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Topic: Told ya! We are not alone
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bliter
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posted 24 January 2008 05:50 AM
Fidel,That UFO sighting over San Diego was quite impressive, but I'm not persuaded. Possibly some prankster strung together some of those orange garbage bags after placing a lighted candle in each. Pretty good YouTube fare though. National, International, Other-worldly. Perhaps this calls for another category of forum. 
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Albireo
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posted 24 January 2008 07:48 AM
Well, UFO visitors, and the possibility of life existing elsewhere, are really separate topics. This latest figure on Mars doesn't really say anything about either one.I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that this is a living being, or a statue left by one. Planetary geologist Emily Lakdawalla does a good job debunking here: Teeny little Bigfoot on Mars. The feature in question is apparently a highly magnified tiny part of a big panorama, and is only a few meters from the rover. She calculates that it is no more than about 6 cm. in height. Here is a large image of the panorama it is taken from[/url]; I can't even find the little guy. Much more interesting to me is what looks like sedimentary rock eroded in layers, near the lower left corner of the image. I'm no geologist, but I'd be surprised if liquid water on the surface didn't have a hand in shaping rocks like that.
This reminds me of "the face" on Mars that was supposed to be some kind of alien sculpture shown in a photograph by the Viking spacecraft in 1976: 
Later images made Egyptian-like Martians seem rather less likely... 
That face was a mesa many kilometers across, and this latest statue is really a tiny figurine. So I'm not sure whether we're dealing with huge aliens or tiny ones, but either way, this other image of Mars clearly shows that they are happy to see us: 
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bliter
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posted 24 January 2008 03:43 PM
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It really is amazing what you can do with your computer when you have PhotoShop installed.
Yes, even a beach or a table top with some sand and a few rocks. But still, considering the billions/trillions of spheres that the universe comprises, I can't help feeling it a little arrogant to assume our beautiful world to be the only one supporting life. And such life, should it ever be encountered, is quite likely to be exceptionally different in size and every respect to what we might expect.
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