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Artifacts by Little Green Men?

Posted by michael on from the probably-not dept.

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."

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  1. yeah see this shit everywhere dudes by President+Chimp+Toe · · Score: 2

    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.

  2. Corporate Logo shows to the lower left of image by infonography · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  3. Very poor article by quantaman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Itsa Conspiracy by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny


    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.)

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    1. Re:Itsa Conspiracy by Tycho · · Score: 2, Informative

      For the Mars Polar Lander to have destroyed a hypothetical face on Mars, NASA would have had to launched something with the size and the mass of the Sears Tower at it. If NASA could launch an object like that from the surface of the Earth with the technology we have today or for that matter, that we might have in fifty years, I'm almost totally certain that NASA would find something better to do with its time and money. It would have been even more stupid if NASA had built such an object in orbit and launched it at Mars. Seriously, there is no face, there never was a face and what you thought you saw was just the interaction of light and shadow off of an interestingly shaped mountain.

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    2. Re:Itsa Conspiracy by jonerik · · Score: 2

      Seriously, there is no face, there never was a face and what you thought you saw was just the interaction of light and shadow off of an interestingly shaped mountain.

      Ah ha! That's exactly what you want us to believe, isn't it, Mr. Shadowy Government Official?
      My theory is that the Mars Observer probe, which mysteriously "vanished" in 1993, was actually armed with a nuclear device, which heavily damaged the face when it impacted on the planet's surface. By the time the Mars Global Surveyor had arrived in 1997, the dust stirred up by the explosion had long since settled. I think that the eventual show trial of the responsible NASA officials will be impressive, but mercifully short.

  5. Don't forget Richard Hoaglands' website itself by EvilBastard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.enterprisemission.com

    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.j pg shows that he is now comparing the same set of markings it to a M1-A1)

    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