Maybe you’ve seen this NASA shot from Mars, which has turned the blogosphere into a cosmic Where’s Waldo?
Many readers have asked for my take on this. Look, it’s very cold on Mars, or at least I think it is without really looking it up. So this guy, cold and alone, proves one thing to me: Some Martians are still smokers.
Come on, we all know the look of an office worker outside puffing while using a plastic lighter to revive feeling in frostbitten fingers. I’m sure that five minutes later he was back inside, flashing his tobacco-stained yellow Martian fangs and describing the odd vehicle that just drove by and snapped a picture of him. Pavithra George reports.
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Dear Martian-o-phobe,
How dare you suggest Martians are smokers. Martians do no such thing. They are kind and loving creatures. They would never pollute their green lungs or cold red environment with the foul stench of ghastly tobacco smoke.
They do however like a cool beer and enjoy a great piss up. I have partied many times with my green eyed friends into the early hours of 2079.
Your intergalactic Prof
- Posted by Prof ScrubProf Scrub
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Dear Prof. Scrub,
It’s great to hear from a recognized expert, and I’m embarrassed that I got it so wrong.
- Posted by Robert BaslerI realize that I’m just a backwoods hillbilly from Texas….but what is a “piss up”?
- Posted by KKelli, this from an online dictionary:
binge, tear, bout, bust - an occasion for excessive eating or drinking; “they went on a bust that lasted three days”
I’m sure you have them in the holler where you live, but you just call them something else.
- Posted by Robert BaslerThis looks to me like a woman in a wheelchair. She has on a heavy veil, and she’s making a gesture that clearly says: “You there! Get out the death ray blasters and get rid of that horrid vehicle with the nasty little camera!” [her voice sounds remarkaly like Eric Idle in a Monty Python sketch…]
- Posted by Dee T“You kids get out of my yard!”
- Posted by John C AbellCan’t a Martian girl even do the Macarena without some twit photographing her and posting the image on the Internet?
Sheesh!
- Posted by CharleneAlso, Bob, according to Googl…I mean my extensive research, it could be as balmy as -23C on Mars right now.
I say balmy because with the wind chill it’s -45C where I live right now, and I have to go shovel the sidewalk.
No, I’m not bitter.
- Posted by CharleneYog! Porfel flibit cabalti. Scaparanabom skellek porfel? Porfel SPANT. Sle SPANT depmutat.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI guess I shouldn’t have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI swear, that is not my ex-wife. I mean, how could I get her to Mars? Heh, heh. Er, that is, I know her favorite color is green and she disappeared 2.9 billion miles ag… seven years ago, but hey, how could I ever have done it? It’s not like I have invented a secret Star Trek teleporter or something. That would just be ridiculous. Wouldn’t it? Or a successful ion drive or rail gun powered using hyper cold coils and a long, slow, unnoticeable trickle of power from the electric company to charge a bank of capacitors, with vacuum produced through a hole in the atmosphere using a laser to heat the air so it evacuates a ‘hot rarified air tunnel’ through which the ex-wifejectile would be flung with little or no wind resistance. It could not be done. Really. It is purely a coincidence, and she is NOT pointing accusingly at me.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI’m joking on the outside but on the inside I am FREAKING OUT, MAN!!!!!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksIf they send the rover close with a camera and it’s a cigar store indian, we still won’t know if we are alone or the native Americans had it right all along. Either way,I would be FREAKING OUT, MAN!!!!!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksThat Mother Teresa sure gets around.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksThat’s bigfoot.
- Posted by k40Martian law states:-
- Posted by Cy NicalA cold beer and a cigarette go together in perfect harmony. You can puff away til there hearts content anywhere on this planet,unlike Earth, without your free will taken away or fear of persecution.Don’t allow anyone to take away your liberties and beware of false prophets like Prof Scrub.