Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2021/02/23/nasa-hid-an-easter-egg-in-the-parachute-for-perseverance.html
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Literally waving a taunting banner in the face of the God of War. Hubristic but I like it.
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They didn’t use ASCII encoding!!?!
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love this, i was hoping someone would figure out what they were hinting at soon. side note: are all Tiktok users on some kind of drugs? because it seems like all Tiktok users are on some kind of drugs.
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Evidenced by the little white rings in both their pupils. Or are those the now-fashionable tick tock contact lenses?
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Obligs
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After Viking, American probes have all taken much less provocative names. I can just imagine the awkwardness of finally meeting real Martians, and explaining to them, “we’ve named your planet for our most obnoxious tradition. Nothing personal, of course!”
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https://www.google.com/search?q=ring+light
“Special” lights that are not a point light, presumably as to not cast unruly shadows and allows the toker (tok-er?) to appear better.
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Oh, sure, they look just like reflections of ring-lighting rigs, but I prefer the drugs explanation
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No, but the aliens do… or whoever/whatever made this thing:
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Wow, NICE crop “circle”. I wonder how long the college students took to make it, this time?
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And did they do it in the dark? For decades? Never once being caught, leaving a footprint, gum wrapper, anything? Often in a part of the world that only has a few hours of dark, including during heavy storms?
Actually, it was reading Jacques Vallée’s Passport to Magonia over the past week when I learned that “crop circles” have been reported well before the 70s and 80s, which is the timeframe I was under the impression the contemporary manifestation of the phenomenon has been reported (not including folk accounts, which Vallée also documents – I’m talking 1950s and 60s).
And yes this is a bit OT so I will reign it in… 
Crop circles have been duplicated many times publicly, often by university students, imitating the “impossible”/unusual features more-or-less well, each time.
And so on.
Could some of them be legit? Sure, but it seems pretty drastically unlikely, with information like the above at hand.
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We can discuss more via DM if you’d like, but I feel we’ve derailed this thread enough! 
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Or ‘You are only this much market contraction away from Umbrella Corp. being a thing.’ Or they had 10bits, tear off a Chinese codepage and get 40 more words off. Dorm Blighty Figs indeed.
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It’s even more cryptic than that - it’s actually an anagram of:
“High Mind Strategy”.
No? how about:
“Gyrating Meth Dish”?
I’d get rhyming hats?
That’s a nice grey scale that they’ve got going. Obviously crop circles have progressed from a bunch of the lads, stakes and rope.
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Later, in the subterranean caverns that house the indigenous Martian civilization:
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Amatuers.
They also left off the stop bits and the parity bits. These JPL fellas really need to get their act together if they want to get anywhere off this world.
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Are awesome.
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