Mars Rover Spots Metallic 'Arm' Sticking Out Of A Rock

What the What Is This Shiny Metal Protrusion Sticking Out of a Martian Rock?
Curiosity has found something weird. It’s shiny, probably made of metal, and is sticking straight out of a rock like a hand. Has NASA just found signs of intelligent life on Mars? Is it a tool of some kind? Or maybe the metallic foot of a long-dead robot Martian?
NASA doesn’t actually know. The current thinking is that it’s made of some sort of metal, as it’s shiny, and the fact that it’s not covered in dust means it’s probably easily cleaned by the wind, and therefore not rough. It could just be a bit of the rock that’s more resistant to erosion, or some sort of substance that’s actually growing on the rock. Who knows?
Of course, alien hunters are going nuts over this, but I’m sure it’s something explainable. Probably. Either that or it’s a piece of a Cylon Centurion that crash-landed on Mars after an epic interstellar battle. [Universe Today]
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/what-the-hell-is-this-shiny-metal-protrusion-sticking-out-of-a-martian-rock/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/07/mars-rover-spots-metallic-arm_n_2637990.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Robot Arm?

It looks like a gearshift, We had a similar one on our dunebuggy. Or it could be some of that funny blue rock that's all over the place there. I wonder what mineral creates blue rock?

I'm curious as to why its a "non-starter" in American media at the moment. (at least that I've seen) I'm not saying its anything earth shattering, but anything the least bit anomalous on Mars usually generates a lot of press.

I only watch "wretched" "survivor" and the "Big bang theory" so, I haven't seen the MSM in months, and that was just the weather. It will probably take about a week before the administration tells them of it.

BAZINGA! LOL.

onlyoneimage wrote:

BAZINGA! LOL.

That show is so funny!