Which happens first? Phoenix Lander finds ice on Mars or Karl Rove removed from Fox News?

Rover/Rove ... ice/iced ....

Very cute question(if it doesn't get flagged by a superuser for their opinion of correct odds like 90% of the last questions, oops wrong odds it should be 88%)

Well.. the one that recently landed is a LANDER it does not rove, so is this asking if any of the rovers that landed before that are still ROVING will find ice? ifso the percentages are off... to suspend or not to suspend?

Its just a technicality. Just let someone clarify that for the question "rover" refers to the Phoenix lander. We can clearly get to the common sense point of the question. I don't think it will be a problem, but we should certainly have a clarification in the market about that.

Well it may be common sense to you, but what about someone who doesn't speak/type native English, secondly I almost bet on "Rover does not find ice" because a ROVER probably wouldn't; so a technicality, but one that changes the whole meaning of the question.

@ skipper

Thank you for the erudite clarification of my error, yes Jen, my intention was the craft that just recently landed, the Lander, which I have now given the honorary nickname of "Rover." Will that suffice? I was merely trying to have a spot of fun and make a play on the similar words between Rover and Rove and finding ice or being put on ice due to Rove's recent subpoena and how this might affect his employment. If one of the long lost Rovers did decide to mosey over to the Lander, that would be a story indeed. Also regarding the other market about the Lander/Rover not being equipped to find life, I suppose if some life form waddles, walks, slithers, flies or otherwise approaches the Lander and is caught on film, it would seem to be fairly conclusive, even though it's not in the spectrum of the anticipated testing. You know, like the scene in Transformers from Mars of the short video clip that showed the Transformer attacking the craft? lol. I know it's far fetched, I hope I've clarified this to your satisfaction.

When's the expiration date (it disappears when suspended)? If it's far enough away, then this question just needs an edit to the background text explaining the Lander/Rover thing. Otherwise it's a great question and hopefully will be back on line soon.

@ skipper,

May I request an expiration date of 12/31/08 please?

Thank you.

Unfortunately superusers can't unsuspend a market they've suspended. It has to be an admin. I've sent a flag about this question asking it to be "cleaned up" about rovers and landers and then re-opened ASAP. Maybe if you (valornhonor) did the same, and asked for the suspend date, it would happen sooner.

Hi,

I usually respond to everyone's emails, but for example today I had around 75 when I first woke up (damn you Clinton!!!). Anyway I've fixed up the market best I can seems fit to work. Although I did have to significantly change the market question text as many users would probably get confused by it.

Regards,

Ryan
Hubdub Category Editor

Thanks Ryan, kind of takes the punch out of my pun, but thanks, at least it's accurate now.