WHAT more can be said about nasa's rover drawing a penis on Mars?
On Wednesday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen
Colbert presented a segment called “Tiny Triumphs,” in which he
celebrated the fact that the Mars rover is now drawing penises on the
face of the planet, meaning that America is now treating the Earth’s
nearest planetary neighbor like a passed-out frat boy.
“Humanity has accomplished so much over the years,” Colbert began.
“We’ve split the atom. We’ve mapped the human genome. We even put pizza
on a bagel. Now we can have pizza anytime.”
Our next great
frontier,
he said, is Mars. Humans began to send probes and exploration
satellites to the planet in the 1970s. Most recently has been the
Curiosity rover, which has been driving over the planet in search of
signs of life.
With its eight wheels, the Curiosity has “left humanity’s mark” on the planet, Colbert said proudly.
“We
drew a penis!” he said.
“This giant graffiti peenie proves our galactic supremacy,” he went
on to say. “America took a pristine planet, 140 million miles away and
scribbled on it, like it was the face of a passed-out frat boy.”
Watch the video, embedded below
via Comedy Central:
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Mars Rover 'Draws' Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/mars-rover-penis-draws-nasa_n_3148422.html
NASA's
high-tech Curiosity rover may be getting a little cheeky over there on Mars.
In a photo of Curiosity's track patterns, published on the robotics section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory site, the
Mars rover appears to have traced out a very phallic design on the Red Planet's dusty surface.
The rover's picture went viral
after being posted to Reddit's r/funny subreddit page Tuesday, earning close to 40,000 "upvotes" in a matter of a few hours. According to The Huffington Post UK, NASA's
website crashed due to increased traffic as
word of the "drawing" spread.
The car-sized rover landed on Mars last August with a mandate to explore the planet and analyze whether or not
Mars could have supported life forms. Curiosity is controlled by a team of NASA engineers, who
send two sets of instructions to the exploratory craft each day, according to Space.com.
Some of the tracks made by
Curiosity's six wheels can be seen from space and were documented by the HiRise
camera of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in January.
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