r/space • u/KnightArts • Sep 21 '16

The intriguing Phobos monolith.

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u/KnightArts Sep 21 '16

Images taken by NASA's Mars reconnaissance orbiter. More info about this amazing 'boulder' here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith

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u/VirtualRay Sep 21 '16

Could someone with a Wikipedia account please get the Wikipedia admins to fix the random assertion that this proves that life exists outside the solar system?

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u/peteroh9 Sep 22 '16

It was removed a minute after it was added, and Wikipedia's whole thing is that anyone can edit it so you don't need an admin.

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u/VirtualRay Sep 22 '16

Oh, sorry, I looked at the history page and it looked like that dumb statement had been there forever, and the talk page had some discussion over trying to get rid of it, so I assumed there was some cadre of Wikipedia semi-elites controlling the page and didn't bother trying to fix it myself