OK now continue pretending that it really is a piece of wood, how many planetary scientists would identify it as a rock no matter what it really is? All of you? Unanimous then.

So regardless of whether the object really is a piece of wood or not the planetary scientists are all going to say it is a rock.

OK, suppose one of the pictures had what appeared to be a rectangular piece of wood with the words "Burma Shave" painted on it. Show of hands of all the Planetary Scientists who would explain that away as a rock weathered by Martian sandstorms. Pretty much all of you still huh?

I've seen a lot of rocks in my life – I suspect that so have the rest of the non planetary scientists reading this.

OK, all the normal people: how many of you have ever seen a natural rock that looked like a statue of a girl, or one that looked like a wooden plank? Show of hands – anybody – even a drunk, seriously anyone?

So my question to the planetary scientists is why should anyone listen to you guys?

Deer droppings are also the same size and shape as blueberries. The color and, likely, the taste is different. Maybe those 'blueberries' on Mars are fossilized deer droppings, making them indisputably biological in origin. If they are deer poop, then that means there is a high probability of antelope and buffalo poop piles too (as pointed out in the famous American folk song). Proving the existence of Martian deer would be a huge boon to cheap human spcae travel. Within a week or two there would be fleets of space pickup trucks, with raygun racks in the back indows, as hunters headed for Mars.

I'm 14 years old

I have further reached the conclusion that without a red star, or a hammer & cycle that this is n0t from a Soviet or other Communist source.

Applying this typical thorough and scientific logic my final conclusion is that this plank IS a part of Noah's Arc, and therefore is the property of the Vatican. The specific part of the Arc from which this plank comes will require further investigation and that therefore another $5-billion dollar project should be commissioned to study thje feasibility of sending another lander to take more pictures investigating the feasibility of landing closer to the plank and thereby determine it's exact comnposition without burning the plank by the landing rocket exhaust.

(Did I spell everything right this time?)