BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?

Subject: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 06:16 PM

Yes or no?

Don't be too quick -- see the picture from the Curiosity rover on Mars. Did they just leave their stuff behind?

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 07:07 PM

Ares' bocce set!

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Sep 14 - 08:17 PM

Hmm….

When a rock is that round, it usually means that it spent a substantial amount of time being rolled around by running water. Coulda been millions of years ago.

But then, maybe it's a dropping of Martian plaid rhinocerwurst….

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Musket
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 07:56 AM

Didn't you hear? Noah was running a tight schedule and had to cast off before the connecting shuttle from Mars landed.

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Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 09:49 AM

I'd take the trip just to go get a close look at that thing. It's just TOO round/spherical. And it has those 5 little evenly spaced 'dots' on it..(more on the other side, I wonder?) But it's just sitting there on a rock, where you'd not expect a spherical object to be. Why don't it roll off? Is it anchored at the bottom, having been 'weathered' in place?


Or maybe them plaid rhinocerwursters had just been by............

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 12:54 PM

"Why don't it roll off?"

Newton's First Law?

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 06:52 PM

If Newton saw it, even he would wonder how it landed there and stayed right there when the First Law was considered....and there ARE winds on Mars.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 08:36 PM

I think them Martians had balls, I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 08:44 PM

According to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Martian biology is a bit different from ours.

Perhaps Dejah Thoris laid an egg....

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 09:02 PM

Keep conjecturing- given your minds I have little doubt but that y'all will come up with a logical and intriguing answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Sep 14 - 10:44 PM

Got it! Photoshop! ☺

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 12:49 AM

The mars fossilized sea life photos are most compelling. A sphere doesn't float my boat.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 08:59 AM

I am coming to the conclusion that the sphere is actually the top of a newel post at the top of a stairway. The surrounding area should be excavated and the stairway followed. We might be led to a Stairway to Heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Stu
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 09:25 AM

Many minerals will form spherical crystals under the correct circumstances, and spherical shapes are often formed by geological processes. You can find objects like this in the canyon lands of Utah and Arizona.

The Mars mission geologists call them "blueberries" and they've been finding them for years. On a planet with only rocks to look at, you're going to find lots of odd things that are perfectly natural but look weird as we have very different conditions here on Earth.

No big mystery, but really cool.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 09:29 AM

Hard to get a sense of the scale from the pic. Is it actually the size of a snooker ball, or of a soccer ball, or of a well-rolled-over'n'over snowball? Or what?

I think we should be told.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 11:29 AM

The image comes from NASA's "picture of the day" archive...http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html several days ago, and the text says the sphere is about 2 centimeters across.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 11:45 AM

Ah -- many thanks, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: GUEST,#
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 12:16 PM

That explains it. They are marbles.

Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 01:35 PM

Then who had lost them, do you think?

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Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods?
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 01 Oct 14 - 06:24 PM

You should see the cue.