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Strange object on Mars

I must have a serious cognitive problem... I never see anything abnormal in Mars (or Moon) images.
 
In Yahweh's picture, it looks like one of the rocks is in the shape of the top of a monkey/hominid skull. I'm going to hazard a very wild uneducated guess and say it's a rock, though.;)

Then again, I could be part of a conspiracy...
 
It's a rock. What's the scale of the items in the photo? What is the context? Many of the pictures I thought were of fair sized rocks were 1 cm pebbles. It reminds me of the martian mountain that looked like a hominid face until a camera with greater detail took a photo of it. You can't accurately judge what you are looking at without better info. To ascribe humanoid features to a hill that was taken by a camera that can't define anything smaller than a kilometer is silly.

Besides, if the recent photo was of a skull, would it be made public? Hell, no. Proof of life on other worlds? The religious types would go insane(er). I would like to believe such evidence would intrigue us, but I'm too cynical. What is more likely to happen is that the crazies would flip out, start ranting about satan and drink special kool-aid by the thousands. Funding would dry up for fear of upsetting some voter on Walton mountain. Unless that is the plan....keep saying alien life doesn't exist until it is too late to deny it, because the evidence is as obvious and prevalent as crabgrass. Yeah.

You are aware that there are two transmission coming from the mars probes, right? One transmission is raw data available only to the shadow cabinet and the other is 'clean' data edited for the average person.
 
I LOVE...

...human exploration of the unknown.

I think it is the most worthy pursuit we can partake in.

That we now have pictures of another world's surface detailed enough to see what MIGHT be a humaniod skull sticking out of the ground is AWESOME...

It probably isn't, but it is genuinely exciting to think about the possibility.

*Note: There is a similiar rock located in a smaller version at the top middle of the full image.
 
Rock.

Besides, if the recent photo was of a skull, would it be made public? Hell, no. Proof of life on other worlds? The religious types would go insane(er).

A few years ago it was very clearly announced that researchers thought they found evidence of life in a Martian meteorite. Another researcher has announced that he believes that one of the Viking experiments show some evidence of life.

These are, of course, contested announcements, but nonetheless they were made and no panic has resulted.

If evidence of life is found by NASA I am sure it will be released (hey, it would solve all the budget problems in an instant).

I think that except for the most hardcore fundies, most religious folks won't be too put out by the existance of bacteria or even non-intelligent animal life on another planet.

I would like to believe such evidence would intrigue us, but I'm too cynical. What is more likely to happen is that the crazies would flip out, start ranting about satan and drink special kool-aid by the thousands.

Well, that would solve some problems, now wouldn't it?

Funding would dry up for fear of upsetting some voter on Walton mountain. Unless that is the plan....keep saying alien life doesn't exist until it is too late to deny it, because the evidence is as obvious and prevalent as crabgrass. Yeah.

The purpose of MER is to look for signs of past water that may indicate that Mars once had or has life. The only goal of ill-fated Beagle II was to find life. If someone is afraid of finding life on Mars then it seems strange to be sending all these spacecraft.
 
The ones that keep breaking? It's like they want to fail.

"Test the Hubble mirror for clarity before sending it up into space? Why would we do that?"
 
Bottle or the Gun said:
The ones that keep breaking? It's like they want to fail.


There are currently three orbiters operating very well and two rovers also doing quite well. Are you seriously suggesting that NASA is sending millions of dollars of equipment into space and hoping it fails?

In any case, the announcement of life on another planet has already been made. While it is not currently well accepted in the scientific community, the research was done and presented to the public.



"Test the Hubble mirror for clarity before sending it up into space? Why would we do that?"

Too small a budget results in tests skipped or not performed.
 
I cannot link to any of the listed versions of this URL. Clearly some people can. Is it only visible in the USA? On Mars?
Is it a sexcurity issue? Can anyone post an alternative link?
 
Keziah Mason said:


There are currently three orbiters operating very well and two rovers also doing quite well. Are you seriously suggesting that NASA is sending millions of dollars of equipment into space and hoping it fails?


In any case, the announcement of life on another planet has already been made. While it is not currently well accepted in the scientific community, the research was done and presented to the public.

Junk science.




Too small a budget results in tests skipped or not performed. [/B]

And then spend millions fixing it.
 
Flip the image by 180 degrees and the illusion disappears.
 
Sorry folks, the link doesn't work.

The picture is not the one Yahweh linked. This rather like a rabbit-like object with long ears(as you would expect from a rabbit-like object), situated a few yards from the rover in total isolation in the red soil laying on the surface without much of an indentation. It is probably debris from one of the soft landing balloons, but it does look very animal like. No time at present to get the link back, but I shall work on it asap.

regards

Explorer
 

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