Chris Lintott is a UK astronomer, cohost of Sky at Night, blogger, Galaxy Zoo cofounder, and cool guy. He dealt with the dumb Martian Bigfoot stuff too, but he went a step — or tread — farther. He made a t-shirt.
Yes, want.
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January 31st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Ha. It’s nice. But maybe the design lacks a bit.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Me says Spirit is a cardboard box on three soda cans.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I’ve ordered mine
Love it!
January 31st, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Frankie says: Relax.
January 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I need that shirt!! I mentioned my supervisor in a previous post, (I know it’s redundant, but I spend 8 hours a day with the kook.) but he went on and on for an entire week about the Mars Bigfoot. . . He went as far as to colorize it, make his own stereograph and make me view it to try to convince me that there really is a female bigfoot chillin on a rock on Mars. *sigh* I need bigger doses of sanity to counteract what I put up with at work. . .
January 31st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Everybody wants a rock to wind a pseudoscience theory around.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
It’s a floor wax! It’s a dessert topping!!
January 31st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I kinda like the minimalist nature to the whole thing….
January 31st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I was just wondering what Richard C. Hoaxland has said about the Martian Bigfoot?
Has anyone heard from him on this subject?
I’ll bet it’s a real hoot.
January 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I agree with Jeff G. I like the design.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Bahhh… I like the idea but the design lacks something. I think if there was an actual picture of the rock, most people would know what it’s about.
January 31st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
The problem is that this might be one of those “forgotten in six months” bits of pseudoscience. After that, you need to start a band called “Spirit Says It’s a Rock”; otherwise, the T-shirt will be meaningless.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I like its simplicity and it could generate conversations – people would ask me what the heck it means. I’m a sap for the rovers, and it’s in red and black, no less. Done deal.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:48 am
It’s so geeky, it’s almost beyond cool!!
Maybe, even, Martian night cool!
“ta-da-boom”!
February 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am
The logo looks more like Sojourner than Spirit, but I still like it.
February 1st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I monkeyed with the picture in Windows Paint so it says “Spirit Rocks”. If I had Photoshop, maybe I could add “And it looks at them, too.”