home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: news.demon.co.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.zeitgeist.net!sun.sirius.com!usenet
- From: Josh Olaf <info@cydonia.org>
- Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,sci.skeptic,alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy.area51,alt.ufo.reports
- Subject: Re: Faces on Mars
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:43:56 -0700
- Organization: http://www.cydonia.org/
- Lines: 43
- Message-ID: <31C9E23C.2A26@cydonia.org>
- References: <4pmltr$2ht@pacifica.access.ch> <4pstf2$237@flare.convex.com> <4puflb$cs1@news.emi.com> <maury-1906961738300001@news.iol.ie>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp040-sf1.sirius.com
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
- X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I)
- Xref: news.demon.co.uk alt.conspiracy:120931 alt.alien.research:26316 alt.paranet.ufo:53962 sci.skeptic:73054 alt.alien.visitors:88687 alt.conspiracy.area51:11350 alt.ufo.reports:9565
-
- Maury Markowitz wrote:
- >
- > In article <4puflb$cs1@news.emi.com>, drew2@relex.com (Andy Kitt) wrote:
- >
- > > The point is, Hoagland claims to have evidence supporting his ideas.
- > > To discredit him you need to invalidate his evidence. If he claims to
- > > have photos of a specific area of the moon, then having other photos
- > > of the same area that do NOT show the artifacts he claims exist would
- > > weaken his claims considerably. Without these other photos, you must
- > > find some other way to show his photos were faked. Has this been done?
- > >
- > > If Hoagland had only his claims and hearsay evidence then it's easy to
- > > just call it fantasy without having "images of sufficient quality to
- > > discredit this idea". That, however, is not the case...
- >
- > This isn't really true at all. As I mentioned in my last post, there is
- > a surprising image of Kermit the Frog on Mars. Now, are we to assume that
- > aliens did this, or that it's a natural response of the amazing ability of
- > the brain to find patterns and images anywhere?
-
-
- Your suprising image of Kermit the Frog on Mars doesn't hold up to scientific
- scrutiny. In fact, we can assume by looking at said image that you have been
- staring too long at your monitor...
-
-
- >
- > So this guy [Hoagland] has an image of something that looks like something else.
- > Big deal. Does this mean it's an artifact of an alien, or our image
- > processing centers in our brain? The later of course.
-
- You have COMPLETELY failed to prove your insane conclusion. Please show me
- the logic that leads to this fallacy of yours.
-
- >
- > So you don't have to "prove" anything, you just have to come up with a
- > better explanation. There it is.
- >
- > Maury
-
- There it is.
-
- Josh
-