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Old 18-February-2004, 08:36 PM
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Default Humorous Mars "images"

We've had a few of these, though I can't track down the threads at the moment, so I figured I'd start one for the general topic. as well as making an initial contribution.
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Rose is Rose also has a few entries on the topic (go forward for the next three days for more topical strips - use the calendar below the strip, not the "next" button).
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On the CBC the new show called Monday Edition (a news spoof show hosted by Rick Mercer) they said that they just got telemetry from the Beagle 2.

"Beagle 2's" camera pans out showing a desolate arctic environment. Then an Inuit sticks his face in the screen and says "Welcome to Iqualuit *&%#@^%$. Well I thought it was funny.
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Old 19-February-2004, 12:14 AM
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http://fractured-reality.com/mars.jpg

The more they stay the same... I particularly like the space ship on blocks.
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A composite --



Walter asked about directions on Mars in another topic and this popped in my head. I couldn't pass this one up.

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Just gotta do one more. If I do this I get a whoopin------------ I do it.

POSITIVE PROOF OF GIANT PREHISTORIC PETRIFIED PIGEONS DISOVERED BY OPPORTUNITY ON MARS!!!!!!!!!!



Remember, you saw it here first folks.Wonder if I should write a book - start a cult - make a website? 8-[ #-o

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Looks more like a dug up bigfoot proint to me....

Maybe bigfoot was digging up its footprintss to hide them when the rover came over the hill and he had to hide mid dig.
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Foot print? hmmmmmmmm
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YEAH! THAT'S IT! It's the preserved remains of an Id monster foorprint! How could I have missed that?????? WOW!!!!!

"Monsters John, monsters from the subconscious."



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My contribution. I should fire up Photoshop and do some more interesting ones. Yankees go home...
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My contribution to the general ...umm.... idiocy.

It was posted in a thread that got locked...
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I Just gotta say, that first picture is obviously faked. If you look closely, you can see that all the shadows aren't parallel! [-X [-(
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I Just gotta say, that first picture is obviously faked. If you look closely, you can see that all the shadows aren't parallel! [-X [-(
That and the Peace sign. It is well known Martian Peace signs are in the shape of a 4 dimensional cube. So henche the pic is fake.
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The rumors of Mr. Bunny's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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there are several cartoon "series" here relating to mars...

just do a search for "mars" on that page (usually under the edit button)
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there are several cartoon "series" here relating to mars...

just do a search for "mars" on that page (usually under the edit button)
Bad Astronomy in one of those (more subtle than the obvious & deliberate distortions):
Martian sitting around, reading the paper next to another with a telescope. Paper headline reads: "Earth closest for 60,000 years; 35 million miles away". While I suppose they might have an analog to the mile, which might happen to be about the same size, they should definitely be counting time in Martian years, so about 28,000 or 30,000 is what it should have read (I don't know how precise the 60,000 number is).
On the other hand, they might count in octal, which would make 60,000 into decimal 24,576. But we all know that real Martians use trinary anyway, right? :wink:
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From my blog:

From January 22:
(obviously before anyone knew what had happened to Spirit)





From January 4:





From January 1:

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Absolutely hilarious CERDIP!!! :-D Amazing. :-)
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That was the secret Polish Mars expedition that remains undisclosed to this day. It had just started to pick up traces of kisiel and budyn before losing power!
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