20 Jan 14
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Originally posted by sonhouseI bet some of the conspiracy theorists would say this is proof that the rover is not there but here on earth in a studio and the rock was misplaced by a person working in that studio and all the unmanned Mars landing are all one big hoax -nothing man made has ever been sent to another planet.
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-mysteriously-front-mars-opportunity-rover.html
The leading theories are a nearby meteorite or flinging rocks from the wheels.
20 Jan 14
Originally posted by humyThe really sad part is the number of people that get taken in by such nonsense.
I bet some of the conspiracy theorists would say this is proof that the rover is not there but here on earth in a studio and the rock was misplaced by a person working in that studio and all the unmanned Mars landing are all one big hoax -nothing man made has ever been sent to another planet.
People are making a lot of money selling these conspiracy theory books, 99.99% of which are bogus but people fall for them anyway.
Same with creationists, eh.
21 Jan 14
Originally posted by sonhouseI wonder if NASA could be sufficiently funded by revenues from these types of books ? It is an idea worthy of further investigation. 😉
The really sad part is the number of people that get taken in by such nonsense.
People are making a lot of money selling these conspiracy theory books, 99.99% of which are bogus but people fall for them anyway.
Same with creationists, eh.
Come on guys. These poor chaps sit around a computer screen looking at rocks all day, which probably cost us all billions of dollars. My hats off to them for making this sound exciting.
"Say, did that rock just move? Hold on a minute, did that rock just say something.........?"