NationStates Jolt Archive


Martian Life Could Have Evaded Detection by Viking Landers

Desperate Measures
25-10-2006, 06:42
Now... its really the headline which makes me laugh. Just turn that headline around in your head a few times.


Oh... and I guess if you really want to talk about the article:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061024_mars_viking.html
Beddgelert
25-10-2006, 06:46
That really did have me confused, as I was indeed picturing hairy norsemen charging off their longboats to rape and pillage while a little green dude peeks out from a cornerstone at Lindisfarne, or something.
Snakastan
25-10-2006, 06:52
I guess it is possible......
Potarius
25-10-2006, 06:53
That really did have me confused, as I was indeed picturing hairy norsemen charging off their longboats to rape and pillage while a little green dude peeks out from a cornerstone at Lindisfarne, or something.

*uncoils self from ceiling perch*

I had the same dream!
Desperate Measures
25-10-2006, 06:55
I guess it is possible......

Bunch of drunken looters... how hard could they be to avoid?
Upper Botswavia
25-10-2006, 07:32
America, Mars... those Vikings get everywhere first, don't they?