Skulls on Mars oh my!

Man, those little green men have funny shaped heads, according to a bunch of nutters who are convinced that the picture to the left here, is of an alien skull on the surface of Mars.
Of course, this begs the question: where's the rest of the body???
Maybe the area used to be a beach and a bunch of little green men were burying a friend of theirs in the sand for fun, when a freak tidal wave came and they had to leave this poor sod in the sand...
Or maybe this guy owed some green gangster a ton of money & so they buried him up to his neck & then let some strange Martian insects eat the flesh off his skull?
And why settle on the idea of little green men? Why not speculate that it's the skull of some ferocious Martian predator that wiped out all other life on Mars, cannibalised on it's own kind and then died off from starvation? All because some clever Martian went back in time to hunt ancient Martian dinosaurs and accidentally stepped on a Martian butterfly...
Sounds crazy right? Then again, so is looking at a rock and calling it a skull!!!
You can read about the insane assumption here.

Glaciers on Mars oh my!

So they've discovered large-ish glaciers on Mars - which holds the promise of Mars being explorable by humans.
Ice means water, and water means hydrogen & oxygen - oxygen to breathe & hydrogen to power engines for the return trip to earth.
Fantastic! So when are they selling tickets & can I bring my own in-flight snacks?

Phoenix lander now with free dvd. (Delivery to Mars only, terms & conditions apply)

Take a look at the round disc on the left of the american flag... Yep, that's a mini dvd. What's on it you ask? Why, an assortment of things; "a message to future Martian explorers, science fiction stories and art inspired by the Red Planet as well as the names of more than a quarter-million earthlings"
Great idea! I'm sure the super-advanced aliens out there that we haven't met yet, all use mini dvd roms... I bet they also read English (& the american version at that), would understand our art and would like to know the names of our people, just in case they want to take over our bodies, or pretend to be one of us in an effort to understand all those splashes of paint we like to call "modern art". :P