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For me i would just place like random paintings, like NASA would be very confused on why Mars would have paintings lmao.

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[–] cyberian_khatru@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would draw the iconic S on the ground.

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[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Sometimes people just come up with brilliance, this is that moment

[–] Kaizo107@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Man, I was gonna saw draw Dickbutt but this is better

[–] pasci_lei@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

The flag of North Korea.

[–] CallMeTHELazer@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Adama@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] deeoh@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better yet, my missing 10mm socket.

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[–] Link9454@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An orb with a print for a three fingered hand.

[–] simplemac@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Quaid... start the reactor...

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

A copy of ET for the Atari 2600

[–] ansik@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] edm00se@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The rocks change in a pattern, I swear it's a single character substitution cipher! Wait a minute... "drink more Ovaltine" what the crap?

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[–] thatdukeluke@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

A waffle house

[–] TooTallSol@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Shouldnt've taken that left at Albuquerque

[–] h3x@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

A giant head of Lenin. It’s a red planet after all.

[–] syrinx20xx@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] syrinx20xx@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

@YolkBrushWork402 - Or possibly Donald Trump.

[–] SalivatingDeadGuy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Came here to say dildo. Im on board. One giant dick for man kind.

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

A "Welcome to Venus" sign. Just imagine their faces, they'd be so confused...

[–] atocci@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A half-eaten tuna sandwich. By the time they manage to retrieve it for examination, it would definitely be all soggy.

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[–] hexadecimal@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

A single horseshoe crab, naturally deceased.

[–] szczur@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

My 1952 soviet bulgaria coin

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

A stainless steel commemorative plaque that says "Site of humanity's first successful time travel experiment - March 13th 2153"

[–] SuburbanHaikuist@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An altered skeleton, half buried. Give it a larger than normal skull or extra long arms or toes or something like that.

[–] YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

That would for sure fuck with NASA scientists

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[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Adama@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] JelloBrains@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mystiick@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

"HELP" or "SOS" in rocks would be pretty funny

[–] FreeBooteR69@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd put an exact replica of the NASA HQ on Mars.

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[–] MrTrono@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Hawne@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

A "Kilroy was here" graffiti.

[–] ArchiesDad@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] owiller@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

A simple message: "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT MARS, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE."

[–] ShellSurf@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd put an empty spacesuit from the Apollo era.

[–] Anarch157a@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Make it a Soviet space suit from the Apollo era. That would cause every politician in the US to shit bricks.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] Merlu@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] chainsawrobot@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

purely to confuse NASA scientists

Ah then it is simple: we place an ESA spacecraft there.

[–] recently_coco@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Ozymandius Statue, with the exact quote from the poem.

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[–] VanillaGorilla@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] CynAq@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A post with the Liberian flag attached to it.

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