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ef4 on Oct 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA: Mars rover Curiosity finds bright object

Here's hoping it's the Martian equivalent of an arrowhead. :-)

Or at least, let's hope it's not some critical piece of the rover itself.

saraid216 on Oct 10, 2012 [–]

The first thing that struck me when reading the headline was, "That's exactly the kind of thing we'd do. Drop a shiny thing in front of the foreign lifeform and see what it does with it."

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