Originally posted by paultopiaI agree, Pualtopia.
enough with the spamming
I've had yet another chat with HOLIJVE and he seems to now understand he must make no new posts like this one.
His site is not bad, and he does point it back at RHP as well as Uchess.... but it is a lot of spam if he keeps making new ones.
I am not sure how 'cool' his freeware might be, but the site is not so bad if you want to check it out and talk about it. I've been there, and it is about chess... and a good start to a nice site.
Also, see the Censor thread HOLIJVE started for more info, and post there if you have problems with this thread staying up!
Phla-
One of the Mars rovers is currently excavating what appears to have been the Martian equivalent of a chess set. It was played on a hexagonal board with a total of 144 squares. The squares come in three colors rather than two. Some of the pieces that presumably moved on the board are based on a living creature of some sort that had four arms instead of two--or maybe two arms plus two other appendages that supported wings. It is hoped that further trenching by the rover's digging tool will turn up broken-off wings if in fact that is what the figurines originally bore. It is not known whether those figurines represent some creature that was important to the actual board designers (as with the horse-head chess piece of the human-designed game of chess), or whether they represent the actual board-designer species itself. The hexagonal nature of the squares has led NASA managers to speculate that the Martian organisms who actually designed and played the game lived a bee-like lifestyle, possibly sleeping in waxy hexagonal cells that they made from liquid material that they were able to squirt from glands, such that the material quickly congealed into a solid that formed the matrix of their dwellings. Nothing resembling a skeleton or a fossil of a skeleton has yet been observed at the dig site. 😉
Originally posted by Paul DiracIt seems a little premature to classify this artifact as the equivalent of a chess set. maybe the Martians used it purely for religious or aesthetic purposes, or for something we have no classification for. Perhaps they didn't even have the concept 'game'...😛😕😲😉
One of the Mars rovers is currently excavating what appears to have been the Martian equivalent of a chess set. 😉
I'm not even sure what 'equivalent of a chess set' might mean...if the pieces, board size and shape are all different, in what sense could it be 'equivalent'?
Originally posted by Paul DiracIs this a complete wind up or just a little embelishment of some thing that actually happened?
One of the Mars rovers is currently excavating what appears to have been the Martian equivalent of a chess set. It was played on a hexagonal board with a total of 144 squares. The squares come in three colors rather than two. Some of the pieces that presumably moved on the board are based on a living creature of some sort that had four arms instead of two ...[text shortened]... ing resembling a skeleton or a fossil of a skeleton has yet been observed at the dig site. 😉
I am not familiar with the intricacies of British English, but if "wind up" is something like the American "put on," then I suppose you could say that. It was written on a (payday) Friday night, in a mood of joviality anticipating the coming three-day weekend. The Mars rovers have actually found zero evidence of current or past life there.