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Old 13-March-2006, 03:56 PM
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I happened to come across this site and found it to be another nice woo-woo site. I don't think we've seen it before.
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Old 13-March-2006, 04:35 PM
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Wow, I am just totally shocked that NASA manages to miss all the waterlogged swamps and living ground cover so obvious to the rest of us. Jeeze, just what the heck are they doing, twiddling their thumbs?

Thank God we have serious bastions of scientific discovery like the Mars Anomaly Research Site to point out a planet teaming with water geysers and glass tubes; we certainly can't trust NASA to figure it out.
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Old 13-March-2006, 06:51 PM
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Hey, I've heard of this Joseph Skipper and his Mars *anomalies* before! Take a look here from Randi's site.

Apparently, Mr. Skipper sees *stuff* in JPEG artifacts as well.
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Old 13-March-2006, 07:22 PM
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At least the site is readable. No need to tear out your eyeballs because of fluorescent text/background.

Other than that, nothing new. Cool pictures though.
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Old 14-March-2006, 05:33 PM
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Wow I am SO happy that Mr Skinner has used his "unique objective ability that enables [him] to sidestep prejudice and make these discoveries of anomalous evidence irrespective of [his] feelings or reaction to a discovery" ( quote from here) to show us all the pictures that "they" have missed manipulating to hide the evidence! Woo-woo!!
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The name of the site says it all...Mars Anomaly Research.

If you have the word "anomaly" in your name, you're duty bound to "find" those anomalies.
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The name of the site says it all...Mars Anomaly Research)
Shouldn't it really be the Mars Anomaly Research Site, the Mars MARS site?
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Old 14-March-2006, 07:59 PM
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LOL. Well he's right about this pic. It is indeed an artificial structure on Mars.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...ity-object.htm
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LOL. Well he's right about this pic. It is indeed an artificial structure on Mars.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...ity-object.htm
Yikes. I'm seriously embarrassed for that dude right now.
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However, upon investigating, it turns out that this has already been officially identified as the Mer-A/Opportunity backshell and parachute discarded in flight as the Lander made its decent to the Mars surface as opposed to say the discarded heat shield that is said to have landed in a different location. I expected that there would be some kind of official explanation, whether it is actually Opportunity debris or not, just because this strange object is so obvious in some of the official images, looks so anomalous, and would be so easy for many to find and become concerned about.
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I wonder what the woo-woos would say about this pick?

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...P2365L5M1.HTML
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So, he's saying the pictures aren't good enough to say for certain what it is?
What does that tell us of his interpretations of other objects?

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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/galle...P2365L5M1.HTML
They are all over it. It doesn't look "natural".
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So, he's saying the pictures aren't good enough to say for certain what it is?
What does that tell us of his interpretations of other objects?


They are all over it. It doesn't look "natural".
It's doesn't look natural at all... I wonder what it is. -just for clarification, I know it's not the remains of a martian cobblestone walkway, even if it sure does look like one -but I'm sure that there is an explanation that doesn't have to do with a cover-up that goes to the highest level of government

That first (obviously manipulated) pic of the heat shield looks like a Tusken Raider!!!!

I wish I knew a way to write out that sound they make.
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Does anyone know if Nasa have any parallel commentries on the same material as Mr Skipper?
What I mean is, are there any official NASA research notes on ... say ......
this image....as an example.

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e13_.../E1401276.html

I would be keen to get two interpretations side by side. Here is one side ....

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...-pole-ring.htm
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Does anyone know if Nasa have any parallel commentries on the same material as Mr Skipper?
What I mean is, are there any official NASA research notes on ... say ......
this image....as an example.

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e13_.../E1401276.html

I would be keen to get two interpretations side by side. Here is one side ....

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...-pole-ring.htm
It appears to me to be a normal impact crater with a standard peak in the center. There seems to be some darker material right below the surface, as if there is only a thin vaneer of ice on top the normal rust-colored soil.

The mars anomaly guy says "First, you should know that it is not an impact crater", but doesn't explain in detail why he says it isn't. Then he goes on to talk about flooding and dark-colored organisms and other stuff that I'm dubious can be inferred just from looking at the image, unless one has a good imagination, of course..
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Old 15-March-2006, 03:47 PM
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It appears to me to be a normal impact crater with a standard peak in the center. There seems to be some darker material right below the surface, as if there is only a thin vaneer of ice on top the normal rust-colored soil.

The mars anomaly guy says "First, you should know that it is not an impact crater", but doesn't explain in detail why he says it isn't. Then he goes on to talk about flooding and dark-colored organisms and other stuff that I'm dubious can be inferred just from looking at the image, unless one has a good imagination, of course..
Do you know of a NASA interpretation of this image?
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Do you know of a NASA interpretation of this image?
Haven't found one yet, although I doubt they pen an interpretation of every non-descript crater they image.
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Sure. It's a unique location, nicely preserved in the white stuff (not sure if I should call it ice)
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Sure. It's a unique location, nicely preserved in the white stuff (not sure if I should call it ice)
It is in a unique location. It would be more interesting if it was shown to be volcanic, like a chaldera, than a simple crater.

I do wish we would get a rover to the poles soon. Looks like an interesting place.
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Yeah, sending two rovers to similar terrain miles apart must have made sense to someone. I guess designing equipment that operates in polar regions is going to be more demanding too.
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I quite like this report.


http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...v-evidence.htm
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Zoom in on a lossy jpeg and you will find all the wonders of the universe...
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Eric, you might like this as well:

http://www.geocities.com/bradguth/
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Even better:

http://www.wiolawapress.com/
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Using really, really super advanced image analysis software I have been able to blow up many images and show that much of the surface of Mars was covered with rectangular buildings with black roofs - I suspect it was some sort of advanced solar energy collection system. My proof is in the image below


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Do you know the word Gullible isn't in the dictionary?
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What I can appreciate about Mr Skippers site are some of the images he finds/zooms in on. He obviously scours loads of images.
I love the geology.
Check this GEOLOGY out, not the Philosophy or Ecology.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...lls-report.htm
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What I can appreciate about Mr Skippers site are some of the images he finds/zooms in on. He obviously scours loads of images.
I love the geology.
Check this GEOLOGY out, not the Philosophy or Ecology.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...lls-report.htm
I agree his pictures are very good, and he obviously spends a lit of time at it. I just think the conclusions he comes to about what is in the images jump the gun just a little bit.
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Do you know the word Gullible isn't in the dictionary?

really?
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really?

Love it !
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