'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover

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In Fox's defense (I never thought I'd say that), I think they're reporting that a bunch of people are dumb, not that there is life on Mars. Since they pretty clearly talk about pareidolia, I'm going to assume this is their quasi-journalistic way of saying "Look at these idiots", which I can somehow respect.

My opinion on the picture is probably the common one her. It's a rock.

> The “creature” was identified on the UFO Sightings Daily website, where its finder, ScottCWaring, held tight to his opinion: That’s one darn cute rodent on Mars.

I'm not sure what's going on here, but I think it's pretty funny.

Its hilarious, so in one camp you have the people asserting this is proof positive there is life on Mars, and in the other camp you have people asserting this is proof positive that NASA is faking the whole thing and its just in a warehouse somewhere pretending to be on Mars.

Again, a huge benefit of having people there would be to walk over and look at it. In the mean time it would be nice to develop robotic technology that you could rely on to go check something out, without risking having it becoming stuck in a pocket of sand.

Were they just hacked?

It's arguably less ridiculous than the Mars Bigfoot story, and I seem to remember that Fox reported that one too. So I'd say probably not.

If you didn't read the article (which I will assume you didn't given your post), I'll sum it up: They're basically reporting that the 'rat' isn't a rat. It then goes on to treat the subject lightheartedly while providing information on pareidolia and why we 'see' things like the rat.

Damn that rock is cute.

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