The Squirrel on Mars

[tholden]

NASA/JPL Source:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6941 ... 4_full.jpg

[JHL]

And look. There's half a calcified avocado in the lower right! There it is, right next to the miniature Great Pyramid of Giza with the solid titanium sphere on top!

At least you got this nonsense in the right forum category this time.

[willendure]

NASA/JPL Source:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6941 ... 4_full.jpg

No way.

That is definitely a weasel, not a squirrel.

[kevin]

It could be a hamster?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8i3oLmPfk
Kevin

[tholden]

And look. There's half a calcified avocado in the lower right! There it is, right next to the miniature Great Pyramid of Giza with the solid titanium sphere on top!

At least you got this nonsense in the right forum category this time.

Hint: You're not as cute, or as smart, or as funny as you imagine yourself to be.

[tholden]

It could be a hamster?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8i3oLmPfk
Kevin

Small rodent of some sort, I'm GUESSING that he views himself as a ground squirrel and would probably try to use the ground squirrel restroom and not the restrooms for hamsters or gophers, but I could be wrong on that.

[JHL]

NASA/JPL Source:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6941 ... 4_full.jpg

The remarkable thing about all this - aside from the sheer, inherent implausibility - is the bigger picture. Take a look at the Martian wasteland. Let it really sink in. No foolish peering around with a magnifying glass with no scale on it.

Now ask yourself a question. With earth housing seven billion people and having a human civilization going back tens of thousands of years, would you ever expect to reasonably find dishwasher parts or fast food boxes or Ikea furniture or abandoned underground hobbit burrows by examining a wide-field view of the Gobi Desert with 3x magnifying glasses and a web browser with a zoom function?

Or interior Australia? Or even the middle of agricultural Kansas?

Get a grip, man. You might one day find a lug nut lying in the Alberta plains but let me ask you, would you ever posit evidence of mankind by way of a bloody random search of the remotest Canadian terrain? Then why in the name of all that's reasonable would you expect that to plausibly be a single fossilized squirrel on Mars?!

[JHL]

Hint: You're not as cute, or as smart, or as funny as you imagine yourself to be.

The magnitude of my pulchritude aside, has it occurred to you that if I can poke a hole through this dumb Lost Martian Civilization meme it must be all that much more preposterous to folks with associated scientific backgrounds?

Or that if you're keen enough to spot my obvious lack of intellect from clear across the Web, how is it you still believe in this foolishness? I mean, a stone yard ornament squirrel on Mars.

Was it a flying squirrel?

[kevin]

It could be a hamster?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8i3oLmPfk
Kevin

Small rodent of some sort, I'm GUESSING that he views himself as a ground squirrel and would probably try to use the ground squirrel restroom and not the restrooms for hamsters or gophers, but I could be wrong on that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q4S7lZeik

They rest up in biscuit tins.
Handy for a quick nibble, now and then.
Kevin

[tholden]

NASA/JPL Source:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6941 ... 4_full.jpg

The remarkable thing about all this - aside from the sheer, inherent implausibility - is the bigger picture. Take a look at the Martian wasteland. Let it really sink in........

Get a grip, man. You might one day find a lug nut lying in the Alberta plains but let me ask you, would you ever posit evidence of mankind by way of a bloody random search of the remotest Canadian terrain? Then why in the name of all that's reasonable would you expect that to plausibly be a single fossilized squirrel on Mars?!

Somebody who didn't know any better could get the false impression that you knew what you were talking about.

The squirrel is not fossilized, he's lying there in the mid-day sun getting some good vitamin D for himself before he goes back underground where he spends most of his time. A fossilized squirrel would not look like that at all.

[kevin]

NASA/JPL Source:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6941 ... 4_full.jpg

The remarkable thing about all this - aside from the sheer, inherent implausibility - is the bigger picture. Take a look at the Martian wasteland. Let it really sink in........

Get a grip, man. You might one day find a lug nut lying in the Alberta plains but let me ask you, would you ever posit evidence of mankind by way of a bloody random search of the remotest Canadian terrain? Then why in the name of all that's reasonable would you expect that to plausibly be a single fossilized squirrel on Mars?!

Somebody who didn't know any better could get the false impression that you knew what you were talking about.

The squirrel is not fossilized, he's lying there in the mid-day sun getting some good vitamin D for himself before he goes back underground where he spends most of his time. A fossilized squirrel would not look like that at all.

Sorry for taking the Micky ( mouse) somewhat.
If You could produce another time picture without Your rodent present???
Then I would be all ears.....like Micky.
Kevin

[Grey Cloud]

I once saw Satan's face in a cloud. [Did I say that aloud?]

If it's a squirrel, where is its tail and what a coincidence that it resembles a North American squirrel and not the European variety. Maybe if the ESA put something on Mars they will find a red squirrel.

Thought: If there were squirrels then there would be stuff that squirrels eat and there would be things that eat squirrels.

[Maol]

And look. There's half a calcified avocado in the lower right! There it is, right next to the miniature Great Pyramid of Giza with the solid titanium sphere on top!

At least you got this nonsense in the right forum category this time.

I think the "avocado" is half of a sliced strawberry, and the upper half is right there just above it, under the right-hand end of the red arrow. Or maybe it's a Brazil Nut. Squirrels like nuts.

[Grey Cloud]

And look. There's half a calcified avocado in the lower right! There it is, right next to the miniature Great Pyramid of Giza with the solid titanium sphere on top!

At least you got this nonsense in the right forum category this time.

I think the "avocado" is half of a sliced strawberry, and the upper half is right there just above it, under the right-hand end of the red arrow. Or maybe it's a Brazil Nut. Squirrels like nuts.

I'm with you on the strawberry. The scale is wrong for an avocado. This is assuming that Martian strawberries and avocados are the same size as the Earth versions. Same is true for squirrels of course.

Personally, I'm leaning towards Kevin's hamster theory. This would help explain why the Martian landscape is made up of biscuit crumbs - sorry, cookie crumbs.

[tholden]

Thought: If there were squirrels then there would be stuff that squirrels eat and there would be things that eat squirrels.

There are.

Unless some catastrophe were to annihilate a planet like Mars altogether, it is not going to kill all the bug, all the mice and rats, all of the small predators which eat mice and rats....

Several of the MSL images show small orange/red wooly-bullies, weasels or foxes or some such, one trying to decide whether or not to try chewing on the wiring harness of the rover itself.