Told ya! We are not alone
Wed, 2008-01-23 20:27
#1
Told ya! We are not alone
Wed, 2008-01-23 20:27
#2
It would have been nice to have picked up a few footprints. Perhaps on another pass of Spirit, it will show whether this person has moved or is still in meditation.
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7205004.stm]Earth to Martian, "Hi there"[/url]
Wed, 2008-01-23 21:34
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remind
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But the consensus seemed to be that it bore a striking resemblance to the Little Mermaid statue in the Danish capital, Copenhagen.Poster "Madurobob" said it was a statue "obviously built by an ancient civilisation that later departed Mars and settled Denmark".
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[img]http://www.simonho.org/images/Blog/Copenhagen_Mermaid_Small.jpg[/img]
![http://www.simonho.org/images/Blog/Copenhagen_Mermaid_Small.jpg[/img]](http://www.simonho.org/images/Blog/Copenhagen_Mermaid_Small.jpg[/img]){kind=link}
[ 23 January 2008: Message edited by: remind ]
Wed, 2008-01-23 22:30
#4
Lard Tunderin Jeezus
The image in question:
[img]http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/in_pictures_enl_12010...
[ 23 January 2008: Message edited by: Lard Tunderin' Jeezus ]
Wed, 2008-01-23 22:47
#5
Doesn't look very fertile - the ground, that is. Maybe he/she/it has the hand out for a food parcel - and maybe...a beer?
Thu, 2008-01-24 01:03
#6
Ha, could have fooled me. If it is only a few feet away from the camera, things don't look right. Soil is laid down here on earth about one inch every thousand years and averaging three feet around the world - silt and sand a lot more rapidly, I believe. If the sedimentary layers in the Martian rock are just 1 cm thick even, then that's my perspective.
[url=http://ufo-media.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id... over San Diego[/url] 2008
Thu, 2008-01-24 05:50
#7
Fidel,
That UFO sighting over San Diego was quite impressive, but I'm not persuaded. Possibly some prankster strung together some of those orange garbage bags after placing a lighted candle in each.
Pretty good YouTube fare though.
National, International, Other-worldly. Perhaps this calls for another category of forum. [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]
Thu, 2008-01-24 06:03
#8
Thu, 2008-01-24 07:48
#9
Well, UFO visitors, and the possibility of life existing elsewhere, are really separate topics. This latest figure on Mars doesn't really say anything about either one.
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that this is a living being, or a statue left by one.
Planetary geologist Emily Lakdawalla does a good job debunking here: [url=http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001305/]Teeny little Bigfoot on Mars[/url]. The feature in question is apparently a highly magnified tiny part of a big panorama, and is only a few meters from the rover. She calculates that it is no more than about 6 cm. in height.
[url=http://www.planetary.org/image/A1366_9_West_Valley_half.jpg]Here[/url] is a large image of the panorama it is taken from[/url]; I can't even find the little guy. Much more interesting to me is what looks like sedimentary rock eroded in layers, near the lower left corner of the image. I'm no geologist, but I'd be surprised if liquid water on the surface didn't have a hand in shaping rocks like that.
![http://www.planetary.org/image/A1366_9_West_Valley_half.jpg]Here[/url]](http://www.planetary.org/image/A1366_9_West_Valley_half.jpg]Here[/url]){kind=link}
This reminds me of "the face" on Mars that was supposed to be some kind of alien sculpture shown in a photograph by the Viking spacecraft in 1976:
[img]http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/cyberspace/planets/mars/images/mars006.j...
Later images made Egyptian-like Martians seem [url=http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast24may_1.htm]rather less likely[/url]...
[img]http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/cydonia/threefaces.gif[/img]
![http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/cydonia/threefaces.gif[/img]](http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/images/cydonia/threefaces.gif[/img]){kind=link}
That face was a mesa many kilometers across, and this latest statue is really a tiny figurine. So I'm not sure whether we're dealing with huge aliens or tiny ones, but either way, this other image of Mars clearly shows that they are happy to see us:
[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/54799main_mars_smiley_face.gif[/img]
![http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/54799main_mars_smiley_face.gif[/img]](http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/54799main_mars_smiley_face.gif[/img]){kind=link}
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[ 24 January 2008: Message edited by: Albireo ]
Thu, 2008-01-24 11:16
#10
It really is amazing what you can do with your computer when you have PhotoShop installed. [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]
[ 24 January 2008: Message edited by: 1234567 ]
Thu, 2008-01-24 15:43
#11
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It really is amazing what you can do with your computer when you have PhotoShop installed.
Yes, even a beach or a table top with some sand and a few rocks.
But still, considering the billions/trillions of spheres that the universe comprises, I can't help feeling it a little arrogant to assume our beautiful world to be the only one supporting life.
And such life, should it ever be encountered, is quite likely to be exceptionally different in size and every respect to what we might expect.
Thu, 2008-01-24 15:56
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Originally posted by bliter:
[b] Possibly some prankster strung together some of those orange garbage bags after placing a lighted candle in each.[/b]
That's it! I knew there was an explanation. But you know, I think they've been back-engineering crashed UFO's since at least the 1940's. There were photos snapped of these things in the 19th century, a time when there was no such thing as PhotoShop or home computers. Some fairly [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ALLUuvsVkM]credible people[/url] are either all the way nuts or telling what they believe is the truth. And you're right, this is neither the time or the thread. I now return us to invaders from Mars.