Machinery found at Spirit landing site!

January 14, 2004 10:05 AM

Machinery found at Spirit landing site!
posted by Irontom (37 comments total)

By some total space conspiracy nut.
posted by Irontom at 10:05 AM on January 14, 2004

Every single thing looks most definitely like a rock. Perhaps his tinfoil hat is obscuring his vision?

Good find though, I was waiting to hear some "Mars landings were Fake!" crackpots surface, since the surface of mars looks so much like the Arizona desert.
posted by mathowie at 10:07 AM on January 14, 2004

That conference on God, Man and ET really cinched the credibility issue, dunnit?
posted by DenOfSizer at 10:11 AM on January 14, 2004

Blackmore's First Law - People's desire to believe in the paranormal is stronger than all the evidence that it does not exist.

Via Kottke
posted by starvingartist at 10:16 AM on January 14, 2004

Rock Machines.
posted by sklero at 10:19 AM on January 14, 2004

This clearly proves that alien astronauts visited Earth sometime in the distant past; I've seen machines like those scattered over *miles* of the American West. There's no way human beings made so many of them, so they must have been dropped there by aliens.
posted by Mars Saxman at 10:23 AM on January 14, 2004

So the martians just abandoned junk in the desert? They're so much like us that it's scary!
posted by Mayor Curley at 10:25 AM on January 14, 2004

Rocks aren't machinery. Someone needs to take their meds and rejoin reality.

What's next? They're gonna find a statue of Britney Spears on Venus?
posted by fenriq at 10:26 AM on January 14, 2004

The Masons don't want you reading this thread.
posted by McBain at 10:27 AM on January 14, 2004

Wow, those pictures don't look like close-ups of rocks at all. I'm sure that NASA took all the pictures in the desert of Arizona and forgot that there were a lot of machines just abandoned in the desert.
posted by sebas at 10:31 AM on January 14, 2004

There is no thread, you are hallucinating, switch off your computer.
posted by sgt.serenity at 10:31 AM on January 14, 2004

Feh.
posted by FormlessOne at 10:33 AM on January 14, 2004

Machinery? Bullshit. Those are fossilized chunks of Jimmy Hoffa.
posted by troutfishing at 10:39 AM on January 14, 2004

None of these machines look like vibrators... No wonder they're abandoned in the desert.
posted by onhazier at 10:43 AM on January 14, 2004

Rocks, and kind of plain, uninteresting ones at that.
posted by canucklehead at 10:47 AM on January 14, 2004

I happen to have a device that will render this sort of machinery harmless. I accept all major credit cards.
posted by snarfodox at 10:48 AM on January 14, 2004

<sarcasm>
Two words: "Martian Coprolite".

The Truth is out there...
</sarcasm>
posted by crankydoodle at 10:59 AM on January 14, 2004

Capricorn One
posted by birdsong at 11:00 AM on January 14, 2004

Bah! They're leftovers from Burning Man.
posted by bwg at 11:02 AM on January 14, 2004

Funny, I always thought EnterpriseMission was a Zapatopi-like deal. You mean they're serious?
posted by brownpau at 11:05 AM on January 14, 2004

Jesus christ. First Hoagland continues to believe in the Face on Mars in spite of updated high-resolution photos showing it to be an ordinary hill. Now this.

Why can't he just be excited that we managed to send a machine all the way to Mars? We're going to get some really bitchin' rock-examination photos soon. Isn't that cool enough?
posted by interrobang at 11:06 AM on January 14, 2004

None of these machines look like vibrators... No wonder their society collapsed!
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:28 AM on January 14, 2004

OH MY GOD, THOSE ROCKS ARE MACHINES!!! Arrrgggggggggghhh...snakes!
snakes! get them off me, they're UNDER MY SKIN...
posted by jdaura at 11:42 AM on January 14, 2004

You fools! The Martians obviously do a lot of business with these guys.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:58 AM on January 14, 2004

I'm very surprised the guy didn't play up the section that was cropped out lower left corner. The farkers might be on to something.
posted by birdherder at 12:08 PM on January 14, 2004

See his logo, is this his? Ask as it depicts the Star Ship Enterprise in flight. Which is similar to his statement, fictitious. Can't beleive someone would spend money seeing him talk after seeing this latest specualaton. Wait, take it back forgot about his logo, freak.
posted by thomcatspike at 12:41 PM on January 14, 2004

Dude, it's a rock. Get over it.
posted by shecky57 at 12:54 PM on January 14, 2004

Sad, really sad how those budget cuts have demoralized NASA. Back during the moon-landing days, they made really believable sets--they clearly took pride in their work. Nowadays, they can't be troubled to finish removing bits of machinery from their Mars sets.

"Good enough for government work" indeed.
posted by adamrice at 2:23 PM on January 14, 2004

Yeah, they look like rocks to me. Usually in these cases I can see how somebody might, if they wanted to, get a face, or canals, or pyramids out of a Martian image, but they just look like rocks to me.
posted by synecdoche at 2:41 PM on January 14, 2004

One of those rocks is just bound to have the door key under it.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 3:41 PM on January 14, 2004

oooh, their rocks look different than our rocks.... look out. wait a minute - there is no *their* there. nevermind... argh!
posted by djspicerack at 5:54 PM on January 14, 2004

Why can't he [Hoagland] just be excited that we managed to send a machine all the way to Mars?

Because then he wouldn't be making money off it.
posted by five fresh fish at 8:06 PM on January 14, 2004

They couldn't be bits of Beagle 2 then?
posted by biffa at 2:43 AM on January 15, 2004

Bog-standard ventifacts, the same as you find in terrestrial wind-blown deserts.
posted by raygirvan at 5:35 AM on January 15, 2004

IT'S A COOKBOOK!!
posted by darren at 11:30 AM on January 15, 2004

I think it's time to call in the ISeeJesus guy - only then will we know what we're really looking at.
posted by michaelbrown at 12:24 PM on January 15, 2004

Turns out it's man.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 3:32 PM on January 15, 2004