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A Twitter member named @CoUdErMaNn has spotted a rock on Mars that is said to resemble Australia. If you ignore some of Australia's largest geographical features. Here's @CoUdErMaNn's tweet, which references this recently-released NASA image. Very strange rock formation took #Nasa @MarsCuriosity today in Mars> pic.twitter. …

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  1. poopypants

    Little known fact: somewhere buried in the constant PI is a PNG image of the Mona Lisa. The catch is it may take longer than the lifetime of the universe to find it.

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge

      Not just one!

      There are an infinite number of Mona Lisas in there. Some of them are frowning instead of smiling. And in some of those she's also flipping the bird. And in some of those she's also naked. And in some of those she's also made of baked beans. Isn't infinity fun?

  2. bep

    Pedant alert

    It's 'Mary Celeste' folks. Just so you know next time.

  3. Steven Roper

    Definitely messianic pastry material

    If that rock is "right way up", then there's no Cape York Peninsula or Gulf of Carpentaria, the Melbourne end is too pointy and lopsided, and there's no Fleurieu, Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas in South Australia.

    If it's "upside down" then it's also flipped left-to-right, so the Cape York Peninsula and Gulf of Carpentaria are on the wrong end and back to front, and there's no Great Australian Bight (Or the three South Australian peninsulas either.)

    Either way, it's serious stretch to see a map Australia in that rock. If anything, it's more suggestive of Antarctica than Australia...

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge

      Re: Definitely messianic pastry material

      And Tasmania is missing!

  4. Charles Manning

    It's good enough

    Looks pretty Australian to me.... SFA and dusty. Even the shape is close enough if you're noot too fussy.

  5. Winkypop Silver badge
    Devil

    Even for pareidolia, this is a stretch

    If it were accurate, you'd be able to see Clive and Gina as well.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Life !!!

    This is indubitable proof of life on mars... a dried up martian cowpie !

    1. JCitizen
      Trollface

      Re: Life !!!

      Beat me to it AC! Looks like cow pucky to me!

  7. IDN_MikeG

    Never mind Australia, what's Ireland doing to the west of it?

  8. bearded bearcan

    How is this article even worth the 45193 bytes?

    I think the Kardashians are more newsworthy. At least they have nice butts.

  9. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Joke

    Nah, not OZ, Fourecks, more likely

    Still, no worries, she'll be right!

    Next look out for a rock in the shape of the Counterweight Continent.

  10. bogomips
    Happy

    this is how I remember australia

    http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/wp-content/2013/11/australia.jpg

  11. mahood

    Clearly...

    it's the Millennium Falcon, and it's all just publicity for the new Star Wars movies.

    And by 'clearly', I mean 'not really'.

  12. Martin Budden Silver badge

    When the tagline mentioned 'messianic pastries' I assumed croissants not bagels. Partly because croissants were supposedly invented to resemble the Islamic crescent, and partly because bagels aren't pastries.

  13. Jim Birch

    I'm not interested in any of this accidental shapery until Darwin's face appears on a piece of toast.

  14. RobHib
    Angel

    Home away from Home!

    Promote it as a holiday destination or a home away from home and we'll significantly raise Oz's IQ.

    (...A surely-needed undertaking.)

    >:-)

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