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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2008-01-23 12:30 pm
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a Martian mermaid?

According to an article on the Beeb's website today (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7205004.stm), the baloneymongers are ablaze about a recently released NASA photo taken by the Spirit rover:


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Yes, folks, there's something there that can only be a human figure . . . or a Bigfoot . . . or even a mermaid? My favourite of the suggestions the Beeb reports is that this is a member of an ancient Martian race that came to Earth and populated Denmark, where later they erected a statue of one of their number in Copenhagen . . .

Unfortunately for many of the theorists, the rock that's created the "human" illusion is only a few centimetres long.



 

[identity profile] quietselkie.livejournal.com 2008-01-23 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
This only reminds me of how keenly I still feel the loss of the Weekly World News.

Alas...I miss Bat Boy and the Elvis sightings SO MUCH.

*weeps*

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-01-23 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it is awful, isn't it? At the supermarket checkout we're nowadays reduced to following the Brad'n'Angie saga.