[Liberator]

Examine these images , and then tell me you don't think that NASA and other agencies are hiding potentially Earth-shaking information from us.

[Carl]

oh, man! i sure hope you're not taking something from Coast to Coast With George Noory seriously!

[Drew]

dude, george noory is one of the biggest crackheads on radio. He believes just about everything anyone will say. Even when there is heaps of evidence against him.

[Corsair]

It does seem a little... bleak though.

[Bobboau]

uh, so what is this suposed to be

[mikhael]

its supposed to be proof of 'cased metal objects' near the rover. Looks like rocks to me.

[Kamikaze]

I don't think that NASA and other agencies are hiding potentially Earth-shaking information from us.

[Xelion]

damn I knew I should have packed up my tent properly... now there on to me . There are some rocks to still chose from, I'm sure he just picked blindly...

[karajorma]

What really makes me laugh is that this guy thinks that NASA would go to all the trouble of making fake pictures of Mars and yet would leave all sorts of metal objects lying about.

He's even more stupid than those idiots behind the faked moon landing theories.

[beatspete]

Martians - intellegent rocks.

[pyro-manic]

Ummm, those rocks are smaller than your head.
1: Why the hell would NASA fake pictures
2: Why the hell would Martians leave all these machines kicking about half buried?
3: Why would these "cased metal objects" be such weird shapes? If you look at any earth-made "cased metal object", they're always regular - just because it's the easiest way to case them.

Having said that, I'm sure there's something going on on Mars - all these probes and landers keep disappearing or "breaking", right? Gotta be something funny going on.

[aldo_14]

Ah. Y'see, what happens is a little martian persicope pops up from the sand, and spots the rover.  Then a big hand comes up and pulls it underground.

[pyro-manic]

I didn't say anything about Martians - possibly some funky environmental effect. I dunno, it just seems that Mars is cursed - the Americans "lost" an orbiter, the Japanese "lost" an orbiter, the Brits can't find their lander, and now the latest American rover has broken. Quite a track record.

Either that, or there's some big death ray thingy....

[J3Vr6]

If it was cursed then we wouldn't be able to get ANYTHING on the planet.  I just think someone goofed on the math.

[Hunter]

I think it's more of the case of plain old human flaws Pyro-Maniac. But the good thing is, we just keep going until we get it right. Which is our strength

[Unknown Target]

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

NASA's stuff relies too much on long, complecated, error-prone machinery and computations, IMHO.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by pyro-manic

Having said that, I'm sure there's something going on on Mars - all these probes and landers keep disappearing or "breaking", right? Gotta be something funny going on.

More than 55% of probes sent to Mars have NOT FAILED.

Originally posted by Unknown Target
NASA's stuff relies too much on long, complecated, error-prone machinery and computations, IMHO.

I think you'll find if you examine the facts, you will find that NASA has the lowest failure rate for hardware sent to mars of any space agency on earth.

[diamondgeezer]

UUUUULAAAAAAAAAAH!

The steamer began to move slowly away, but on the landward horizon appeared the sillouhette of a Fighting Machine. Another came, and another, striding over hills and trees, plunging far out to sea and blocking the exit of the steamer. Between them lay the silent, grey ironclad Thunder Child. Slowly it moved toward shore, then with a great roar and woosh of spray it swung about and drove directly at full speed towards the waiting Martians.

The Martians released their black smoke but the ship sped on, cutting down one of the tripod figures. Instantly, the others raised their heat rays and melted the Thunder Child's valiant heart.

When the smoke cleared the little steamer had reached the misty horizon, and Carrie was safe. But the Thunder Child had vanished forever, taking with her Man's last hope of victory. The leaden sky was lit with green flashes - cylinder following cylinder -and no-one and nothing was left now to fight them. The Earth belinged to the Martians.

ULAH!
ULAH!
ULAH!

[Knight Templar]

The rover broke already?

[IceFire]

Its back in working order for the moment.

We have to realize that Mars is pretty far away, its a hostile environment and our technology is still very limited in producing sophisticated and robust exploring devices for heading to other worlds.

It'll be a while before we can realistically send people....there need to be some breakthroughs in the next 20 years before we can do that.  Its possible (look at the difference between 1940 and 1960 or between 1960 and 1980 - sometimes huge and sometimes small technological leaps in different areas).

I've been reading that the Jet engine may eventually be superceded (starting in about 10-15 years time) by the Pulse Detonation Engine.  A very interesting piece of technology in itself...just an example of the human race always inventing new things when the conditions are right.  Now maybe we need to start thinking about inventing ourselves out of the impending ecological disaster that may be our world.