Mars Rover Spots Metallic Arm Sticking Out Of A Rock. - Polidicks

[QUOTE]There's another weird thing on Mars, and Nasa really doesn't know what it is this time. You may remember the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover currently drilling rocks on the Red Planet already found strange shiny things and what was labelled a 'Martian Flower'. But if anything, this is even weirder. An image posted by Nasa on 30 January and taken with the right Mastcam on Curiosity shows what appears to be a 0.5cm metal spoke protruding out of a rock. The strange sight - which looks a bit like a robotic arm - was noticed by imaging editor Elisabetta Bonora from Italy. Whatever it is looks shiny, casts a shadow on the rock below and looks different to the rock it emerges from. Universe Today speculates that it might be a different type of rock more resistant to erosion. Gizmodo instead wonders aloud whether it's evidence of an alien death ship. What do you think? Are you convinced this is proof of intelligent life on Mars, or just another boring thing in the dirt? (Which, by the way, isn't red.)[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/979389/thumbs/o-8441458081_9F48BAAB8B_O-570.jpg?6[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/979389/thumbs/r-8441458081_9F48BAAB8B_O-large570.jpg?6[/IMG] [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/07/mars-rover-spots-metallic-arm_n_2637990.html[/url]

Probably one of the old Mars rovers they sent up

Well it could be a boring thing in the dirt, a remnant from a piece of scrap flying through space, for a millenia, before it finally hit mars, and crashed. Or we could be raped by aliens in a few years.

Cool, I wonder what that could be? Maybe remains from an old rover?

Alien boot. I'm calling it.

aliens

rover is actually under a volcano about to blow, that shiny stuff is harden lava

Weather balloon obviously. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Meme reply" - Orkel))[/highlight]

Swamp gas factory [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Meme reply" - Orkel))[/highlight]

It's obviously Prothean ruins.

[QUOTE=Septimas;39519857]Well it could be a boring thing in the dirt, a remnant from a piece of scrap flying through space, for a millenia, before it finally hit mars, and crashed. Or we could be raped by aliens in a few years.[/QUOTE] Both of those scenarios are strangely arousing.

It's a beacon. Better start writing a griping trilogy with a absolutely terrible ending about it.

I was just talking about this with a friend of mine the other day. He told me how Mars had its own version of the Late Heavy Bombardment period, where asteroids - filled to the brim with Rare Earth Elements - bombarded the planet. But unlike Earth, Mars doesn't have tectonic activity to recycle it's crust. On Earth, all that Platinum is in the Mantle. A kilogram is worth [I]fifty five thousand dollars[/I]. On Mars, all of that is on the surface, give or take a few meters of dust blown by storms. I'm guessing it's platinum, since it doesn't bond all that well with the other elements on Mars' surface.

Necrons.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/CGaIB30.png[/img] Was a little disappointed.

I wonder how far it is from the rover? Although it looks like the terrain may be a little too bumpy to go over for a closer look.

Maybe there's a giant laser cannon hidden in the crust of the planet ready to hit the earth!!!!!!!!1

The Void Dragon is sending forth his minions before starting to resurface. We're all fucked.

I was expecting the ukelele guy in the zoom in picture,

Anyways, the rover has a spectroscope. We should find out soon enough.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;39519947]I was just talking about this with a friend of mine the other day. He told me how Mars had its own version of the Late Heavy Bombardment period, where asteroids - filled to the brim with Rare Earth Elements - bombarded the planet. But unlike Earth, Mars doesn't have tectonic activity to recycle it's crust. On Earth, all that Platinum is in the Mantle. A kilogram is worth [I]fifty five thousand dollars[/I]. On Mars, all of that is on the surface, give or take a few meters of dust blown by storms. I'm guessing it's platinum, since it doesn't bond all that well with the other elements on Mars' surface.[/QUOTE] makes me wonder why there aren't hundreds of corporations scrambling to mine the shit out of mars. up there mining would consist of 40 people with buckets and grabby sticks just picking up millions of dollars worth of rare materials.

[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;39520059]makes me wonder why there aren't hundreds of corporations scrambling to mine the shit out of mars. up there mining would consist of 40 people with buckets and grabby sticks just picking up millions of dollars worth of rare materials.[/QUOTE] Because it currently take billions to get stuff up there.

[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;39520059]makes me wonder why there aren't hundreds of corporations scrambling to mine the shit out of mars. up there mining would consist of 40 people with buckets and grabby sticks just picking up millions of dollars worth of rare materials.[/QUOTE] Wouldn't exactly be worth millions of dollars anymore if we had open access to it.

Looks like a dinosaur [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/iLcxjnJ.png[/IMG]

Ancient Martian lifeforms were dinosaurs. Calling it.

[QUOTE=StupidUsername67;39520059]makes me wonder why there aren't hundreds of corporations scrambling to mine the shit out of mars. up there mining would consist of 40 people with buckets and grabby sticks just picking up millions of dollars worth of rare materials.[/QUOTE] It'd be profitable until it got popular. We'd benefit greatly either way.

It looks kind of like a Hotwheel car body on a pedestal. [QUOTE=Zovox;39519859]Cool, I wonder what that could be? Maybe remains from an old rover?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;39519855]Probably one of the old Mars rovers they sent up[/QUOTE] Can't be, they're all too far away from Curiosity [img]http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/hRty9XhWGN4UZMVjJD9M_A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MzM7cT04NTt3PTUxMg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_sg/News/AFP/photo_1344234196825-1-0.jpg[/img]

C3PO, Is that you?

Probably an asteroid

Can't wait until they dig up a monolith