News Brief by Kip Hansen — 21 July 2022
I am forever being plagued by finding bits of string and twine and yarn in odd places in my home, yard, boat and car. Now, pollution by odd bits of twine and string have reached CRISIS PROPORTIONS, affecting even other planets in our own solar system!
Megan Marples, CNN journalist, reports: “Mysterious bundle of string on Mars’ surface found by Perseverance rover”. ( quotes below from this article) This image is provided by NASA…and so far, at least, no one has suggested that this incident is proof of String Theory, but it is Proof of String on Mars and, if on Mars, who is to say that anthropogenic string pollution has not found its way to other planets in our own solar system or even far-flung exo-planets. There is no telling how dangerous String Pollution may be to any life that may exist there.
If not exactly proof of string theory in general, some think it might be supporting evidence of Spaghetti Theory, a tangled sub-set of String Theory: “The rover’s front left hazard avoidance camera took a photo of the light-colored object on July 12 that some people likened to spaghetti.”
NASA and JPL are making a solid effort to explain away the finding:
“The string could be from the rover or its descent stage, a component similar to a rocket-powered jet pack used to safely lower the rover to the planet’s surface, according to a spokesperson for the Perseverance mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.”
“Perseverance had not previously been in the area where the string was found, so it’s likely the wind blew it there, the spokesperson said.“
It does not surprise this author that neither JPL or NASA has supplied any information that shows that the rocket-powered jet-pack or the Rover itself actually used such a piece of string anywhere in its construction. I mean, really, if you were building a rocket to Mars, would you tie things together with bits of string?
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Author’s Comment:
I had always blamed my four kids for the String Pollution I encountered in home, yard, car and boat. But I am certain that none of them have ever been to Mars – so they have a solid alibi in this case.
Do you have any suspects?
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Obviously this was the center of a vast ancient Martian ocean.
All that remains of that ocean and its vast “garbage patch” of plastic waste is this little bit of fishing line.
Gunga ==> Hmmmm…quite possible….Martian Garbage Patch….would be be bigger than what? The Hellas crater?
🤣 🤣 But of course!
And the beer cans, Gunga Din? Where are they?
H.R. ==> You have not been keeping up….once the oceans dried up, the Clean Green Activists roamed the dry ocean floors and recycled all the cans to make Tin Hats for all the kooks in California.
Martians! The first Greenies!
(Were they “little green he/she/its”?)
Where are the other 71 genders? Are you trying to offend the others by not acknowledging them? Be careful with your microagressions. You will hurt
someone’ssomethings feelings.Forget the string.
Is that a fossil swiss army knife in the upper right?
Gunga ==> Dang—I wondered where I dropped that!
I think they are just stringing us along to distract from the disaster caused by their fake climate emergency rhetoric.
Andy ==> Yes, maybe it is yet another NASA FAKE — intended to distract us from problems on Earth, like malaria and poverty and hunger in the 3rd World.
Oh no. Didn’t anyone consider before using string, that a rock, or something might get caught in it??
Jeff ==> We can see from the photo that the nearby rocks have had a lucky escape from entanglement…but the Rover covers only a infinitesimal percentage of the Mars surface area, other rocks may not have been so fortunate.
I think that rock to the left is an infinity stone.
(They better tilt the camera up to see if Thanos is near!)
For God’s sake tell NASA not to pull on that string. The whole planet could unravel like a cheap sweater!
Hoyt ==> Or this whole story could unravel…..
Certain mementos are carried to Mars aboard our spacecraft and it is only fitting that string from the Cavendish laboratory made it to the Red Planet — the Cavendish being where the constituents of the atom were discovered by JJ Thomson and Ernest Rutherford where string and sealing wax were significant components of their laboratory apparatus.
Thomas ==> Are string and sealing wax still in wide use at JPL? That would explain a lot.
Hansen, have you been drinking and posting again?
Richard ==> Thinking and posting, Yes!
Dig down a little deeper and the skull will be visible. Deeper yet and the entire mummy, with the wispy red hair, will confirm the Ancient Alien theory. (even deeper and CAGW theory may be confirmed).
DonM ==> I think that NASA would have to consult with leaders of the Martian Aboriginal Tribes/Martian First Nations chiefs before even considering touching the artifact in that case….
And then, like today, how do you return an artifact to a Native People who no longer actually exist?
It could be left over string from a sandwich wrapper on Devon Island.
I reckon it’s fake news. It IS CNN after all.
(Or even someone having a larf! Though hard to imagine at CNN.)
JCalvertN ==> My good man (or, woman as the case may be), the seriousness of the interplanetary String Pollution Crisis is no laughing matter!
If it is allowed to continue, who knows what will get all tangled up in all that string.
No sir! This is not Fake News (you buffoon!) You probably think the Moon Landing was a fake too … and I watched that live on TV!
It would at first glance appear that the age old question of
“How long is a piece of string?” has been answered.
But now I’m a frayed knot
Birdy => Nicely in the spirit of this thing……
Some of us will go to any lengths.
Have you seen my coat?