*YES THERE IS A FUCKING MONOLITH ON MARS*

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*YES THERE IS A FUCKING MONOLITH ON MARS*

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THIS mysterious monument could be proof there was once life on Mars.
The rectangular structure — measuring five metres across — was photographed by a super high resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The giant monolith juts out of the planet's surface casting a huge shadow below.

Its emergence on website Lunar Explorer Italia has got space buffs speculating if it could have been constructed by creatures once living on the red planet. The monument resembles the black monolith seen in Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the movie the structure is believed to be a key to man's evolution.

And astonishingly Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, revealed a similar monolith was detected on Mars' moon Phobos. Speaking last week, he insisted: "We should visit the moons of Mars. "There's a monolith there - a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars once every seven hours. "When people find out about that they are going to say, 'Who put that there? Who put that there?'"

But scientists at the University of Arizona have cast doubt on the discovery saying the huge object is a "boulder". A spokesman for the university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said: "It would be unwise to refer to it as a 'monolith' or 'structure' because that implies something artificial, like it was put there by someone for example. "In reality it's more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature."
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Um, that's a fin of a Martian sand shark. Duh.
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John Carter's fridge.
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eumaas wrote:John Carter's fridge.
It'd be crazier if it was Ron Carter's fridge.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:John Carter's fridge.
It'd be crazier if it was Ron Carter's fridge.
The bassist/cellist?
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eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:John Carter's fridge.
It'd be crazier if it was Ron Carter's fridge.
The bassist/cellist?
Word. Didn't know he played cello though.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:John Carter's fridge.
It'd be crazier if it was Ron Carter's fridge.
The bassist/cellist?
Word. Didn't know he played cello though.
Yep, on Dolphy's Out There, plus another date with Dolphy and Mal Waldron.
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eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:John Carter's fridge.
It'd be crazier if it was Ron Carter's fridge.
The bassist/cellist?
Word. Didn't know he played cello though.
Yep, on Dolphy's Out There, plus another date with Dolphy and Mal Waldron.
Roy Haynes plays on that one. Dolphy knows talent when he sees it. How is the album?
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote: It'd be crazier if it was Ron Carter's fridge.
The bassist/cellist?
Word. Didn't know he played cello though.
Yep, on Dolphy's Out There, plus another date with Dolphy and Mal Waldron.
Roy Haynes plays on that one. Dolphy knows talent when he sees it. How is the album?
Good. Not as good as Out to Lunch or Last Date, but good.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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Oh for hip hop fans that aren't huge into jazz, Ron Carter plays on the tune "Verses From the Abstract" on ATCQ's Low End Theory. Q-Tip calls him out about 12 times in the song if I remember him correctly.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Thread drift was sudden, comprehensive and welcome.
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Heston wrote:Thread drift was sudden, comprehensive and welcome.
That's a beautiful sentence, Heston.

By the way, my first contribution was on topic!
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eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote: The bassist/cellist?
Word. Didn't know he played cello though.
Yep, on Dolphy's Out There, plus another date with Dolphy and Mal Waldron.
Roy Haynes plays on that one. Dolphy knows talent when he sees it. How is the album?
Good. Not as good as Out to Lunch or Last Date, but good.
Carter has since mentioned that his playing on Out There is a little substandard because he had a massive cold that day.
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Kory Pox wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote: Word. Didn't know he played cello though.
Yep, on Dolphy's Out There, plus another date with Dolphy and Mal Waldron.
Roy Haynes plays on that one. Dolphy knows talent when he sees it. How is the album?
Good. Not as good as Out to Lunch or Last Date, but good.
Carter has since mentioned that his playing on Out There is a little substandard because he had a massive cold that day.
His intonation is noticeably off at times.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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I'd like to congratulate the Chinese on building a perfect replica of the movie studio that the Americans used to fake the moon landings.
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