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- From: Jim Rogers <jfr@fc.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy.area51
- Subject: Re: Faces on Mars
- Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:34:20 -0600
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- Michael Edelman wrote:
- > Brian Zeiler (bdzeiler@students.wisc.edu) wrote:
- >
- > : Yes, and you are deserving of ridicule and derision for ridiculing the
- > : Face on Mars without reading the peer-reviewed works of Carlotto that
- > : were published in the Journal of Applied Optics.
- >
- > I did a quick net search and found Carlotto's article. Guess what? It's
- > simply a series of expoeriments in digital processing to reveal the
- > full shape of the objects under different views and lighting conditions.
- > The alternative views resemble a humanoid face less than does the
- > oft-published original frame. Carlotto cleaned up the noise, which makes
- > the "nose" disappear.
-
- But also, remarkably, caused "teeth" to emerge from the noise. At the noise
- level of resolution, that is!
-
- > The various views reveal something most un-face-like. The "eyes" are
- > skewed, the head shape is quite irregular, and the "mouth" appears to
- > be a cleft between two hills.
-
- I've pointed out this gross asymmetry of the eyes and head shape several times,
- to be answered only by a deafening silence. The "must-believers" simply won't
- look at it with a critical eye. I guess the obvious asymmetries are the result
- of erosion, but the overall shape is the result of design, right?
-
- Did you also happen to notice the rather high protruding chin? And that, when
- viewing 3-D reconstructions, it's really a low-relief shape? Why would anyone
- bother to build a monument that can't be appreciated from ground level?
-
- > Other shots in the same area- the supposed "fortress" and "pyramid" are also
- > shown. Both are interesting formations, but similarly regular landforms
- > are seen on earth and elsewhere.
-
- And with several faceted hills in the Cydonia region, the "face" is only one
- more among many; it just happened to erode funny.
-
- > Carlotto's main contention is that the face is not merely a trick of
- > light and shadow, as NASA says, but rather a real face formation.
- > Again, so what? We have a landform that can be interpreted as two
- > eyes and a mouth. And Michigan is evidence that giant, mitten-wearing`
- > aliens once land-formed the Midwest.
-
- Exactly. So the hill really does have a somewhat face-like shape. But
- "somewhat" is really a pretty poor representation, on closer inspection.
-
- Jim
-