On Dec 4, 10:19 am, "Hagar" wrote:
You know GuthBall, in the Old West they used to have railroad tie tossing
contests, to alleviate the boredom and to get rid of the excess alcohol in
their veins. Perhaps one of the guys got a little rambunctious and the tie
never came back down.
And now we know where it landed ....

Why not, might as well be considered as to why it took our DARPA and
NASA wizards of JPL so long to fork over this nifty old image.

Opportunity / Sol 115, May 25, 2004
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...nity_n115.html

Makes this plank of Mars wood from a fairly old archived image kind of
weird. Wonder why it was intentionally withheld for so many years.
Apparently the faith-based rusemasters that are about to lose their
jobs, are starting to uncontrollably sweat.

Keeping our public media focus on Mars instead of Venus or that of
Selene is clearly their priority number one.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet”