Turns out rocks are rocks. (I’m a geologist I an I approve of this message)
Interesting that Dean Norris was on Mars and has a special interest inrocksminerals.Hey you show some got dang respect. He knew it was an ugly planet, a bug planet, and he did something about it. No more bugs on Mars. You’re welcome.
Those particular rocks seem to be sandstone, though… which would pretty much be proof of liquid water having existed at some point.
Rocks are rocks, sure… but rocks tell stories, and these ones are telling a story that, while common and somewhat uninteresting on Earth, is quite interesting indeed when told on Mars.
You are totally right. I was going to make a big post about how they actually formed but I deleted it halfway through. These rocks are definitely significant in that the same processes on earth happen on Mars so we can infer how they were deposited and formed. Hence my shitty first comment, rocks are rocks.
Dirt is dirt.
Surprisingly less true!
I cum mud!
Soo we have a better GPU
It’s just the ray tracing
Take my upvote!
Wheres the Gorn?
Looking for a big rock
I’ve been to the Vasquez Rocks where that was shot. It’s right by a freeway that definitely also existed in the 60s. They had to use some very creative camera work in terms of where they pointed it. It’s kind of impressive.
They’re gorn.
Those clouds are doing a lot of talking in the picture on the right
That’s how I figured which was which (I don’t have the ability to quickly figure out left from right like most people have, so that left me time to play at guessing).
I don’t have the ability to quickly figure out left from right
As a kid I used to use which wrist my watch was on as a reference (I couldn’t tell right from left, but I did know which wrist to put it on, most of the time). Of course with smartphones being a thing I no longer use a watch, but at this point the brain seems to have learnt to do it automatically. A ring, or wristband, or something like that would also work, probably.
But even then… do they mean my right, or the screen’s right…? Or the picture’s…? I never know, and a watch won’t help with that…
In my case I remember with which hand I use the mouse. But I never could get this to be automatic.
I still sometimes hold my hands in front of me and see which one makes a natural L shape with index finger and thumb.
Good to know I’m not alone with this “disability”.
Looks like a nice day on Mars. Apart from it being -70C out.
So no Mr Bluesky on Mars?
If only he would tell us why he had to hide away, for so long :(
Where did we go wrong?
Mars has blue sunsets though.
Aeolian erosion do be like that though.
Mmmm that’s some good choss! Do you happen to know where the photo on the right was taken? My geoguessr brain wants to put a pin on Kanab, Utah
I believe it’s the Atacama desert in Chile, according to a reverse image search.
Woah, cool, I never would have guessed! I should have thought to use reverse image search, haha. Thanks!
It was harder to identify than I expected, because the article I found was from Chile, and my Spanish is rusty. Lol
If you find this interesting, you would probably enjoy the Mars Guy youtube channel. Weekly updates on the latest rovings of Perseverance.
I dont know what camera they used but that zoom is crazy
Captured on my Samsung Galaxy s22
Mars looks like Southern California in Star Trek in the 60s.
Says a lot for how much they were able to accomplish thematically with environments like that. Iconic
i wonder if humanoid aliens would be a common thing throughout the universe
like a mass effect sorta thing
Crabs are much more likely. Everything turns into crabs, eventually.
“Everything” with our sort of molecule for storing information. DNA might not be the only way.
It’s not about DNA; it’s about “crab-like” being an optimal shape for something that has to move itself in and manipulate a variety of environments.
It doesn’t matter if it’s an arthropod or a robot. Crab-like is almost always optimal.
Optimal for Earth environments.
A crab body would not work if life evolved on a gas giant.
i was thinking more on the convergent evolution side, since the worlds seem to be similar? but panspermia is a cool concept too.
If it’s gonna be convergent evolution, all the aliens are probably crab people
crab people crab people
That’s a humanoid wet dream! You wouldn’t need a schlob to mebeep for sexy times when you can just whip out the ol’ sausage.
Idiots on Facebook are probably claiming that the image is fake, and using it as ‘proof’ that Mars doesn’t exist or something.
Mars hasn’t this nice blue sky. Come on Cohaagen, give these people air… um… I mean an atmosphere.
Ah, so Mars is socialist.
