Comments on: Great news: Alien base discovered on Mars via Google

By: Owen Glendower

Owen Glendower — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:36:43 +0000

Too bad. I was hoping for a moment like this one, from Edmond Hamilton’s The Haunted Stars:

“To get right down to it, you know the row the Soviets are making over Gassendi, their charges that we have a military missile-base up there?”

They nodded, all except Bogan. Christensen said, “Maybe you’ve wondered why we simply don’t let a Soviet inspection-team look at Gassendi, to disprove the charges?”

Lisetti answered him. “I have wondered. Everybody has wondered.”

Christensen said, “Well, I’ll tell you why we haven’t. We haven’t because we can’t. There is a military base in Gassendi.”

The information was stunning. Speer was the first to speak, and he said incredulously, “You mean—we’ve broken the Neutralization Agreement, and built a missile-base there?”

Christensen shook his head. “I didn’t say that. I said there is a military base, or what’s left of it, in Gassendi. But we didn’t build it. It was there before either the Americans or the Russians reached the Moon. We just found it.”

They stared. Lisetti asked, “But who—how long ago?”

“How long was it there before we got there?” Christensen paused. “As nearly as we can estimate, it’s been there for around thirty thousand years.”

By: TexasDan

TexasDan — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:19:49 +0000

It’s two Starbucks.

KZnextzone on June 6, 2011 at 7:48 PM

That’s funny, right there.

By: jeffn21

jeffn21 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:35:25 +0000

Some people so desparately want to find aliens, they’ll believe anything, lol.

By: Shepherd Lover

Shepherd Lover — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:56:54 +0000

I swear I saw a Thark! Barsoom or bust, baby.

tryptic on June 6, 2011 at 9:35 PM

Boooyeah!!!

Palin/John Carter 2012, Baby!!

By: davidk

davidk — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:37:19 +0000

In other news: Astronomers have discovered a brown ring around Uranus.

(I wasn’t sure if I should post this here or the wedding dress thread.)

By: Gohawgs

Gohawgs — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:14:05 +0000

annoyinglittletwerp on June 7, 2011 at 12:45 AM

Communing with the folks?…Ack, ack, ack

By: annoyinglittletwerp

annoyinglittletwerp — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:45:38 +0000

…give…

Dire!!!?

Gohawgs on June 7, 2011 at 12:37 AM

No Dire-just me.

By: Gohawgs

Gohawgs — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:37:45 +0000

…give…

Dire!!!?

By: Gohawgs

Gohawgs — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:34:14 +0000

Maybe they could the Goracle a call?...

By: Wine_N_Dine

Wine_N_Dine — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:09:33 +0000

The alien in the picture for the front page of this story is slighter better looking than Weiner….

By: Fighton03

Fighton03 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:19:21 +0000

It’s true!!! If you look closely you can see the Capricorn 1 landing site!

By: Caststeel

Caststeel — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:08:32 +0000

Weinergeddon

+1 AP

By: Browncoatone

Browncoatone — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:19:49 +0000

Its obviously an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

vcferlita on June 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM

Of course! Why didn’t we see it before?

By: theotherone

theotherone — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:52:48 +0000

Where’d the Face On Mars go? Have we moved on from that already? Gosh, it seems like it was just yesterday everyone was talking about that.

By: tryptic

tryptic — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:35:47 +0000

I swear I saw a Thark! Barsoom or bust, baby.

By: JavelinaBomb

JavelinaBomb — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:19:38 +0000

What’s the big deal? It looks like the rebel field generators on the planet Hoth. No biggee.

By: El Coqui

El Coqui — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:19:08 +0000

Is actually a Mars Society simulation station to test equipment and personnel for the exploration of Earth.

By: vinceautmorire

vinceautmorire — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:10:08 +0000

Jimmy Hoffa?

All of these worlds are yours, except Europa.

By: BobMbx

BobMbx — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 01:02:16 +0000

Now we know where the $4 trillion bucks was spent….stimulus my ass.

By: Confederate

Confederate — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:58:37 +0000

Hay Allahpundit you forgot one other thing it could be. D) As it is near the pole, and ICE is all around it, it is nothing more than ICE!

By: ebrawer

ebrawer — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:49:28 +0000

What a moron, it’s so low-rez you’ve got maybe 20 pixels grand total.

By: vcferlita

vcferlita — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:43:32 +0000

Its obviously an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:34:31 +0000

As usual, the compelling photographic “evidence” consists of a clump of meaningless pixels. I’ll admit, though, Rorschach-blotching every NASA imaging glitch is indeed more fun than, say, pondering any given day’s Obamanomics-spawned unemployment figures.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:33:06 +0000

Three Soviet astronauts lie mummified since 1978 in their first Mars lander that fell over on relaunch and was covered up by Brezhnev’s Kremlin cronies.

A tiny pixillated hammer and sickle are barely visible on the bottom guidance fin.

By: Southernblogger

Southernblogger — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:17:42 +0000

It is obviously swamp gas, a weather balloon, Hitler’s genius dogs run amuck or optical illusion.