What is it on Mars?

There is an amateur astronomer that says he found something man-made (or alien-made) on Mars.

He found it using Google Earth.

I know what you’re thinking: “That Sarah Palin sure is hot!” Well, you’d be right. But you’re also thinking, “But you said ‘on Mars’ and he used Google Earth and that just doesn’t add up!”

Well, it turns out that Google Earth has not only maps of Earth, but also the Moon and Mars. And they still call it “Google Earth.” Racists.

Anyway, if you have Google Earth, you can see the “structure,” too:

The astronomer, David Martines, says it’s a building or something. But the director of the Planetary Imaging Research Laboratory, Alfred McEwen, says it’s a cosmic ray.

We spoke with Cosmic Ray, and he said it wasn’t him.

So, what is it?

Here are some possibilities:

We can’t say with certitude what it is. Something mysterious, we know that much.

What do you think it is?


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60 Comments

  1. One pixel probably represents many meters.

    My guess is that it’s either an unusual landscape feature (a big rock) or some kind of anomaly with the picture itself (it’s not really there).

    Anyway, better nuke it from orbit.

  2. I go along with the sock theory. You know all those times when you put two socks in the wasing machine and only one comes out? The other sock is clearly being teleported by aliens to the moon, yet another reason to nuke it.

  3. I disconcur, Basil. I want their memory to remain. I want the sordid details of Andew Jackson’s tyrannical removal of the Cherokee to remain. I want future generations to hear of the Democratic support for slavery (And Jim Crow) and the refusal of the Copperhead Democrats to support a war that had to be fought. May every American learn of the massive infiltration of our government by Soviet agents during Democratic administrations. May every American read Dereliction of Duty to understand the reprehensible Democratic wartime debacles that faced you the average citizen and the soldier alike. And I hope that James Madison’s vengeful spirit may be given carte blanche to beat Obama to a pulp with a rolled up copy of the Bill of Rights.

  4. Its a geyser. No doubt about it.

    I used to be a scientist at JPL in the Planetology Department. At one point in time I had seen more of the Martian surface than anyone because of a crater morphology study I was doing to map underground water and ice. We used to make jokes about the features we saw. But seriously. Its a geyser.

  5. Umm…”crater morphology study”zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! I mean really dude! Like how long does it take a crater to Morph? So like you’ve been watching this one crater for like 20 years and nothing? Wow! I think I’d put the barrel in my mouth and pull the trigger!!!

  6. What’s up with the word certitude? Is it somehow a better word than certainty? Weinerman uses the word “certitude” a lot. Mebbe he uses big words to try to compensate for other short comings.

    “Certitude” sounds so much smartier than “certainty” in the same way that “enhance” is so much more smartier than “improve.” Until the Clinton administration, I thought the word “grow” referred to putting seeds in the ground with a topping of crap before letting the sun do all the work. Little did I know that the “seeds and crap” method could work for things like economies and businesses that hitherto had to be “built.”

    This brings my rant to the word “effect.” These days, it seems ever so important to have an “effective strategy.” The problem is that all strategies have effects. The question is what effect one is trying to achieve.

  7. 1. Dick Cheney’s secret factory for reanimating dinosaurs and outfitting them with lasers.

    2. The home of the real killer. He is still hiding from OJ. Nobody told him OJ is in prison.

    3. The new home of Zawahiri so the Navy Seals can’t get him. Little does he know.

  8. Jimmy, I’m sure he is checking their political affilliation right now. He is hoping whatever it is it is dead so the unions can deal with it and he won’t have to rereform the immigration laws.

  9. Yeah, Lars, you’re prolly right. Lucky for us his unions are dying, too.

    Several other things, while I’m at it (having been driven inside by a rainstorm).

    1.) Cat poop is not good in Marco’s garden, DamnCat. I’m sorry, but the best fertilizer is… fish. I’ve been known to use Sculpin (“bullheads”), Dogfish and Ratfish. But no saltwater Catfish up here. (Or you can just buy it in a bottle and mix w/water. That reduces the dead carcass smell and the eliminates it from floating to the top when it rains too much.)

    2.) “A fly on the lens.” That made me think of the fly on Obama’s face. Thanks a lot, FormerHostage.

    3.) @39: Would a “space maggot” gag an Earth maggot? (How about one 700 feet long?)

    4.) Burma, I think “certitude” is what Basil is when he writes about politicians. It has a whole lot more whupass in it than ordinary certainty!

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