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Artifacts by Little Green Men?
dsoltesz writes "ASU Mars Odyssey Themis team has released a nice 19m resolution visible-band image of the Cydonia region -- including the infamous Face On Mars, the Pyramid Formation, and the City that many outside of NASA have speculated were built by an intelligent people (presumably Martians or maybe space-faring ancient Egyptians). The ASU Themis team states that finding familar shapes in landforms is a fun diversion, but not a sign that such landforms may be artificial in nature. To get alternate views on the origins of these "structures", check out Jason Martell's Research Network and the Cydonia Mars Pyramids and Sphinx Cherubim and the Stones of Fire pages."
Fortean times has a nice archive of such simulcra
My particular favourite being "rasputin in the ear of a kitten". A definate sign of the lack of intelligence on this planet, at least.
Forget Martians, It's the Cingular wireless logo. This could mean that the Marketing people of Madison Ave are from Mars!!! This would really explain a lot.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
+1 informative!
That's a definate sign of intelligence. Just not a highly developed one. ;^)
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The article is unfortunatly clouded by a strong religous disposition. I feel this is very evident in this quote "The androgynous Cydonia face has a stylized leonine headdress, and computer enhanced photos of the face show that the darkened side seems to be that of a lion, according to Richard Hoagland. This points again to the message of Christ's first advent, Virgo, and second coming to establish the Millennial Kingdom, Leo." Would of been nice for them to put these computer enhanced photos in a place where I can find them. Unless of course these photos consists of the gif animation going in the top right hand corner of the page which transforms the face into what I assume is to be a cherub? I don't know exactly what kind of effects erosion would have but I don't believe it would include severely displacing facial features! Still it's is interesting that the "city", "pyramid", and "face" seem to form an equilateral triangle. Unfortunatly me thinks the "pryamid" is not qite as conclusivly a pyramid as they they to think and I couldn't find a close up pic of the "city". Overall I think it's just a very biased article trying to put give a religous justification to the Mars pics.
I stole this Sig
NASA intentionally smashed the "missing" Mars Polar Lander into the face so that it would no longer resemble the face as it appeared in the 1970's Viking Orbiter photos, but just a "regular mountain".
You can even see cracks on it on the first post-Viking orbiter photo that seem to erode away in later photos, probably due to wind, in subsiquent photos. This implies that the cracks were fresh.
(Well, at least that is one interpretation of the photo history.)
Table-ized A.I.
Here's a couple links with other images of the city (also called the "fort" by some):
Personally, I'm with ASU -- landforms that look like familiar objects are nothing more than that. Looking at the Themis image I can see all kinds of shapes -- for instance the mouthless skull below the face and above the pyramid, and to the left of the hill just below the pyramid appears to be three partially obliterated silos or water tanks in a row (running horizontally).
well put.
I think the best thing would be to forget that most of '98-'02 ever happened.
So wake the fuck up and DO something productive, something that makes money.
one name... bill gates...
the smell simply turns me off
Drink another beer, have another shot, smoke some more crack
and have a few cigarettes and you won't notice, trust me
moron
'tho something along the lines of the smell of steak would be nice
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http://www.enterprisemission.com
j pg shows that he is now comparing the same set of markings it to a M1-A1)
It's a website that's just full of 100% Real artifacts.
Shame the artifacts are what happens when you use Photoshop to magnify something 500%, then completly abuse the filters and levels until you arn't so much looking at the image as a blurred and messy bunch of pixels
Then declare that you can detect "Regularity" and issue a press release / book / start a new talk show circuit.
My favorite (was where he discovered that on the walls of an ancient Egyptian pyramid, there was a hyroglyph that looked like the Millenium Falcon and Luke's Landspeeded(He has since removed that image, as I can't see it in the archive, but http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/tankcomp.
Hoagland, he's not up there with the "Aircraft Contrails are spreading chemicals that destroy our precious bodily fluids" but worth a visit none the less
d00d, dood!
Wow.
Bitter about something? I know a bunch of folks who write code at Microsoft. A good half of them read Slashdot regularly. They make quite a bit of money.
including the infamous Face On Mars
Face, surely that should be faces!
I'm no visionary, but I can see about half a dozen easily in that photo; just like when I peer at clouds or artex, and thats sober.
When I'm stonked (read S#!+ F@(£d), I can see countless faces in everything from ice cream to donkey dung.
p.s. I can also see, at least two pair of boobs, a butt, a lizard face from 'V' and a Star-Fish.
Wow, you have an apartment? That is so cool...
What the hell does this have to do with anything? You could have at least slid the word "Mars" in there somewhere.
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If you'd been troubleshooting frivolous windows problems as long as I have, you would understand.
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