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OriginalTurboHobbit t1_j06lqdo wrote

Guess you could try reading the article. First couple of lines should clear things up for ya, Champ.

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kmkmrod t1_j06ltas wrote

It’s a rock.

Why is a rock on Mars newsworthy?

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Xkloid t1_j06n1j4 wrote

It actually was from earth, flew there, and turned into a rock. It happens to all life forms that go there, and it is one of the challenges that space agencies face for manned missions to mars.

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Dearfield t1_j06s43v wrote

What’s the white speck in the lower left corner?

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calibared t1_j06tcwq wrote

I had to squint really hard to see this mythical bird

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Adeldor t1_j06vgix wrote

> "If this rock were a real bird ..." [from the linked article]

Perhaps the poster is young, in which case I give leeway. But if an adult, this question is a terrible indictment on his/her education system. While one cannot know everything, there's an obvious lack of critical thinking, and a quick read of the four sentence article would have answered the question.

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Phillybreadman_54 t1_j076zz6 wrote

Looks like a rock with sand all over it. More if a natural formation

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FUCKYFUCKFUCKYFUCK t1_j07aggj wrote

Well shit, I guess we’ll have a bunch of cool pictures of rocks to look at while the earth is burning

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marche_au_supplice t1_j07cnnd wrote

Replying to Adeldor (#928,255)

What is the utility of this post? Is it to make the OP feel stupid? Is it to demonstrate that you’re such a deep thinker that you not only knew it was a rock, but you recognized the underlying failing that would lead someone to an erroneous conclusion?

I can’t think of any reason other than to build yourself up or put someone else down. If you’re an adult, then this is an indictment on your education system, which apparently never taught you that if you don’t have something nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all.

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Adeldor t1_j07evvk wrote

Replying to marche_au_supplice (#929,195)

The whole article attached to the image is but four sentences long, in which the answer is clear. Yet s/he asks if a rock on Mars is a terrestrial bird! Assuming it isn't a child (for which I made explicit exception), this person is so far afield one might wonder if s/he isn't trolling.

So, the utility of the comment is to hope s/he and others who read it won't do the same thing (again) - post before reading or giving reasonable thought. Admonishment can be useful. Indeed, you're employing such yourself!

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Commercial-Turnip-49 t1_j07f4qy wrote

It's obviously a sculpture of a bird made my the Martian artist-in-residence, Ecoootipil! Clearly y'all don't know your Martian sculptors.

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LookMaNoPride t1_j07fmg5 wrote

Replying to OriginalTurboHobbit (#927,652)

For everyone else

> If this rock were a real bird, it would need to learn new ways to fly. It might be easy to lift off in the weaker gravity of Mars, but staying in flight would be hard. That’s because Mars has a thin atmosphere and low air pressure.

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I-melted t1_j07ilx1 wrote

I only see rocks. What am I meant to be looking at? Which part of the picture?

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pete_68 t1_j07jl67 wrote

You sometimes have to wonder about the people that come up with this shit. Do they look up at the sky, see a cloud and think: Hmm, that cloud looks like a bird. Must be aliens. Or is it just when ordinary stuff on Mars looks like something they recognize that it must be aliens?

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youtookmyusername3 t1_j07kiws wrote

If you have ever traveled in the desert you can see strange erosion patterns like this. They look very much like things we recognize. But it's just what happens when there are dust storms and sand and dirt and rocks.

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Tressticle t1_j07mjp4 wrote

Replying to kmkmrod (#928,031)

What about a rock in the shape of a tool? Or a sculpture. When they find a sculpture of a Da Vinci painting on Mars, it damn well better be newsworthy.

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TheOutlawStarLord t1_j07pv06 wrote

I've got a small plot of land for sale. It is a little swampy and people do tend to go missing on it, but otherwise it is a great bargain.

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440continuer t1_j08f9vq wrote

There’s millions of rocks on Mars, at least one of them is gonna look somewhat like a bird

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