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Poiter, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

A statue like the ones on Easter island!

Ragnell, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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A boat. Specifically one made for taxing through canals.

Xeelee, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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Some Neanderthal skeletons mostly buried in the sand so that it looks like they were just uncovered by erosion

chaogomu, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

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

ArchiesDad, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

That missing sub.

Rednovs,

Sir there's no air on Mars though! They would surely die!?!

XxTriviumxX, (edited ) in What is the most useful website you know?
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https://privacyguides.org community is here: @privacyguides
https://f-droid.org (I use it solely to find FOSS android apps... Then i install the newly found app with Obtainium)

NUL, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

A few planks of wood.

0xtero, (edited ) in What is Kbin’s identity?
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For consistency,

Threads should be renamed to "Articles"
Microblog should be renamed to "Posts".

As for Kbin identity - well.. I guess it's a "user interface to fediverse".

Fediverse, in turn, is a sprawling network that publishes and makes different types of ActivityPub objects available to users.

Kbin has tools to work and interact with some of those object types.

zebus,
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You’ve got a good point, someone should make a userscript to rename the buttons lol

exscape,
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Aren't threads and articles separate concepts on Kbin though? I agree that it's confusing however, and perhaps should be simplified.

My understanding that an article is closer to a reddit text post, while the others (link, photo, video) are all what reddit considers "links".

So articles are threads, but so are links, photos and videos. To be clear, that's my understanding, not fact.

Rhiannax3,
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That would confuse me even more to be honest. A submission that people discuss and reply to is not what I would think of as an article - to me, that would be more like a standalone publication.

I do feel like using different terminology could help in understanding how this all fits together though.

Bizarroland, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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Why not the Great Wall of china? Like not the exact Great Wall of China but a duplicate of it that is one to one scale. It would be clearly visible when people are looking at Mars with relatively strong telescopes so we would know it was there long before we were there

chaogomu,

The great wall isn't visible from Earth orbit. That is a lie that's spread by, well, a lot of people for various reasons.

It would still be something to see if it was on Mars, but you'd have to see it from the surface or with a very powerful orbital telescope.

ivanafterall, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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A "Welcome to Venus" sign. Just imagine their faces, they'd be so confused...

Track_Shovel, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

A 1950s branded household item, like a toy or something that is no longer in production and had a hard end date. I would place or within the path of the rover but in a place it hasn't been yet

wave_walnut, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?
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SOLD OUT

wjrii, in What is Kbin’s identity?
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At the most barebones level, I think kbin was meant to be "Lemmy and mastodon with a cohesive UI on one account." So far it has ended up being, "Lemmy but for people who were eeshy about tankies when they were trying to figure all this out to get away from Reddit."

godemperorofhumility, in If you could place any object on the surface of Mars, purely to confuse NASA scientists, what would it be?

Pioneer 10.

sik0fewl, in What is Kbin’s identity?

I agree the terminology, etc, is confusing. I do hope it gets revamped a bit.

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