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- Brizzyce, on 11/05/2009, -0/+25A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
- Crimeodial, on 11/05/2009, -0/+25It's a perfectly cromulant word.
- angrytortilla, on 11/05/2009, -0/+15At first I thought it was a microscopic view of something found on Mars. What a bizarre landscape.
- alanocu, on 11/04/2009, -0/+14Wow, incredible shots. Nice commentary from Phil at Bad Astronomy.
- sauron256, on 11/05/2009, -0/+13Looks great when actually seen in high res: http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/wallpaper/256 ...
- thegrantman, on 11/05/2009, -2/+13Embiggen?
- rgemmell, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7wow, its nice to see a piece on mars ice caps, I really don't think that kids are taught enough about space or the planets anymore, my sister is in HS and she didn't belive me when I said that there is water/ice on other planets/moons
(obligatory digg me down material...)
The mars Ice Caps have been melting/growing in tune with earths... - spriggig, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7It's hard to grasp that Mars is an entire planet with varying regions. In part because it, along with every other planet we've photographed Mars looks so homogeneous and I think, because we've been fed this idea:
Tatooine is all desert
Hoth is all ice
Dagobah is all jungle
Endor is all forest
We will not fully realize that other planets are full, complete, complex worlds until it becomes routine for large numbers of us to visit the planets and sink our toes in the sand. We are primal beasts who need to experience to believe and yet are easily fooled by our own experiences.
We have a long way to go. - Brassbud, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Wow, I was off on the scale of that image by about 8 orders of magnitude.
- digitalArtform, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6On what? I like tequila. It's way faster than 4 days.
- DrummerAndrew, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6NASA is the *****. And we need to get the hell off this rock sometime.
- akchrs, on 11/05/2009, -3/+7wow.... Mars is like my office at work.
"It’s small, and cold, and has a thin atmosphere that’s almost entirely carbon dioxide, and what isn’t CO2 is nitrogen and, bizarrely, argon." - digitalArtform, on 11/05/2009, -3/+7Look at the patterns in the ice: complicated geometric designs. And where there is a design, there has to be a designer.
Right, creationists? Those squiggles must mean something! We must decode them! - djrbx, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Dugg for..
"And just as a reminder — because I love to point this out — Mars was 250 million kilometers (150 million miles) away from Earth on August 20, 2009, when this image was obtained. Yet MRO was only 250 km above its target, yielding this fine imagery at a resolution of 25 centimeters (10 inches) per pixel. Got a ruler handy? Pick it up, hold it in your hand, and think on the fact that we have spacecraft orbiting Mars, an alien world, that can take pictures of objects on its surface about the size of that ruler.
Man. I love this stuff." - Moralogic, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Yeah, looks like a picture of bacteria to me, yet they are telling me it isn't...
- generalalcazar, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Hmm... I'll stay here, where it's warm, thanks.
- khail250, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Blasphemy!
- nurbsenvi, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2lol that's so random.
that ad is dominating Mininova... - majordanger, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Nice Wallpaper..Thanks Mars!
- ginogrz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Haha, phase transition pun.
- ErrorCache, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2I want to touch it. Dammit I wish we could speed up this whole space exploration process. I don't care about war or a lot of the other bs things our government spends it's money/our tax dollars on, give all the money to NASA. I WANT TO GO INTO SPACE ALREADY!
- Moralogic, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2So you are saying we are causing global warming on Mars? I wouldn't doubt that someone actually would claim that, haha.
- nurbsenvi, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Dr. Manhattan will accompany you.
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1So, you're saying what? The article has lied to you?
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1lol sorry... You should use the /s tag :P
- canadabluesfan, on 11/05/2009, -1/+2SO'S YOUR FACE
- ZigZagZilla, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1dugg for aresain
- digitalArtform, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1That's what I'm talkin about
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Nah not in tune with the earths...
"Martian year
This length of time for Mars to complete one orbit around the Sun is its sidereal year, and is about 686.98 Earth solar days"
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars#M ...
So yeah lol.. just thought I'd correct that statement, this is a science article after all! :P - obsessedglobe, on 11/05/2009, -1/+2Embiggen + Cromulant are completely fabricated by the Simpsons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromulant#Embiggen_an ... - MacBookForMe, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Beam me there, Scotty...
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1On the first one, on the right it resembles a dick...
OMFGZ GODZ SHOWING US HOW FERTILE HE MADE OUR UNIVERSE OMG OMG OMG WE NEED 2 TEACH DEZE FINGZ IN SKOOLZ!!1 - SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Earth needs no flag, we won't wage war with another species as, if not more intelligent than us... If we do my suspicions that we are still ***** idiotic animals, no matter how much we think we are above that, will be confirmed.
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1It's solar-powered..
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1I'll never believe in god, it just looks like too much of easy way to be able to explain things... And what about what god actually looks like/how he exists? That's as deep as the thought of multi-'uni'verses... Only multi-verses are easier to picture in your mind.
- SammyboyKIDDAH, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1If only the rest of humanity had that logic.
- SenatorRaborn, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1Is sarcasm always lost on you? Or just this time?
- SenatorRaborn, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1Did the mars rover actually release that much green house gas? I only ask this because only man can cause the temperature of something to change. Typically planets, like all large systems, maintain a constant temperature unless influenced by man.
- gravelocity, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1That is a damn Interesting photo. The patterns of the Horseshoe type elevations seem to come in pairs and threes. Please will a TRUTHFUL Geophysicist try to make meaning of this?
- Moralogic, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1Imagine what the government has to look through...
- ketedford, on 11/05/2009, -3/+1----The ice is mostly CO2. Mars is so cold that a lot of the cap persists throughout the year, and is called the residual cap.
Wouldn't the CO2 cause the global warming and melt the ice caps?!? Nutjobs here keep telling us CO2 is poison. OH MY GOD!!! Al? Come in Mr. Gore! CO2 killed the martians!!! - ketedford, on 11/05/2009, -3/+1Looks like my toilet after taco night.
- thetruckert, on 11/05/2009, -3/+1I'm convinced it's scientist colon.
- burketo, on 11/05/2009, -3/+1I was thinking about what would be an appropriate flag to put there if/when we make it that far. It turns out there is already a number of earth flags around:
http://mattmitchellfiction.com/unabashed/wp-conten ...
http://chuckayoub.googlepages.com/800px-Earth_flag ...
http://ascensiontek.com/marsengineering/Flags/imag ...
I like the first one myself. It reminds me of Carl Sagan's "Pale blue dot" - incubusbeatsall, on 11/05/2009, -6/+3Yeah, I definitely thought this was a penis.
- fanfablebig, on 11/05/2009, -9/+3I GOT RIPPED IN 4 DAYS!
- vic42482, on 11/05/2009, -7/+1Sublime? You mean it likes to smoke two joints?
- ohhaiitsryan, on 11/05/2009, -10/+2sublime is a terrible band.
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