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

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;39524561]Come on now, we don't know what this is. For all we know, it could be a Martian artifact. Highly unlikely, but it could be.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure what you mean by this. [editline]9th February 2013[/editline] All I did was add an A on the cutoff spot.

[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] I thought it was confirmed that Mars had tectonic activity?

[QUOTE=mobrockers2;39524571]I'm not sure what you mean by this. [editline]9th February 2013[/editline] All I did was add an A on the cutoff spot.[/QUOTE] If you add an 'A' the abbreviation now reads "Mars Rover Spots A...." The person who originally complained about this made it sound like he got his hopes up because it was "Mars Rover Spots M[artian]." If you get my meaning.

[QUOTE=OvB;39524687]I thought it was confirmed that Mars had tectonic activity?[/QUOTE] [url=http://io9.com/5933638/plate-tectonics-confirmed-on-mars]It is.[/url]

[QUOTE=OvB;39524687]I thought it was confirmed that Mars had tectonic activity?[/QUOTE] Though Gale crater is probably big enough that it could've unearthed some shallow metal deposit I suppose.

it's a snap

real life mass effect?

How come they never made it to the ice caps? What is wrong with the terrain? Possible mountain range?

looks like a golf club

[QUOTE=blacksam;39527700]How come they never made it to the ice caps? What is wrong with the terrain? Possible mountain range?[/QUOTE] I thought they have?

its not the terrain, the spirit rover was as close to the caps as solar can get, and it just wasnt getting nearly enough light to run, any polar rover would have to be designed to run in 100c below temperatures and have complete nuclear powersource because solar just isnt possible, and it would have to survive the massively long day night cycles [editline]9th February 2013[/editline] nevermind, spirit died because of poor sunlight and its winter parking had its pannels aligned at an angle that didnt get the sun as efficiantly

I think we found where Johnny 5 has been all these years.

Ancient Prothean technology.

[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] There is not hundreds but there are a lot of people who want to mine other planets, the technology just is not here yet.

what if humans were once on mars and then we migrated to space because some shit happened on mars like on DBZ where they sent babies in the pods to earth!

Last missing piece of the Iron Giant.

[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] I can see mars hosting a few mining colonies right there.