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Just got posted on some other forum.

Everyone knows there is water on Mars :p

http://www.presencenet.be/spacenews/media/8/20040328-Water%20Mars.jpg

Everyone knows there is water on Mars :p

http://www.presencenet.be/spacenews/media/8/20040328-Water%20Mars.jpg The last time I saw that trick they managed to balance a glass of water on one single mars bar.

Well, that's one way of looking at it. I think that this time they just had a larger budget. ;)

But it dosnt make sense!
"Hey guys! I found water on two marses! Wooo!"

It stood in the newspapers here.
When I showed it to my dad he said about this:
"Heh, that's just fake. NASA needs a bit of money again, so they say 'hey we found water on Mars!!'
Doesn't matter if it's real, they just need a budget again.
Last time they said 'look out people, there's huge ass asteroids comin' at Earth."

Or something like that...
Besides, who says it's WATER? Could be LIQUID/HOT MUD too :p

Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and some combination of soil, silt, and clay.

Good enough for me.

So mars has a slash now and again when no-ones looking? Makes sense to me.

Last time they said 'look out people, there's huge ass asteroids comin' at Earth."Well, they aren't going to keep missing us forever.

But it dosnt make sense!
"Hey guys! I found water on two marses! Wooo!"

No it's the same mars. Just like picking up two rocks from the ground does not create two more planet earths.

Just like picking up two rocks from the ground does not create two more planet earths.

What if I was to put them into orbit around the Sun and they became the centre of a new planet?

Ok, the process of forming a new rock planet would take billions and billions of years, by which time our Sun would probably have gone and the rocks no longer existent as rocks, but you get the basic concept.

No it's the same mars. Just like picking up two rocks from the ground does not create two more planet earths.

No, but it does mean you picked up two rocks rather than a rock.

His point was that the plrual of Mars (the chocolate bar) is Marses. That's why a glass of water on two Marses is not as accurate as a glass of water on a Mars.

They should have just poured some water on a single bar.

Isn't the company that makes them called Mars though? In which case it might still be correct even though there're two of 'em.

Actually, they are called Mars bars, not Mars.

Therefore the plural of Mars bar is Mars bars, not Marses.

So everybody is wrong.

Take that.

*runs*

Isn't the company that makes them called Mars though? In which case it might still be correct even though there're two of 'em.
In that case, a single bar would be a Mars's.

Its possible we may have missed the point of the joke...

Its possible we may have missed the point of the joke...
No, the joke just wasn't funny anyway.

It was the first time somone posted it on BTP. But it soon got old when people started trying to put the mars on water and then water on snickers..

In that case, a single bar would be a Mars's.

Maybe so, but it still wouldn't be apostrophised or spelt that way.

How about if we talk about water on the planet mars, and not a glass of water on two chocolate bars?

I won't be impressed until they find electricity on Mars. A thirteen-amp socket in a crater, with a bit of rusty dust on. That would impress me.

Its possible we may have missed the point of the joke...Choose your words more carefully.

Water on Mars?
That's gonna be a pretty angry bringer of war...

Here's a better picture of water on Mars:http://roselli.org/tour/photos/Oct_ftp/mad_lisa_01.jpg

I won't be impressed until they find electricity on Mars. A thirteen-amp socket in a crater, with a bit of rusty dust on. That would impress me.

I wouldn't be very amazed at that.

I wouldn't be very amazed at that. I have to ask...why?

I have to ask...why?

Because that could get there through a number of strange and unlikely ways.

I would be impressed if they found a TV though.

i think I'd be impressed if they saw somehing invisible on mars.

Or if they found a big red button with the caption "DESTROY EARTH". Hah I so would press it. :p

i think I'd be impressed if they saw somehing invisible on mars.

I would be impressed if they saw a truly invisible object on Earth!

Because that could get there through a number of strange and unlikely ways.
A plug socket in a crater? Sounds like something out of The Hitchhikers Guide of the Galaxy. Of course, you'd take the wrong adaptor for it.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=343

impressed then?

Plasmonic resonance can only be used to "hide" very small objects - microscopically small objects - and usually the effect would only work with objects of a very specific shape and with light of a particular wavelength.

So, scientists have managed to find a way to make you unable to see objects that you can't see anyway?

Good to see funding going to such projects.
Those who take my comment seriously need to be shot. Let's not argue over the details, just laugh at my humour.

Those who take my comment seriously need to be shot. Let's not argue over the details, just laugh at my humour.

nah, let's just say they just discovered it, so no time to improve it yet. (END)

Here's a better picture of water on Mars:http://roselli.org/tour/photos/Oct_ftp/mad_lisa_01.jpgHey, is that Madurodam?

No idea. It's apparently a model of a Mars factory though.

...
I think that's a truck in the background (the yellow thing near his hand) but it also looks like he's holding a box of Timbits or Donuts or something that comes in a rectangular box.

No, it's a model truck. The cab's a much darker colour and blends in with the floor.

No idea. It's apparently a model of a Mars factory though.Looks like Madurodam. It's a very nice model city in the Netherlands. I visited it when I went to stay with one of my Uni friends for a week.

It is Madurodam, I recognize it. It's really pretty and detailed, and displays various parts of the Netherlands *so proud* even Schiphol has got moving planes and sounds, very nicely built :cool:

I got such a great idea for a picture!

*watch this space*

*watch this space**watches*
"meh.. nothing happened" what picture? show it!! now!!!
*leaves*

Looks like Madurodam. It's a very nice model city in the Netherlands. I visited it when I went to stay with one of my Uni friends for a week.
Netherlands kicks ***.... uhhh... butt... doesn't it?

Pity, they dont even have My house in Madurodam...

Pity, they dont even have My house in Madurodam...Make tons of pics, make a model of your house, aks for a fan-place in Madurodam and place it there, with adress n all :P

*watches*
"meh.. nothing happened" what picture? show it!! now!!!
*leaves*

*drags apo back in, slaps picture on the wall*

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???
*edit* T17 saves in jpg! daimn! Uploading somewhere else then!

There

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4029/wateronmarswx0.png

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???
*edit* T17 saves in jpg! daimn! Uploading somewhere else then!

There

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4029/wateronmarswx0.pngThat is just so cool.
What if it's real? :p

*watch this space*

*Still watches*
Ooh the suspense is killing me! :D

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???

Because that is how big your picture was in flash. Just hit transform and make it larger..

You win the thread. Period.

*drags apo back in, slaps picture on the wall*

Why won't flash let me save in higher-res than this???
*edit* T17 saves in jpg! daimn! Uploading somewhere else then!

There

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4029/wateronmarswx0.png I'm confused. Is he peeing or doing something a whole lot more pleasurably behind that rock?

He's peeing.

That alternative hadn't actually occured to me, and I was happier then.

I'm confused. Is he peeing or doing something a whole lot more pleasurably behind that rock?
Wow. You found a more vulgar meaning to a Cisken picture...

Because that is how big your picture was in flash. Just hit transform and make it larger..

Nah, I meant quality, but it's fixed now!

I'm confused. Is he peeing or doing something a whole lot more pleasurably behind that rock?

... he's drunk sooo...maybe he is? *DUN DUN DUUUUN*

Aliens exist!

ALIENS! ALIENS EVERYWHERE!!! AAARRRGGHH!!!