NASA discovery on Mars "For the history books"

[Beryl77]

I'm really hoping it's something in the soil that is usually a product from living beings or something like that. Like some fossilized bacteria poop, that would be awesome. We'd have finally proof that Mars contained life once.

 

[RicoADF]

Eh...what? Why not wait until they are going to tell people before they tell people.

OK, a wild prediction, if NASA decides to relocate to Mars and changes its name to Adeptus Mechanicus, I guess we should all start praying to the Emperor, since they've probably found the Void Dragon.

There will be a new board game commissioned in the Void Dragon's honour: Settlers of C'Tan.

...

Oh, that was awful.

Because in the general public no-one has interest in NASA or space. I'm betting it'll either be evidence of life or nothing of interest and only a publicity stunt which like previous ones will only cause their popularity to drop.

 

[Section Crow]

Probably something to with that super microbe or the soil that had metabolizing nutrients in it that hinted at former martian life

Yeah... I couldn't think of any jokes

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Everyone's missing odd socks.

hah i laughed out loud at this. i will +1 to this, so I at least know i'm not going insane when i can't find the bloody bastards.

 

[Dfskelleton]

The lost Roanoke Colony.
They've been on Mars this whole time.
Colonizing America was too difficult with their limited resources, so they settled for the next best thing; the surface of Mars.

 

[Kaymish]

i bet its Natasha Henstridge or Justin Lazard at least it cant get back here

EDIT:

A plinth saying "Manufactured on Magrathea" and then a load of health and safety shite

that got me thinking about the alien reef in Judas unchained "this place was built by the most anal species ever... don't you see its a goddamn serial number"

 

[Syzygy23]

If this information doesn't concern terraforming Mars or Aliens then I don't care.

 

[Vivid Kazumi]

i'm not saying prothean but......prothean's
captcha:uncle leo?
maybe captcha...maybe...

 

[mateushac]

+1 for the soviet flag

 

[someonehairy-ish]

C'thulhu? It's c'thulhu, isn't it?

 

[Robot Number V]

I'm hoping it's something incredibly simple, yet totally bizarre and inexplicable. Like a Richard Nixon mask, or a pile of uneaten candy bars.

More likely though, it's a glob of dirt with a 35% larger brown-to-red ratio then expected.


Or a Reaper.

 

[chadachada123]

What we shouldn't lose sight of is the fact that the analysis tool is just a spectrometer (well, two spectrometers and a gas-separator).

It wouldn't be able to detect a monolith or a sign saying "Hey mom!" or anything crazy like that. Hell, it probably couldn't even detect "life," just the molecules within. (Which would still be freaking incredible, since it would basically confirm the existence of extra-terrestrial life).

That said, my guess is some sort of amino acid or something.

Information on what exactly Curiosity has in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_Analysis_at_Mars

 

[viranimus]

Most likely microbial fossilized life.

NASA has this nasty tendency to overhype its discoveries to try to generate interest and funding.

Molyneaux effect?

While that's true to a certain extent, it is sort of exciting. Depends on how interested you are in that sort of thing really I guess. To the general public, pretty boring, to the scientific community and space nuts, pretty cool.

Absolutely. I know I am more interested than most, which is why I even looked into the thread. Not trying to diminish this discovery. I was commenting more on NASAs track history, which honestly, If you were there through the 70s and 80s and even as it wound down during the early 90s, There was frequently these "BIG" announcements that made it sound like we discovered lil green martians having buttseks with one of our satellites or the like, only to be very... I dont want to say mundane, or boring for that matter but just...uninspiring.

So its a tad bit of the boy who cried wolf with NASA. Even microbial life would be a big discovery, its more of running out of energy from repacking the balloons and confetti in prep for grandiose celebration only to get a full payload of... Meh.

 

[iseko]

I bet they found a talking dolphin that took the mars rover into the future where dolphins have killed all the humans and are colonizing mars. He took the mars rover to the future to show him how their society has evolved and how we can stop the dolphins from taking over and just now the mars rover returned!!!

Or ya know... maybe they found a special kind of rock.

 

[disgruntledgamer]

They found Life obviously.

 

[MrMixelPixel]

A Proth...

Obviously it's evidence of a Prothean beacon.

A Derel...

They found another Derelict Ship, didn't they? We're all doomed.

All the lemo...

All of the Lemon-flavoured Coke-Colas that I would have gone to war for if it brought them back to the shelves?

Fuckin' ninjas...

(I admit that the last one I didn't actually think of... it just felt funny to quote and pretend like he ninja'd me.)

Ot: I'm gonna go with red sand... they found a large stock pile of red sand.

 

[repeating integers]

Eh...what? Why not wait until they are going to tell people before they tell people.

OK, a wild prediction, if NASA decides to relocate to Mars and changes its name to Adeptus Mechanicus, I guess we should all start praying to the Emperor, since they've probably found the Void Dragon.

There will be a new board game commissioned in the Void Dragon's honour: Settlers of C'Tan.

...

Oh, that was awful.

...

I don't get it.

:-/

 

[Shoggoth2588]

All of the Lemon-flavoured Coke-Colas that I would have gone to war for if it brought them back to the shelves?

If they find that...AND Coke Blak...well, let's just say you've got yourself a general.

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I bet they found a Magikarp. It's always Magikarp.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh...what? Why not wait until they are going to tell people before they tell people.

OK, a wild prediction, if NASA decides to relocate to Mars and changes its name to Adeptus Mechanicus, I guess we should all start praying to the Emperor, since they've probably found the Void Dragon.

There will be a new board game commissioned in the Void Dragon's honour: Settlers of C'Tan.

...

Oh, that was awful.

...

I don't get it.

:-/

It's a Warhammer 40,000 reference. Way back when, when they introduced the C'tan and making them over the top powerful and ancient beyond time and going to eat the universe for sure (not like all the other monsters going to eat the universe for sure, this one is really scary), they stuck one of them and Mars and said it had been influencing mankind's technologies forever, and suddenly always had been.

 

[repeating integers]

Eh...what? Why not wait until they are going to tell people before they tell people.

OK, a wild prediction, if NASA decides to relocate to Mars and changes its name to Adeptus Mechanicus, I guess we should all start praying to the Emperor, since they've probably found the Void Dragon.

There will be a new board game commissioned in the Void Dragon's honour: Settlers of C'Tan.

...

Oh, that was awful.

...

I don't get it.

:-/

It's a Warhammer 40,000 reference. Way back when, when they introduced the C'tan and making them over the top powerful and ancient beyond time and going to eat the universe for sure (not like all the other monsters going to eat the universe for sure, this one is really scary), they stuck one of them and Mars and said it had been influencing mankind's technologies forever, and suddenly always had been.

...So you're telling me it's not a pun?

Fuck. I got it all along, I was just looking for something more.