Readers may recall when I visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum last year and took this photo of the upcoming exhibit for the new Mars Rover “Curiosity”.
It looked pretty neat…and to everyone’s surprise and thrill it actually made it to Mars and is fully operational. But now, there’s a been a new development on Mars…
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Thank Heaven the caption sticks with “the cat”, rather than “teh kitteh” …
That cat is not killed. Eight lives to go.
Was Kenji involved in this?
http://mahi-mahi.com/images/covers/tethercat.jpg (Lord, I appolgize!)
A sandbox the size of Mars is bound to have a cat somewhere.
” I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too! ” Famous Klingon threat. 🙂
take the contaminated drills for use first. drill the holes using “heavy feeds and speeds” that will heat up the drill enough to kill off the contaminating microbes and they might get away with it.
C
The photo was taken shortly after ‘the cat was let out of the bag’……. ahem.
Cat ‘lovers’ (I’m worried about that….) should not be offended, as the kitty surely has a few of it’s 9 lives left yet!
In the off chance that the kitty’s carcass should ever be returned to earth, to join the skinny kitty enclave at Blackrock, it would indeed be a cat-as-trophy…..
MtK
To all cat lovers, if you look carefully, that is not really a kitten, but one Jimmy Hansen dressed in the ‘cat suit’.
More proof that NASA’s Rover, “Curiosity”, Mars mission is fake! Cats couldn’t breath on Mars!
The entire “Curiosity” mission is being filmed in Nevada near near Area 51, just like the Moon Landings were!
/sarc
well of course.
Dogs are from Mars and cats are from Venus.
There WAS life on Mars.
“Drill bits on rover could contaminate Mars”
I just have to roll my eyes at that. Have the arm hold the drill bits in question up in the sunlight for a few days, then do the @ur momisugly#$%#%^& drilling. Sunlight without oxygen in the air to filter out the UV is *lethal*.
Here’s a Martian cat.
Wait for it.
Darn,darn,darn. Sat here looking at that wondering WTH,until one of my cats,Gunner, hit me upside the head and said “Curiousity,Cat”!!!. Don’t make me think so hard in the AM,Anthony.
And RobRoy. My cat Bailey wants to be on the return “Satisfaction” mission.She thinks that guy is cute(not Mick Jagger).
Darren Potter says:
September 21, 2012 at 11:45 am
More proof that NASA’s Rover, “Curiosity”, Mars mission is fake! Cats couldn’t breath on Mars!
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Perhaps the cat stowed away and escaped when the drill bit container was opened. “Curiosity”, upon noticing the cat was suffering, did the only humane thing it could do, put it out of it’s misery.
(Mods, if the next transmission from “Curiosity” after that picture was sent was the sound of maniacal (mechanical?) laughter, then please delete the “humane” part of that last sentence.)
No offense to cat owners, but this is funny.
Now, if I could only remember my dead cat jokes.
Speaking of humor, I read something yesterday that quickly climbed the charts of my all-time favorites. Apparently a Pakistani man died this week from complications of too much smoke inhalation from burning American flags. Priceless.
Still, not as good as my two all time favorite news stories.
at #2 – an Arizona man (and apartment dweller) who informs his wife he’s going down to the common room to get a soda. After more than a hour, the wife, curious as to what could be taking so long, goes done, only to find her husband lying under the over turned soda machine, dead. Police surmised the machine failed to dispense his soda and the man then tried to “shake” it loose, with the machine falling on him.
at the top spot – a young man in Chicago kills himself while playing Russian Roulette. Following the theater release of the movie “The Deer Hunter” incidences of people killing or seriously wounding themselves copying the Roulette scenes popped up all over the country. What made this one memorable for me was that the guy was playing Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol.
Lemme see if I got this right –
Several thousand lifetimes of carbon footprints just to kill a cat on Mars ?
Mike McMillan says:
September 21, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Your video should be viewed after this one:
As a commenter on your video says: the music makes it a million times funnier.
“He” is not amused…..
http://media.photobucket.com/image/emperor%20of%20cat%20kind/Bellwitch/Cat%2520Macros/Macros%2520made%2520by%2520others/EmperorSeriousCat-1.jpg
ferdberple says:
September 21, 2012 at 8:37 am
Found this on the NASA Curiosity link
Ferd,
Very interesting – Thanks!
MtK
Normally I’d have been amused. Unfortunately on Tuesday I had to put my 14 year old cat down, so you can understand if it wasn’t bringing out a chuckle.
However, that is clever. I like visual puns. And I don’t think there can ever be enough cat pictures on the internet.
That is a white cat with one head and four legs. Martian cats differ materially, notably in the insults they are willing to endure.
Cat-lovers everywhere were not amused by this picture, until they realized that. obviously, ‘Curiousity’ was turning its death-ray on a Martian Warmist dressed in a white cat-suit. Then it all made sense and we were greatly impressed and relieved.
OH NOEZ MAH KAT HAS KNOW JOIND GREENPEAS!
PLZ RETRACT!