First the Face On Mars... now this!

"John Savard" wrote in message
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On the BBC web site, at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4063181.stm

is a news article about how finding sedimentary rocks on Mars means it
highly worthwhile to investigate it further for signs of life.

But the photo at the top, showing a group of square rock slabs bunched
together...

of course, it has the likely natural cause of being simply a large
outcrop with cracks in it partially covered by sand...

but it has a certain superficial resemblance... to a vertebrate
skeleton.

How long before this gets claimed as the fossil of a Martian dinosaur?

Dunno, where's "Jonathan"?


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John Savard wrote:
On the BBC web site, at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4063181.stm

is a news article about how finding sedimentary rocks on Mars means it
highly worthwhile to investigate it further for signs of life.

But the photo at the top, showing a group of square rock slabs bunched
together...

of course, it has the likely natural cause of being simply a large
outcrop with cracks in it partially covered by sand...

but it has a certain superficial resemblance... to a vertebrate
skeleton.

How long before this gets claimed as the fossil of a Martian dinosaur?

Hmmm. Looks like a biped. But there's nothing in the image indicating
scale. Is it a velociraptor or a T-rex?


John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html


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"Hop David" wrote in message
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John Savard wrote:

but it has a certain superficial resemblance... to a vertebrate
skeleton.

How long before this gets claimed as the fossil of a Martian dinosaur?

Hmmm. Looks like a biped. But there's nothing in the image indicating
scale. Is it a velociraptor or a T-rex?

Guess it's all in the eye of the beholder, because I was thinking more along
the lines of a Plesiosaur.

But I was perfectly open to either end being the head end.

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It's the skeleton from Space Quest! Hopefully the Rover won't try to
crawl into any holes.

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On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:01:17 -0700, Hop David
wrote:



John Savard wrote:
On the BBC web site, at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4063181.stm
is a news article about how finding sedimentary rocks on Mars means it
highly worthwhile to investigate it further for signs of life.
But the photo at the top, showing a group of square rock slabs bunched
together...
of course, it has the likely natural cause of being simply a large
outcrop with cracks in it partially covered by sand...
but it has a certain superficial resemblance... to a vertebrate
skeleton.
How long before this gets claimed as the fossil of a Martian dinosaur?

Hmmm. Looks like a biped. But there's nothing in the image indicating
scale. Is it a velociraptor or a T-rex?

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html



Last I heard they had discovered robots on mars.


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