nebula Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted January 24, 2008 NASA Photo Shows Humanoid Figure on Mars Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Is it Bigfoot? A Tusken Raider from the first "Star Wars" movie? Or just a rock? British newspapers went crazy Wednesday morning about an image from Mars that appears to show a humanoid figure descending a shallow hillside. The "alien" is actually a blurry detail in a huge panoramic photograph snapped on the edge of Mars' Gusev crater by NASA's Spirit rover in early November, and posted on NASA's Web site on Jan. 2. Naturally, it took the Photoshop skills of dedicated bloggers to find the "humanoid." "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!" Other British papers saw the humo(u)r in the story, with the Sun theorizing that it was Detective Gene Hunt, the drunken, sexist policeman from the BBC time-traveling crime series "Life on Mars." "It's Usama bin Laden!" declared one Times of London commenter. "All this time we thought he was in Pakistan." Click here for article to see the picture. For the full NASA image, click here - it's located in the bottom left corner. Click on the image to enlarge it and scroll all the way to the left and all the way down. Then slowly scroll up and you should see it along the rock edge after the front set of boulders. Then click on the image to set it back to the wide view, and you will get the sense of how tiny that "humanoid figure" is. Some people have way too much time on their hands to find things like this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Darn, and no one even remembered Marvin the Martian from the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afal Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 60 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,249 Content Per Day: 0.36 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/12/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted January 24, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckthesystem Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 1,706 Topics Per Day: 0.26 Content Count: 3,386 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/12/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/10/1955 Share Posted January 24, 2008 It's probably just one of the characters from "Red Dwarf", nothing to worry about. Then on the other hand it could be ................................. Ted! (after all isn't he responsible for everything? (keep scrolling down) What does make me wonder though are the pictures that NASA published in December showing the discarded coke bottles on Mars and the sign advertising Budweizer that was half buried in the sand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladypeartree Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 542 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 33,035 Content Per Day: 5.05 Reputation: 23,853 Days Won: 237 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Bucks how did you manage to ignor scarlets calls for help in the fellowship hall when you can be detective enough to find all these ????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 NASA answers: Full article here An understanding of how the photo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinM Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 144 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 4,512 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 625 Days Won: 10 Joined: 04/11/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 10/07/1979 Share Posted January 24, 2008 It's a 2 dimensional image. Everyone knows that abstract sculptures take on different forms and shapes from different angles. This could be a similar illusion. I would like to get a 360 degree view of the object, just to find an answer to all the questions. If you ask me, it's looks more like a sculpture of a Gorilla, maybe Mars is really the "Planet of the Apes. . ." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicki-aka-bebe Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 239 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/13/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted January 24, 2008 funny funny funny.... and i couldnt get to the picture... oh well.... God bless sister vicki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tah Posted January 24, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 105 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3,131 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 126 Days Won: 1 Joined: 05/12/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted January 24, 2008 Looks like statue of a woman to me with her arm held out.. thats pretty neat ..mars sure looks dry ...maybe she wants water... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckthesystem Posted January 25, 2008 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 1,706 Topics Per Day: 0.26 Content Count: 3,386 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 3 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/12/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 12/10/1955 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Bucks how did you manage to ignor scarlets calls for help in the fellowship hall when you can be detective enough to find all these ????? LPT I'm mortified! I obviously missed something, as I'm really thick please point me to "Scarlet's call for help". I'm not being facetious, I'll be really upset if our Scarlet is hurt . I've looked through "fellowship hall", but nothing is obvious, and I'm in a hurry right now as I've got to go to work, I'll be back around 1am (our time - 2.00pm on Friday Pommy time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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