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  • S soap brain

    It's just a figure of speech. I'm quite convinced that you WOULD believe it.

    "There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass." - W. C. Fields -1 x -1 = +1 is Evil math, as +1 and -1 are antipodes equating a zero existence.

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    thomas_joyee
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    Ok I give up :-D

    Thomas

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    • 7 73Zeppelin

      thomas_joyee wrote:

      If it is rock, how that shape forms? because of wind or chemical reaction?

      Weathering of some sort. I don't think they sampled the rock so they didn't comment on that. The scale of the image is deceiving. The rock itself is very small - something like 15 cm high, I think. Maybe you can read more on the Mars rover mission website Mars rover mission website[^]. I can't find the link to the original press release.


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      73Zeppelin wrote:

      is very small - something like 15 cm high

      Naked female dwarfs on mars! Wow.


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      • S soap brain

        Although one thing I (especially) don't understand - "1-corner thought dictates that Time is Linear. 4-corner thought dictates it to be Cubic." Did Gene Ray actually bother to check how many corners a cube actually has? Last I checked, a cube doesn't have 4 of anything.

        "There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass." - W. C. Fields -1 x -1 = +1 is Evil math, as +1 and -1 are antipodes equating a zero existence.

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        Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

        Although one thing I (especially) don't understand - "1-corner thought dictates that Time is Linear. 4-corner thought dictates it to be Cubic." Did Gene Ray actually bother to check how many corners a cube actually has? Last I checked, a cube doesn't have 4 of anything.

        Indeed.


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          73Zeppelin wrote:

          is very small - something like 15 cm high

          Naked female dwarfs on mars! Wow.


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          dnh wrote:

          Naked female dwarfs on mars

          Now there's a B-movie worth watching.

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          • S soap brain

            Although one thing I (especially) don't understand - "1-corner thought dictates that Time is Linear. 4-corner thought dictates it to be Cubic." Did Gene Ray actually bother to check how many corners a cube actually has? Last I checked, a cube doesn't have 4 of anything.

            "There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass." - W. C. Fields -1 x -1 = +1 is Evil math, as +1 and -1 are antipodes equating a zero existence.

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            Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

            Last I checked, a cube doesn't have 4 of anything.

            That's because you're a stupid android looking at this marvel through the eyes of your everyday 1-ist.The greatnes of the 4-simultanious 24h days in a single 24h rotation can be understood if you see the 4 vertical sides of the cube that behold the globe as the corners. Thinking of corners as the single points where the sides converge is part of evil math, since a point belongs to the evil realm of one-ism. ...hmm seems I read a paragraph too many of Ray Gene's mumblings. ;P

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            • 7 73Zeppelin

              NASA discussed this on their mission website. Apparently it's a small rock about 5 meters from the rover.


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              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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              I think it's a bloody miracle that the picture has been taken so seriously in the press. If you examine it somewhat critically, it's not hard at all to see that it's not a human-like figure, but a rock being half lit. Just wait and see. Soon there will be millions of videos floating around on the net, saying how NASA covered this one up, and that it really is an alien. (A rehash of the martian face, which really doesn't look like a face unless the lighting conditions are precisely right)

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                http://dreamslittle.blogspot.com/2008/01/lady-figure-in-mars-is-rock.html[^] 99.99 % I believe it was a carbon cloud( I reserved .01% for unknown truth). But it is so funny to imagine that there is a civilization in mars and they will come to meet us. It will give us new chances like find a new bf/gf from mars or start real estate business there etc. :rolleyes:

                Thomas

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                You guys are all wrong. Dejah Thoris and Tars Tarkis are out there and they have a Thoat waiting for me.

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                  TimeCube - egads! Never-mind the fact that we have pictures of Earth from space and it's round... :rolleyes:


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                  BoneSoft
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                  Ahh, the ramblings of a madman, for all to see. Reminds me of a site I found a couple of weeks ago... There are actually people who believe the Earth is flat because they think the Bible says so. Despite the fact that it doesn't, how can people openly believe such nonsense? With the vast amount of idiocy that abounds, how can anybody question that we came from apes... :doh:


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                  • S soap brain

                    I suppose the site reflects his scattered, idiot mind. Kinda like TimeCube[^] I guess. These people....they're just so...so...so stupid! I'm...at a loss for words... :sigh: I vaguely know a kid who genuinely believes that sometime in the past some guy built a perpetual motion machine. One that worked. I can't even be bothered arguing with him any more - I inevitably break down under his sheer weight of idiocy and feel like crying.

                    "There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass." - W. C. Fields

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                    Brady Kelly
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                    I agree with his 'creation is two minor and two major". That echoes the Tetragrammaton (Yod Heh Vav Heh), or, YHVH, corrupted into Jehovah.

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                    • B BoneSoft

                      Ahh, the ramblings of a madman, for all to see. Reminds me of a site I found a couple of weeks ago... There are actually people who believe the Earth is flat because they think the Bible says so. Despite the fact that it doesn't, how can people openly believe such nonsense? With the vast amount of idiocy that abounds, how can anybody question that we came from apes... :doh:


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                      DemonPossessed
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                      BoneSoft wrote:

                      With the vast amount of idiocy that abounds, how can anybody question that we came from apes...

                      The only people who say we came from apes are people like you who don't have the slightest clue about the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution states that apes and humans share a common ancestor, not that one evolved from the other.

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                        BoneSoft wrote:

                        With the vast amount of idiocy that abounds, how can anybody question that we came from apes...

                        The only people who say we came from apes are people like you who don't have the slightest clue about the theory of evolution. The theory of evolution states that apes and humans share a common ancestor, not that one evolved from the other.

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                        BoneSoft
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                        Well aware of that nitwit. That's become a figure of speech, as I used it there. As a general rule, it might be wise for you to never assume you know anything I don't. However, I must say, I am amazed that you were able to accurately regurgitate that fact from wherever you originally heard it. Shouldn't you be in school now?


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                        • T thomas_joyee

                          http://dreamslittle.blogspot.com/2008/01/lady-figure-in-mars-is-rock.html[^] 99.99 % I believe it was a carbon cloud( I reserved .01% for unknown truth). But it is so funny to imagine that there is a civilization in mars and they will come to meet us. It will give us new chances like find a new bf/gf from mars or start real estate business there etc. :rolleyes:

                          Thomas

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                          thomas_joyee wrote:

                          http://dreamslittle.blogspot.com/2008/01/lady-figure-in-mars-is-rock.html\[^\]

                          Liars...[^]

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                          • T thomas_joyee

                            This is the first statue of human made by universe ;P

                            Thomas

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                            El Corazon
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                            thomas_joyee wrote:

                            This is the first statue of human made by universe

                            certainly not the first. There is a non-illuminated figure in the main cavern at carlsbad caverns NM that looks like a man pissing on the trail when viewed from the back, the front looks nothng like a man, luckily, so they only need keep shadow on one side so as not to upset tourists. There are also half a dozen other very accurate natural sculptures of human anatomy (or at least parts therein) that also must remain shadowed lest they offend visitors. What was renamed the chinese hat and then had its name removed was the most PG-rated of the various parts.

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                            • S soap brain

                              The comment down the bottom has me convinced: Anonymous said... I actually think that this is not a coincidence that we twice found or tried to find life on mars. Either America, China, Russia, Canada and Britain trying to hide something from the rest of the world or else it's our imagination or else the FACT is true....THERE IS LIFE ON MARS.

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                              'Sailors, fighting on the dance floor, hey man, look at those cavemen go' Life on Mars, Bowie.

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                              • S soap brain

                                Although one thing I (especially) don't understand - "1-corner thought dictates that Time is Linear. 4-corner thought dictates it to be Cubic." Did Gene Ray actually bother to check how many corners a cube actually has? Last I checked, a cube doesn't have 4 of anything.

                                "There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass." - W. C. Fields -1 x -1 = +1 is Evil math, as +1 and -1 are antipodes equating a zero existence.

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                                Chris Meech
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                                Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

                                Last I checked, a cube doesn't have 4 of anything.

                                How about a cube has four diagonal axes, all of which cross at the center of the cube. :)

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                                • E El Corazon

                                  thomas_joyee wrote:

                                  This is the first statue of human made by universe

                                  certainly not the first. There is a non-illuminated figure in the main cavern at carlsbad caverns NM that looks like a man pissing on the trail when viewed from the back, the front looks nothng like a man, luckily, so they only need keep shadow on one side so as not to upset tourists. There are also half a dozen other very accurate natural sculptures of human anatomy (or at least parts therein) that also must remain shadowed lest they offend visitors. What was renamed the chinese hat and then had its name removed was the most PG-rated of the various parts.

                                  _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                  Andy Brummer
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                                  That anyone would get offended by natural rock formations. Not surprising, just that kind of slight disappointment that you try to shrug off but ends up settling between your shoulder blades anyway.


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                                    That anyone would get offended by natural rock formations. Not surprising, just that kind of slight disappointment that you try to shrug off but ends up settling between your shoulder blades anyway.


                                    This blanket smells like ham

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                                    El Corazon
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                                    Andy Brummer wrote:

                                    That anyone would get offended by natural rock formations. Not surprising, just that kind of slight disappointment that you try to shrug off but ends up settling between your shoulder blades anyway.

                                    well, most of them take a bit of staring before you see it, but one is so graphic that it does have to keep from being lit. An employee decades ago put a light under it to light it only for certain friends, but since it is near enough to the lunch room, it is hard to illuminate it without upsettng many ladies. Hint: it has lips, but not found on the face. It is very well formed, and very obvious to anyone who has ever seen the real thing, it even has the ... sensitive spot.... I guess mother nature is a bit of an exibitionist.... The one with the guy pissing on the path, you have to be at the right angle, and it only looks like him from that angle, jeans slipping a bit and showing a bit of cheek. That one takes a bit of effort, some of the others take no such effort. Getting a near private tour of the caverns I got to see a number of the more embarassing formations. Since it was in a photography course part of it was being careful what you showed, inspect all of your images, because nature sticks in a LOT of detail you might miss. In our case it was not about embarassment, or covering up nature, but from public relations and printability. If you want national coverage of your photograph, you need to know what is there and make sure the photo is appropriate for the publication. If you are submitting pictures to another magazine, you can save the other photo too. :laugh:

                                    _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                      Andy Brummer wrote:

                                      That anyone would get offended by natural rock formations. Not surprising, just that kind of slight disappointment that you try to shrug off but ends up settling between your shoulder blades anyway.

                                      well, most of them take a bit of staring before you see it, but one is so graphic that it does have to keep from being lit. An employee decades ago put a light under it to light it only for certain friends, but since it is near enough to the lunch room, it is hard to illuminate it without upsettng many ladies. Hint: it has lips, but not found on the face. It is very well formed, and very obvious to anyone who has ever seen the real thing, it even has the ... sensitive spot.... I guess mother nature is a bit of an exibitionist.... The one with the guy pissing on the path, you have to be at the right angle, and it only looks like him from that angle, jeans slipping a bit and showing a bit of cheek. That one takes a bit of effort, some of the others take no such effort. Getting a near private tour of the caverns I got to see a number of the more embarassing formations. Since it was in a photography course part of it was being careful what you showed, inspect all of your images, because nature sticks in a LOT of detail you might miss. In our case it was not about embarassment, or covering up nature, but from public relations and printability. If you want national coverage of your photograph, you need to know what is there and make sure the photo is appropriate for the publication. If you are submitting pictures to another magazine, you can save the other photo too. :laugh:

                                      _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                      El Corazon wrote:

                                      It is very well formed, and very obvious to anyone who has ever seen the real thing, it even has the ... sensitive spot.... I guess mother nature is a bit of an exibitionist....

                                      There's a flower in the Dominican republic that looks just like that too. I was describing it to a friend of mine in college and my brother's girlfriend overheard me. She asked what that was. :omg: :wtf: :^) :doh: I guess that's what you get when you are raised by a divorced baptist minister. :)

                                      El Corazon wrote:

                                      you need to know what is there and make sure the photo is appropriate for the publication.

                                      It's all natural rock formations. :doh:


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                                      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                                        I think it's a bloody miracle that the picture has been taken so seriously in the press. If you examine it somewhat critically, it's not hard at all to see that it's not a human-like figure, but a rock being half lit. Just wait and see. Soon there will be millions of videos floating around on the net, saying how NASA covered this one up, and that it really is an alien. (A rehash of the martian face, which really doesn't look like a face unless the lighting conditions are precisely right)

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                                        Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                        If you examine it somewhat critically

                                        :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


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                                        • B BoneSoft

                                          Well aware of that nitwit. That's become a figure of speech, as I used it there. As a general rule, it might be wise for you to never assume you know anything I don't. However, I must say, I am amazed that you were able to accurately regurgitate that fact from wherever you originally heard it. Shouldn't you be in school now?


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                                          BoneSoft wrote:

                                          Well aware of that nitwit.

                                          Well, given the stupidity of some of your other posts it didn't seem too unlikely that you would actually think that.

                                          BoneSoft wrote:

                                          As a general rule, it might be wise for you to never assume you know anything I don't.

                                          It's funny how you have such an exaggerated opinion of yourself. I think there's a word for that.[^]

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