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“Snakes on a Planet?” asks the Mars Curiosity Rover to herself, “no, but this sinuous rock formation I spotted on Mars looks like one.” WHATEVER, Mars Curiosity Rover! I’ve had enough of your lies!
NASA calls this sinuous rock feature the Snake River. Which I like, even though it’s neither a snake nor a river. It’s actually a “a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand.”
The science team “plans to get a closer look at it before proceeding to other nearby rocks.” According to Curiosity’s scientist John Grotzinger:
It’s one piece of the puzzle. It has a crosscutting relationship to the surrounding rock and appears to have formed after the deposition of the layer that it transects.
I like when John gets all geologically kinky.
The panorama was taken using Curiosity’s Navigation Camera during the 133rd Martian day of her mission. [NASA]
Oh, link bait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait
I don’t mind Jesus Diaz, but this will certainly lend support to those who dislike him.
Yup. Just like that “story” last year which for absolutely no reason whatsoever showed an old typewriter and claimed it was the ancestor of MacBook Pro with Retina display. Well, there was one reason: an Apple hardware refresh which encouraged Giz to farm clicks to make money. And yet they couldn’t even be bothered to mention Apple in the article to justify the headline. So blatant:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/06/the-first-daisy-wheel-typewriter-is-retina-macbook-pros-great-great-great-great-great-ancestor/
Yes Giz, you’re in this business to make money. Fair enough. But every now and then try to inform, educate and entertain too.
Meanwhile in tech news, Engadget has some….
Article headlines like this are utterly infuriating. What happened to news Giz? This isn’t the word association game…
Please see my response above.
If you want a straight-forward tech site, Engadget is great. But we’re not claiming to be a pure tech site, nor Engadget.
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And I don’t think the protest is about the content so much as it is about the misleading headline.
this reminds me of thunderbirds are go…
I wonder how many people got banned on Giz US for their reaction to this.
Oh, come on Darrell. Lighten up.
sorry, forgot to add the customary smiley at the end. You should know by now when I’m taking the piss, since it’s pretty much always
Trying to resist the urge to throw profanities at Jesus…
Read this quickly and thought it said “throw panties at Jesus” eeeewwwwww.
Nah mate, it’s a rock.
First though: “This sounds like a Jesus Diaz article” *looks at author*… shocking. :-/
#HACK!