Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
It's obviously a shadow or some weird rock formation. The funniest reaction has to be the Daily Mail's precis of the photo. The headlines next week will be something along the lines of "House prices soar as priority housing given to Martians".
And the Express will be "Madeleine McCann in Martian kidnapper / Princess Diana link"...
If I'm wrong then, of course, I welcome our Martian Overlords...
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
Hey! i know martians are meant to be "green"...but where is the green colouring on that thing?
looks more brown to me! - like its been a martian who hasn't washed for many a year.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
http://www.fantompoet.com/index.php?showimage=489
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
The Virgin Mary!
How long before NASA auctions it off to a casino via eBay?
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
There is NO life on Mars and that is not a figure. It's just a statue of a woman beckoning!
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
And it must be related to Bigfoot and Nessie, since it's out of focus (always a guarantor of authenticity).
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Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
any one else think that this is just a effect of the rocks on the ridge and on the ground behind?
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:42 GMT
does work out there after all then.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:47 GMT
Isn't that a peeping tom type figure in the upper left?
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:47 GMT
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:47 GMT
It's a Jawa...
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:54 GMT
Clearly, this photo shows a Tusken raider lurking about the surface of Mars.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:54 GMT
looks like bigfoot is loose on mars....
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:54 GMT
Looks a bit like that statue in Copenhagen, I wonder if it's a copy.
Actually, looks a bit more like a rock shaped a bit like the above, but then "Spirit discovers rock on Mars" isn't much of a headline, is it?
I'll get my coat, the title was a shocker and I'll be lucky not to be court-martianed. I'll get my other coat too.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:54 GMT
Such speculation is worthy of Ian Hislop himself! That's funny! ROFL!
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 15:54 GMT
Damn. We've all been looking in the wrong place. It's not Area 51. The Martians have visited Copenhagen and tried to copy the Little Mermaid statue.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:03 GMT
No Gaffi sticks or bantha tracks, only imperial stormtroopers are so precise ;-)
Or on a more musical note...
The chances of anything coming from Mars,
Are a million to one they said,
The chances of anything coming from Mars,
Are a million to one, but still they come.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:21 GMT
it's definately a Sandperson - Jawa's wear much darker clothing.
Spirit needs to be careful though "Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their strength and numbers."
i'm off to the Tarshi station to pick up some power converters.....
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:21 GMT
Dee-dee-doo.... doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo...
Dee-dee-doo.... doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo...
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:21 GMT
for providing all necessary links and materials.
I reckon it's the petrified remains of the knight of the First Crusade from Indiana Jones; The Last Crusade.
Interesting
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:41 GMT
Obviously just flown in from Titan, which is why we didn't spot it before.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:41 GMT
Looks like Marvin The Martian is the
Happyner in the most unusual "Brenting" location winhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/graphics/icons/comment/happy_32.png
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:41 GMT
Nice to know we could fend off an invasion with a couple of hungry cats.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:41 GMT
...who placed this small pink dinosaur?
http://www.geonet.org.nz/images/volcano/volcams/whiteisland/whiteis.jpg
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:41 GMT
But not recently from what I've seen.
Now we know why. ;)
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:41 GMT
... at eroded rocks, you will eventually find one that looks interesting (for suitable definitions of "interesting").
Given these sad "alien hunters" have apparently spent man years on this stuff, it is a wonder they haven't found anything sooner.
But, really, it is probably just the flash-frozen remains of a member of a top-secret failed manned mission to Mars. :-)
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:55 GMT
http://paranormal.about.com/library/blclassic_patterson_bigfoot.htm
that thing pops up pretty much anywhere.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:55 GMT
I think you'll find it is amanfrommars - note the lack of complete gibberish in this thread? That's because he has nipped home for a holiday.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:55 GMT
It's not a Jawa, or a Tusken raider, it's a stranded Ewok!
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 16:55 GMT
They are producing these images on the same set that the so called Moon landing was created on. There must be plenty of places on this planet with this type of terrain. Use of a colour filter rather than the Black and White images from the 'Moon' now make it look like Mars.
Somebody obviously got through the security perimeter and ended up in shot.
Mine is the foil hat, thanks. Taxi!
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 17:01 GMT
if you look closely enough you can clearly see the rock woman snaking on a crisps bearing an image of Christ.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 17:06 GMT
I knew the bearded cnut must be somewhere..
So do I get a reward for pointing out where to send the missiles?
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Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 17:06 GMT
You can clearly see Nagini beneath him.
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 17:15 GMT
So I guess the second shock revelation is that at least some of these Martians are gay? (see the "I'm a little tea-pot thing" with going on with its wrist). I know it's not interplanetarily politically correct, but someone had to say it...
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 19:01 GMT
<voice type="Richard Burton">No one would have suspected that we were being viewed from mars, like insects under a microscope.</voice>
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 19:01 GMT
Send the rover back there and wait, after all:
"Sand-people scare easily but will soon be back in greater numbers"
Posted Tuesday 22nd January 2008 19:01 GMT
Its a rock formation and a shadow, or maybe its santa holding a bag of ferrets, fuck knows.
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