If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
For me i would just place like random paintings, like NASA would be very confused on why Mars would have paintings lmao.
I would draw the iconic S on the ground.
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Sometimes people just come up with brilliance, this is that moment
Man, I was gonna saw draw Dickbutt but this is better
The flag of North Korea.
Something simple, like a bolt from one of the rovers. But make sure it's from one that has never been in that half of the planet.
A standard automotive bolt. Maybe something that was ubiquitous in the 1950’s but isn’t used today in place of something cheaper and more reliable
A newspaper from the day of the moon landing
Better yet, my missing 10mm socket.
It's always the 10mm
An orb with a print for a three fingered hand.
Quaid... start the reactor...
Elon Musk
I was thinking a slab of granite with "ELON MUSK; 28-JUN-1971 - 31-MAR-2022" carved into it.
We could only be so lucky.
A copy of ET for the Atari 2600
A waffle house
Not a single act, but a series of actions. The rovers power down during Martian nights, right? So, during these periods, you could rearrange the rocks nearby. At first, NASA might not even pick up on the changes, but eventually, someone's bound to notice.
Imagine the buzz it would create! The scientists studying the photographs sent back by the rovers would be left scratching their heads. They'd probably first suspect some unknown natural phenomena, or even the rovers themselves, until the changes became too orchestrated to explain away. It would be a cosmic puzzle, a Martian mystery that would have them combing through data for answers.
No extraordinary or unnatural objects, just ordinary Martian rocks moved around. Instead of presenting them with an object that screams 'alien intervention,' you'd be nudging them into a mystery, all with the Martian surface's naturally occurring elements.
The rocks change in a pattern, I swear it's a single character substitution cipher! Wait a minute... "drink more Ovaltine" what the crap?
That would definitely fuck with NASA, i can already see Youtube Videos being made about this and their being theories and stuff. This would also be very interesting, how would the Governments react to this? How will UFO Conspiracy Theorists respond to this?
Continue to escalate the situation until it reaches a fever pitch, then stop cold for a week
A half-eaten tuna sandwich. By the time they manage to retrieve it for examination, it would definitely be all soggy.
NSFW
Great for catching tigers though.
My body in a lawn chair, with my right thumb extended out for hitchhiking, my left hand holding an American flag, and a sign in my lap saying "California or bust!"
Shouldnt've taken that left at Albuquerque
@YolkBrushWork402 - A giant florescent dildo.
@YolkBrushWork402 - Or possibly Donald Trump.
Came here to say dildo. Im on board. One giant dick for man kind.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find the only right answer.
A "Welcome to Venus" sign. Just imagine their faces, they'd be so confused...
A giant head of Lenin. It’s a red planet after all.
An altered skeleton, half buried. Give it a larger than normal skull or extra long arms or toes or something like that.
That would for sure fuck with NASA scientists
My 1952 soviet bulgaria coin
A stainless steel commemorative plaque that says "Site of humanity's first successful time travel experiment - March 13th 2153"
A single horseshoe crab, naturally deceased.
A dinosaur skeleton
Human skeleton would work, too.
A sealed hab dome, containing a fish breeding tank that outputs a portion every so often into another tank, and a flock of penguins. There are also penguin shaped space suits mounted next to the air locks
Ooh. A small broken octagonal habitat shape with the fossilized remains of dolphin bones and dolphin shaped mechanized suits. As well as some kind of buried damaged “launch pad” that could fit a decent sized ship.
Wait… that would be less confusing and more exciting as a earths history kind of thing.
Dildo
I'd put an exact replica of the NASA HQ on Mars.
Haha, I was going to say an exact replica of the Curiosity rover.
Assuming size is not an object, a pyramid; doesn't matter if it's Myan, Aztec, or Egyptian, heck make it a mix, and have it buried in a mound of dirt or in a mountain with just parts of it sticking out.
Or if we aren't going supernatural teleportation of items, I'd think something like the person who said moving rocks around, maybe lay rocks out in shapes like roads or the foundations of houses.
"HELP" or "SOS" in rocks would be pretty funny
A "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
@YolkBrushWork402 A human skeleton.
Even worse: a complete neanderthal skeleton
A simple message: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT MARS, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."
Mars bar
I'd put an empty spacesuit from the Apollo era.
Make it a Soviet space suit from the Apollo era. That would cause every politician in the US to shit bricks.
Why stop at spacesuit? Put lunar landing module and American flag in configuration like they were on the moon. Suggesting that moon landing was indeed a fake, and they did everything on Mars.
That missing sub.
Sir there's no air on Mars though! They would surely die!?!
1960's era microwave oven.
A private property sign.
Stranger, yer a-trespassin’ on my dirt farm.
A German flag colored towel
Something that's flying around here as well, and often. Maybe they wouldn't even realize that it doesn't belong there at first. Like a condom wrapper or a dog turd.
How about a live seagull?
purely to confuse NASA scientists
Ah then it is simple: we place an ESA spacecraft there.
The Ozymandius Statue, with the exact quote from the poem.
What was the quote?
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
A post with the Liberian flag attached to it.
Liberian Pride 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
A boat. Specifically one made for taxing through canals.
I'm thinking either the golden disk from Voyager, or the puzzle box prop from Hellraiser.
If I would have to put it now to be discovered in - lets say- next week - black monolit from Space Odyssey
If i could put it back in time - replika of some ancient piramid with gliphs stating that human flow to Mars to help martians to build the pyramid
SOLD OUT
"They will look just like you. Do not trust them."
Pioneer 10.
Maybe a Roman coin hoard?
A Viking longboat.
Rick Astley
A pen lid with the long bit broken off, a shopping trolly token, 1 threadbare sock, a novelty rubber (eraser), and one of those black twisty wires that are used to tie up new USB cables, all sealed in a sandwich bag with 'aubergine curry' written on it in janky handwriting.
Why all this random rubbish? Because it'll absolutely screw with their brains!
A throne with a skeleton decked out in ancient roman clothing.
A sign that says "Moved to Earth"
A green 1987 Lada Niva.
A statue like the ones on Easter island!