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!”
Yes, its alien conspiracy day on DU. The original NASA photo is here. You can zoom in and spot the Martian! Hint: its in the group of rocks on the bottom left side.
Okay, didn’t we spend a whole bunch of money on sending stuff to Mars…to detect WHAT? Why is everyone so skeptical? Has anyone suggested that it could be some kind of a relic, possibly sculpture? I mean you’ve got all these interesting “tricks” of shadow and light. How many of them are going to be explained away in this fashion without further investigation? And speaking of digitally enhancing images, I could believe that NASA would be more than happy to debunk any evidence of civilizations that may be found, for good reason as we wouldn’t want unnecessary competition when preparing to send humans to the red planet. I would imagine if a rover was running around this planet sending back pictures of people, the same skeptics would be explaining those away as swamp gas. Let’s all try to keep an open mind, sheesh. It all hasn’t been discovered yet ya know ! People can’t believe that this may be some sort of relic but they can believe that a rock found here has fossilized bacteria on it…supposedly from where? Mars was probably the first human experiment that went badly…we seem to be ruining this planet quite well, where will we go next?
“There are more things on heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in your philosophy.”
That being said, who the hell has that much time on their hands. I mean really…its a bloody rock. There are far more fascinating things to look at on our own planet…the pyramids, for instance. How in the world did a bunch of people with wooden tools build those things. Must have had help from bigfoot…or those two-inch aliens from Mars with extremely good posture and poorly designed urban planning. Or perhaps we are really devolving…after building the pyramids, all we humans have left to do is stare at rocks until we kinda maybe sorta see a shape that resembles one of our own species, which, incidently, couldnt survive for more than about 15 seconds in the big sandbox called mars.
If you zoom in on the picture, you can see other strange objects near the rover . There is what looks like an axe head and part of a handle. You can also see something that looks like a pitcher of some sort. It has a perfect round opening and what appears to be a handle. There are other objects that don’t look like rocks. It is almost like NASA stopped at the spot to look at the items on the ground. Zoom in and look close. You will see them.