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Question of the Week: What Do You Hope NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds on Mars?

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By Velvet Roper staff 8/22/12 3:50pm

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NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been sending back incredible images of the red planet for two weeks now, finally made a move today. It inched just ten feet forward and then paused to photograph its tracks. Slow going, but every celebrity we’ve encountered this week has been ecstatic about the development! The mission’s stated goals are to explore and analyze the climate and geography of Mars, but don’t we all hope for it to find something more exciting? Something unexpected?

We collected celebrities’ answers to this very question: What do you hope NASA’s Curiosity rover finds on Mars? Click through the slideshow for their (surprising) answers.
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What's that in the distance?

One of the first images sent from NASA's Curiosity Rover. (Getty Images)
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Andrew Ross Sorkin

"Life. Is that what everyone says, though? I mean, some life form! That’s what I want it to find! I hope there’s something out there!"
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Todd Oldham

“Wouldn’t it be nice to see some totally alternative version of living? That would be the most fantastic thing. Just not like, a Chick Fil-A.”
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Billy Magnussen

"Air, right?"
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Ezra Miller

"Intelligent life. That plans on killing us. Like, how cool would it be to have a giant jellyfish thing come down and be like, 'That’s it'?"
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Savannah Wise

“Cheese.”
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Bob Simon

“Some pâté de fois gras would be pretty good.”
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Taissa Farmiga

“Something. I just hope we find something!”
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Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

"Maybe it’s just selfish, but I hope they find my headshot up there. Everyone would be so surprised, and I could just shrug and say, 'Oh, maybe they’re just The Wire fans.'"
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Craig Zobel, director of Compliance

“Footprints! Footprints of some sort. That would keep up hope. Footprints would still leave a little bit of mystery.”