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29 Sep 14 - 06:16 PM (#3664544) Subject: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Rapparee Yes or no? Don't be too quick -- see the picture from the Curiosity rover on Mars. Did they just leave their stuff behind? |
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29 Sep 14 - 07:07 PM (#3664558) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: GUEST Ares' bocce set! |
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29 Sep 14 - 08:17 PM (#3664571) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Don Firth 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 |
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30 Sep 14 - 07:56 AM (#3664663) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Musket 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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30 Sep 14 - 09:49 AM (#3664707) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Bill D 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............ |
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30 Sep 14 - 12:54 PM (#3664762) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: GUEST "Why don't it roll off?" Newton's First Law? |
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30 Sep 14 - 06:52 PM (#3664826) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Bill D 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. |
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30 Sep 14 - 08:36 PM (#3664857) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Rapparee I think them Martians had balls, I do. |
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30 Sep 14 - 08:44 PM (#3664859) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Don Firth According to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Martian biology is a bit different from ours. Perhaps Dejah Thoris laid an egg.... Don Firth |
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30 Sep 14 - 09:02 PM (#3664863) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Ebbie Keep conjecturing- given your minds I have little doubt but that y'all will come up with a logical and intriguing answer. |
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30 Sep 14 - 10:44 PM (#3664882) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Bill D Got it! Photoshop! ☺ |
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01 Oct 14 - 12:49 AM (#3664898) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Donuel The mars fossilized sea life photos are most compelling. A sphere doesn't float my boat. |
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01 Oct 14 - 08:59 AM (#3665006) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Rapparee 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. |
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01 Oct 14 - 09:25 AM (#3665016) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Stu 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. |
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01 Oct 14 - 09:29 AM (#3665017) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: MGM·Lion 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≈ |
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01 Oct 14 - 11:29 AM (#3665048) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: Bill D 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. |
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01 Oct 14 - 11:45 AM (#3665059) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: MGM·Lion Ah -- many thanks, Bill. |
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01 Oct 14 - 12:16 PM (#3665070) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: GUEST,# That explains it. They are marbles. |
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01 Oct 14 - 01:35 PM (#3665109) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: MGM·Lion Then who had lost them, do you think? ≈M≈ |
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01 Oct 14 - 06:24 PM (#3665174) Subject: RE: BS: Pool Table Of The Gods? From: GUEST,Rahere You should see the cue. |
