Nasa rover draws a penis on Mars

[Zostrianos]

This made my day :laugh:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/24/mars-rover-penis-nasa_n_3144656.html
Nasa's $800m Mars Exploration Rovers have accidentally drawn a penis.
The twin exploration vehicles Spirit and Opportunity were launched nine years ago, in an effort to search the surface of Mars for signs of water erosion and possibly even life.
According to Nasa, since then the rovers have driven over more than 10km of Martian land, directed by teams back on Earth combined with autonomous cameras designed to avoid potential problems with the terrain.
It appears that part of the robots' programming involves spinning in tight circles to test nearby terrain and find new routes.
Humorously, depending on your age perhaps, that has the unfortunate consequence of drawing a certain shape on the surface, which when discovered by Reddit essentially crashed Nasa's website.


http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1102197/thumbs/o-MARS-570.jpgThe original pic can be seen on Nasa's website here.

[La Guaneña]

This is where taxpayer dollars are going to.

[Kalinin's Facial Hair]

Why. Just... why.

[Bostana]

Thank God. Before seeing this I thought U.S. tax dollars were being wasted

[Art Vandelay]

Haha I saw this on the Colbert report.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

It's nothing new:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hrpk0j.jpg

Cerne Abbas Giant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant)

[Quail]

Yes, "accidentally"...

I guess some people just never grow out of drawing penises on things :lol:

[goalkeeper]

god, whats with the killjoys moaning about tax dollars

[Sasha]

It's the universal sign for "an developed lifeform was here...

[Vanilla]

NASA is run by 12 year old boys now?

[Rusty Shackleford]

It's nothing new:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hrpk0j.jpg

Cerne Abbas Giant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant)

i am now reading about hillforts and the neolithic revolution thanks to you and wikipedia.

[Igor]

NASA is run by 12 year old boys now?

when i think of 'people who are obsessed with drawing dicks' i generally think of people serving in the military and all this makes a lot more sense that way

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

So all us lads who drew all kinds of phalluses on our textbooks in school for giggles...we could have been rocket scientists!!

[Tenka]

It is said to be an accident, but I simply cannot shake the thought that someone just got bored.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Even if was intentional, I don't think that's a valid excuse for anyone to be sourpusses about "tax dollars" or otherwise start being a miserable sack of whinge.

[Pirate Utopian]

I would have done the same.

[Tim Cornelis]

Patriarchy in full effect. Men need to claim everything and violate everything with their penises.

[Sasha]

Mars geswaffeld?

[∞]

Patriarchy in full effect. Men need to claim everything and violate everything with their penises.

wut.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Could they do a flip book effect so that as Mars revolves it shows something like the phallus growing limbs and dancing the robot?
Just a thought.

[Comrade #138672]

My tax dollars! :-(

It is all Obama's fault, you know.

[Goblin]

'murica!

[Doflamingo]

meh, I could draw a better one.

[Orange Juche]

Patriarchy in full effect. Men need to claim everything and violate everything with their penises.

Maybe they plan on putting a vagina on Venus to make all things even.

[human strike]

At first I read the thread title as 'Nasa rover draws a penis on Marx'. :blink:


It's nothing new:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hrpk0j.jpg

Cerne Abbas Giant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant)

We have such a mature sense of humour in Wessex. :)


i am now reading about hillforts and the neolithic revolution thanks to you and wikipedia.

There are lots of theories about how old the Cerne Abbas Giant is but I am pretty persuaded by the argument that it's a satirical representation of Oliver Cromwell made by pissed off Royalists in the 17th century. There was a statue made by Parliamentarians that depicted Cromwell essentially as Hercules so the story goes that the Cerne Abbas Giant is a détournement of that statue.

[rylasasin]

Well when you don't have the budget to do anything else of value, what can you expect?