Rodents on Mars

[kunah]

No, rodents or reptiles are impossible.
Bacterial life maybe because that seems to be able to survive just about anything.

Yes! Absolutely a squirrel. Not doubt at all. Face it. It's a squirrel.

[Deleted]

The only thing I want from Mars are the 3-breasted Total Recall women.

[Astroturtle]

When I saw the title, my first thought was "They're going to establish a rodent colony on Mars? AWESOME!"

Sir, I am disappointed!

[kunah]

When I saw the title, my first thought was "They're going to establish a rodent colony on Mars? AWESOME!"

Sir, I am disappointed!

I smell another Obama conspiracy hatching.

[Exac]

What an excellent discovery.

[Nillah]

That teapot looks an awful lot like Hitler.

Bahaha. Ah that will never cease to make me roll my eyes.

I think people are trying way too hard to see these things.

[Mormolyce]

Wait a minute... there's a lemon behind that rock!

[Epuration]

[Deleted]

Looks more like a guinea pig to me.

[Sayl]

I think people are trying way too hard to see these things.

That's my primary source of irritation. We've had the luxury of new discoveries rolling in from Mars on a monthly basis or less for at least the last decade (!), yet somehow they're not exciting enough to the average creduloid.

While io9 was busy milking that same nutter site again to generate page views, they managed to ignore this:

• Solid evidence that Mars had rivers or streams

(In case I haven't already made it abundantly clear in the past: I really despise io9.)

[Kulanae]

The human brain is hard wired for facial recognition and to distinguish other animals and objects. That is why certain rock formations on Mars conjure up all manner of speculation.......because our brains want to see it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatcher_effect

[Loaf Lord]

This is my boy, he travels the universe in his TURDIS raping everything he can.

That really yours? He's cute as hell. Kinda sounds like he's sneezing.

[Kuja]

What are squirrelly overloads? I don't think the athmosphere would be very good for anything that you've seen on earth :P If there was an extraterrestrial squirrel there, it would not look like the squirrels on earth even remotely.

[Deleted]

It's a secret communist weapon, ofcourse.