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A Detailed Picture Of "Inca City"
Illuminati Member writes "Space.com has an article that shows off new, high quality pictures, from the Mars Global Surveyor, that shows what Inca City truely is. In 1972 the Mariner 9 took some snapshots of Mars and one picture showed ridges formed in a peculier manner. This was eventually dubbed 'inca city' for its unusual formation. Now, the MGS has given us the true picture of this anomaly. Interesting thing was how the formations could possibly be more proof of the existance of water. The intensity as the picture was beamed to us from the satellite was high, and the excitment at what it showed was grand."
I can just imagine what the conspiracy theorists are thinking now - 'those are not pictures of the same features - cover up! cover up!'
No easy way to stop this, even if we could place them en masse right by the formations - if what they saw didn't match their expectations (read: delusions) they will still find a way to deny it.
This is a pretty common problem for humans, I can remember reading a good book on the most famous faked scientific discoveries and how 'selective reporting' and 'interpretation' made fools of many intelligent people.
Still, there could be a conspiracy...
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Interesting is our nature to see familiar shapes/structures in constellations and images of other planets and moons. It seems we have also, in general, created the goal of exploration and discovery on those planets. Paramount in this pursuit is the search for life and, as its prerequisite (so far as we can tell), water. With the discovery of water comes the viability of visiting mars and personally exploring it. The human need for a frontier seems very much alive and well.
What do you mean delusions? There is no way that that could be a natural formation. I mean really!
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Granted H(2)O is required for sustaining life, but water can theoretically exist on any planet without sustaining life, yesno? That there's water, AFAIK, doesn't mean there is life.
Troll me if you will, but consider that the media has a habit of reporting half of the information in their attempt to jack up their ratings before you do.
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