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Pie 12-22-2009 03:42 PM

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Valles Marineris (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien spacecraft".

The story broke late Friday night when a major stationed at nearby Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Valles Marineris Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" several times before coming to a stop, "deflating in a sudden explosion of alien gases". Minutes later, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser contacted the Daily Record telepathically to contradict the earlier report.

General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that hysterical stories of a detachable vehicle roaming across the Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to accept the Air Force's explanation of recent events, preferring to speculate on the "other-worldly" nature of the crash debris.

Conspiracy theorists have condemned Rgrmrmy's statements as evidence of "an obvious government cover-up", pointing out that Mars has no swamps.

xoxoxoBruce 12-22-2009 03:58 PM

:lol2::thumbsup::thumbsup:

richlevy 12-23-2009 07:38 AM

Very well done!:thumb:

Pie 12-23-2009 07:58 AM

Not mine, and quite old -- I think it dates back to 1997 when the Pathfinder mission landed. It had its own rover, Sojourner.

xoxoxoBruce 12-23-2009 02:39 PM

You still get credit for bringing it here, sort of a finders fee, if you will.
As a reward, your membership in the Cellar for the next year, is absolutely free. :D

Griff 12-23-2009 04:57 PM

Nice find Pie!

tw 01-14-2010 11:09 PM

Things are getting grim on Mars. A rover that cannot move can no longer perform science its instruments were designed to perform.
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Extrication drives were tried on sols 2138, 2140 and 2142 (Jan. 7, 9 and 11, 2010). Each of these drives employed a new technique of steering the wheels back and forth before driving. … However, even with these new techniques, little forward progress has been achieved. And excessive sinkage continues to occur with each attempt.
Both the right-front and right-rear wheel continue to be non-functional.
It just does not have enough horsepower to get out of a place called Troy.

glatt 01-15-2010 08:04 AM

Dude, stop being so negative. This thing lived how many years longer than it was expected to? It should be celebrated. It was a huge success. But every mission must end.

Pie 01-15-2010 08:32 AM

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best.

classicman 01-15-2010 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 626675)
Dude, stop being so negative.

Thats like telling Rush not to be an asshole. :headshake
Not sure thats ever gonna happen.

tw 01-15-2010 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 626675)
Dude, stop being so negative.

Its only negative if you are. Stated was a prediction based in facts. Nothing more.

Now to see negative, classicman just posted another cheap shot attack on Obama and other honest people. He even takes every oppurtunity to brag about the size of his penis - because he can put it in his mouth. See. That is what a negative post looks like - when it is also accurate.

Of the two Rovers, Spirit has been a hard luck story - even when it was in development. Spirit has been operating with a defective front right wheel. Failure of its rear right wheel may be its demise. Nothing but facts.

classicman 01-16-2010 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 626981)
classicman even takes every opportunity to brag about the size of his penis - because he can put it in his mouth. - it is also accurate.

I brag about the size of my penis because I can put it in my mouth? :eek:
AND thats accurate?

Tom, you gotta lay off the sauce - seriously.

classicman 01-16-2010 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by tw (Post 626642)
Things are getting grim on Mars. A rover that cannot move can no longer perform science its instruments were designed to perform. It just does not have enough horsepower to get out of a place called Troy.

All the bold indicate negatives - glatt is 100% correct.

tw 01-19-2010 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 627046)
All the bold indicate negatives - glatt is 100% correct.

Cheapshots and wackoman. Synonymous. Another reality with no emotion connotations. It just is.

classicman 01-19-2010 08:32 PM

Its really quite funny - you've said you attempt to post without emotion, but is seethes out of every sentence you write.

Note: my post has no emotion in it either - just fact, yet your response . . .


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