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Easy. Make your outer hull into a thin water tank. Inside that is a similar but smaller "hull tank" for shit. Don't dump the shit overboard, stuff it into the inner tank to stop radiation when the water tank is too empty.
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Peeps see all kinds of stuff on Mars.

Some of those objects are interesting enough to warrant further examination, like the pyramid rock, but if there was life I'm sure it would have been more obviously discovered.

I do not believe NASA would cover up a species of iguanas living on Mars.
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Leisher wrote:I do not believe NASA would cover up a species of iguanas living on Mars.
Their funding would skyrocket if they found anything that hinted of remotely complex alien life.
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If we didn't have pareidolia there'd be none of this sort of nonsense. We'd also do away with ghosts, witchcraft, UFOs, etc.

But then there'd also be much less art, no such thing as cartoons, and no religions. So some people might consider it a net loss.
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Losing all of that would be a net loss. All that stuff makes for awesome entertainment.
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I think there's a reasonable high chance that without the tendency towards pareidolia we'd also not have much in the way of curiosity or a desire for entertainment. I think that at the very root of all of these is our tendency to seek patterns in the world around us even when they aren't there.
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no such thing as cartoons

You can pry my cartoons from my cold, dead hands.
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Merge
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Mars, wetter than your mom after an all-night CHIPs marathon.
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Merged.
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