Have you heard what they found on MARS?

I suppose now I will have to wait until the tunnels and the ufos and the hollow moon theory are "confirmed" as well. Fuckin' butts.

NASA are resisting the urge to pump it up, or we'll all be transported back to 1987

Hmmm, no bad thing actually

They found water!

-- Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 13 December 2001 01:00

Yay! This is almost as exciting as finding sparkling water on Mars!

Wake me when they find booze.

Take a look at the barman
Beating up the wrong guy.
Oh man!
Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show.
Is there booze on Mars?

Whatever happened to Nanobes? First they discovered some in the martian rock they found in the arctic (AHL-84001?), then an australian woman (philippa someone or other, I seem to think I remember from way back) found some more in other earth rocks (including a variety that ate plastic, I believe), and then no more updates for seven years now, not even a denial?

They found Gale!

StanM last I read (which was several years ago) was that there were lingering questions about whether the samples had been contaminated and the nanobes Martian origin was under dispute

Thanks - I thought it was pretty weird I never noticed it being discredited or investigated further after NASA made such a big deal about that rock and then the other finds looked promising... They must have just given up on the idea, I suppose.

No, WE haven't heard what they found on MARS, but GWB did. Probably oil, then.

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/08/02/the-white-house-is-briefed-phoenix-about-to-announce-potential-for-life-on-mars/

This is almost as exciting as finding sparkling water on Mars!

I just had a flashback to Heathers.

"Oh my God, they're gay!"

http://www.natureworldreport.com/2015/10/buddha-statue-seen-on-mars/

ENHANCE

didn't Arthur C. Clarke write a story about this?

ah

While we were waiting for the announcement to finish, I recalled what little I knew about the Siren Goddess. Though I'd never seen the original, like most other departing tourists I had a replica in my baggage. It bore the certificate of the Mars Bureau of Antiquities, guaranteeing that "this full-scale reproduction is an exact copy of the so-called Siren Goddess, discovered in the Mare Sirenium by the Third Expedition, a.d. 2012 (a.m. 23)." It's quite a tiny thing to have caused so much controversy. Only eight or nine inches high—you wouldn't look at it twice if you saw it in a museum on Earth. The head of a young woman, with slightly oriental features, elongated ear lobes, hair curled in tight ringlets close to the scalp, lips half parted in an expression of pleasure or surprise—that's all. Butit's an enigma so baffling that it's inspired a hundred religious sects, and driven quite a few archaeologists round the bend. For a perfectly human head has no right whatsoever to be found on Mars

[at this point he starts rambling about sapient martian crustaceans, which are slightly less plausible imho]