bogeyman
31st August 2015, 10:53
To the folks at UFO Sightings Daily, NASA’s archive of Mars images from its Curiosity rover is better than a candy shop. Every visit yields a new treat.
“Alien critter found on Mars, gazing at rover,” reads the headline on a post published Monday. If you squint at the accompanying image, which is so zoomed-in that it’s pixelated and fuzzy, you can almost see a tiny creature with spindly arms and a pumpkin-shaped head peering out from behind a rock.
Also spotted: two alien ships, a reptile head, a face looking up. And that’s just from one photo.
“There is so much evidence of intelligent life in this NASA photo, its really amazing that the public hasn’t done this kind of research long ago,” says the post’s author, Scott C. Waring.
[The Hubble spotted this smiley face in space]
Waring is hardly the only person to make such “discoveries.” Earlier in August, certain corners of the Internet were agog over what appeared to be a crab crawling up a Martian cliff face. Others saw a “levitating rock” in June.
Ashwin Vasavada, who works on the Mars rover project, insists that NASA scientists are not trying to hide evidence of alien life from us.
“There is no group that would be happier to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover,” he told CNN. “So far we haven’t seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are.”
When we look at chunks of space rock and piles of sand and “see” a crab, or a lizard, or an alien spaceship, we’re being tricked, he said. Not by NASA, but by our own brains.
The phenomenon is called “pareidolia,” and it explains why we so frequently find Jesus in our food, the Virgin Mary in tree trunks, a man in the moon, Hitler in teapots and tiny, pumpkin-headed aliens on Mars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/how-your-brain-tricks-you-into-seeing-alien-life-on-mars/
I personally saw Jesus in a potato once as well, yeh right.:bigsmile:
“Alien critter found on Mars, gazing at rover,” reads the headline on a post published Monday. If you squint at the accompanying image, which is so zoomed-in that it’s pixelated and fuzzy, you can almost see a tiny creature with spindly arms and a pumpkin-shaped head peering out from behind a rock.
Also spotted: two alien ships, a reptile head, a face looking up. And that’s just from one photo.
“There is so much evidence of intelligent life in this NASA photo, its really amazing that the public hasn’t done this kind of research long ago,” says the post’s author, Scott C. Waring.
[The Hubble spotted this smiley face in space]
Waring is hardly the only person to make such “discoveries.” Earlier in August, certain corners of the Internet were agog over what appeared to be a crab crawling up a Martian cliff face. Others saw a “levitating rock” in June.
Ashwin Vasavada, who works on the Mars rover project, insists that NASA scientists are not trying to hide evidence of alien life from us.
“There is no group that would be happier to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover,” he told CNN. “So far we haven’t seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are.”
When we look at chunks of space rock and piles of sand and “see” a crab, or a lizard, or an alien spaceship, we’re being tricked, he said. Not by NASA, but by our own brains.
The phenomenon is called “pareidolia,” and it explains why we so frequently find Jesus in our food, the Virgin Mary in tree trunks, a man in the moon, Hitler in teapots and tiny, pumpkin-headed aliens on Mars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/how-your-brain-tricks-you-into-seeing-alien-life-on-mars/
I personally saw Jesus in a potato once as well, yeh right.:bigsmile: