Last week, NASA announced that the Mars rover Opportunity had stumbled upon a mysterious rock that seemed to appear out of nowhere. While the rock did have quite a unique composition, it was likely knocked into place by the rover as it maneuvered around the area. There is still much to be understood about the rock, but one man is filing a lawsuit against the space administration for failing to identify the fact that it was an extraterrestrial lifeform… according to him…
The petition, filed in a California court, takes aim at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Chief Administrator Charles Bolden, calling for a writ of mandamus for NASA to investigate the “putative biological organism” more closely. Apparently, Joseph feels that the mystery rock is not a rock at all, and it wasn’t randomly knocked into its present location. Instead, according to the lawsuit, the object is actually an alien organism that was there the entire time, but grew over the course of those twelve Martian sols to its present size. Joseph believes the object is actually a mushroom-like fungus that reproduces with spores.
via I Fucking Love Science
