared.
“Kill, Rover, Kill! Good Lander…!”