My pareidolia knows no bounds.

I'm not happy with Malcolm. His 'alien statue' claim is over the top. (Way over.) But at the same time I think you do need to defend this cartoon you produced.
LB
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Larry, it seems obvious to me (and I would suggest others) that this so called "alien statue" is way more visible, way more compelling and potentially far more controversial than the face on Cydonia and to suggest otherwise, is NOT looking close enough at this evidence. So to suggest that "NOTHING else I've seen on Mars (so far) even comes close" (quote) in my opinion is woefully inaccurate. I needed to make a point and it looks like I was successful.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> "you see something important no one else does. Deal with it".

You asked so here is the response -

Please provide back up to this statement "no one else does". Where are your statistics? Were is the "volume" of readers and members you claim they do not? Or are you just referring to yourself and and the Learned Gentlemen? Hmmm...

Seems to me you need to have a "quantity" of people behind this statement to infer such a claim.

And yes, you are right, this image is of an apparent alien figure some 41ft tall located in a hi resolution photograph from the HiRise site taken from the MRO, that IS clearly visible, clearly discernible and consistent with a shape of a predicted alien form, I feel confident in saying "IS IMPORTANT". And to insinuate it is not, is frankly unscientific and untrue...it seems to me.

Now what I do like here is that the learned Gentlemen has attempted (yet again) to marginalize this image with a TRUE rendition of pareidolia - "a KNOWN cartoon". And yet you seem to allow this and waive it on as a silly prank. Fine by me, as I see his effort as a fitting compliment - "the ultimate attempt at a cover-up!

Malcolm Scott

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Larry Burford</i>
<br />OK, I see it now.

This stuff can get very strange. A mind is a terrible thing.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">There's a full blown elephant standing next to and over the alien. It's actually quite impressive.

rd

For the last 10 to 15 years all sorts of independent researchers have made claims of "proof" of alien life and/or artifacts found on Mars in the images acquired by 3 space ships taken over a period spanning 4 decades.

To this date, none of them have stood the test of time. None of them have cracked into mainstream science and/or media. When I see one of these such claims make the front page of a major U.S. publication, with diagrams, photographs, and a peer-reviewed report, then perhaps I'll take it seriously.

Until then, talk is cheap.

rd

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Marsevidence01</i>
<br />"the ultimate attempt at a cover-up!

Malcolm Scott
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I give you credit for having a good sense of humor.

rd

Easter Island Man

www.msss.com/moc_gallery/e19_r02/images/E21/E2100825.html

This was what it looked like on the MOC E2100825 GIF



It was likened to this:



HiRise captured it in March 2008 as:

www.uahirise.org/PSP_007657_1375

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I'll let the viewer decide if this is a "statue" of a head.

rd

Suppose it had started out as an exact duplicate of one of those Easter Island heads?

After 3.5 million years of erosion (wind blown dust, micro- and milli- meteorites, thermal expansion cycles, etc.) what would it look like?

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The problem with conjectures like this is that until you can go there and touch it all you have is an interesting data point.