Just when you thought the Face was dead and buried...

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...ars/article.do

The weirdest thing is how similar that picture is to this one:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...25/Smalfut.jpg

COINCIDENCE?

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Funny, that second picture is the first thing I thought when I saw the first picture. And if *I* recognized the shape as such, I'm sure those who are fanatical about bigfoot and aliens and all that thought the same.

Anyway, aside from being so close in shape, I think it looks more like the shaded-side of a crack/fissure than anything actually laying/standing on the surface. But I'm no photoanylist, so what do I know?

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Just for the sake of having original materials...

This is a NASA released panoramic image from Spirit, recent, at Home Plate: Press Release Images: Spirit :: 03-Jan-2008:
Spirit's West Valley Panorama (False Color)



The rock of interest is at far left of the panorama.

Spirit: All Raw Images:Panoramic Camera :: Sol 1367: 2P247720343EFFAWCCP2415L7M1 is one of several images that show our little pareidolia man, AKA a rock, lower left.

All Spirit sol 1367 pancam images

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The BA's blog about this image.

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Astrological meanings of the planets are dumb, but I don't think I'd be wrong to say that Mars is the planet of fantasy.

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Perhaps oddly, my first thought was it's a little green woman. It kinda looks like it's wearing a long dress.

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The distortion caused by the projection used in the panoramic images increases the humanoid apperance of the object a little, and the coloring enhances the effect...

On the attached file the grayscale on the left is from one of the raw files(2P247720343EFFAWCCP2415L7M1.JPG IIRC), while the color part is from the panorama mentioned by 01101001 above(The image is enlarged 3 times in length and in height, so it is a bit fuzzy)

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This actually made Anderson Cooper 360 last night. He showed the closeup, and a closeup of the closeup, but not the entire panorama. I guess that would have put things in too much perspective.

He then discussed it with his entertainment reporter. Cooper mentioned that it looked like Sasquatch. She said her bf is a Sasquatch-believer. They then pondered why Sasquatch is called Yeti in Asia. (They never resolved that one.)

Finally, Cooper said he'd just let us decide for ourselves what it really was.

And people say great journalism is dead.

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Much better perspective. You can see above when I just saw the cropped image with the zoomed in inset, I postulated that it was actually a crack or fissure. This came because I thought it was much larger than it actually is. When you see the panorama, you can see the size, shape, and "color" (though that's labled as a false-color image, is the origonal B&W?) all look strikingly (ha) the same as all the other debris in the area.

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more proof of life on mars
http://i30.tinypic.com/35cr5w1.jpg

"NASA scientists have been puzzled by the peculiarly life-like image," declared the Times of London, despite the apparent fact that no one from NASA has had any comment.

The skeptical Web site BadAstronomy.com, however, scoffed, "Puhlllleeeeze. A man? It's a tiny rock only a few inches high. It's only a few feet from the rover!"

Link

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Occam's Ghost to Grant Hutchison.

Well, congradulations to Phil for getting mentioned on Fox News. And congradulations to a news agency to point out the rational but mundane explanation over the fantasy viewer-grabbing one (though the headline is obviously geared for the later).

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Duplicate post, and probably better off to be posted in the existing thread anyway considering the BA reference.

Edit: I must be too quick... the other is already gone.

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DyerWolf discovers BadAstronomy reference in News Story.

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Oops - ToSeeked... But then I never look at the Conspiracy Theories thread...

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"Are you a mad-hatter that just types what he wishes, or have you actually any physics training?"
Occam's Ghost to Grant Hutchison.

Many people don't. And since your thread, to me, was more about BA getting mentioned on FoxNews, and the other thread is more about the image itself, I didn't see a problem with having the two threads. Not that it's really a matter of what *I* think anyway.

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Psst, Fazor - "congratulations."

(Once could've been a typo. Twice means you're spelling it wrong. )

Oh, and congrats to the BA!

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Ooops, guess that's swing-and-miss #2 (see Why A Kite? ) That's what happens when I try to actually spell instead of saying " 'Gratz! " Or "Congrats!" like I normally do

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I'm pretty sure I was playing WoW with that guy last night...the dude lagged something awful.