Cydonia: Face on Mars |
Cydonia: Face on Mars |
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Sep 21 2006, 11:15 AM
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Sep 21 2006, 05:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
If the Viking Orbiter's cameras had been just better enough to image Cydonia in
more detail, would the issue of the Face have ever come up? Personally I think there are plenty of far more interesting natural features on Mars that valuable time and effort could be devoted to. The Face and the Pyramids have become quite the rut and taken away from important Mars exploration. I know I am hardly alone in these thoughts on this forum, but I just had to say it. Just once it would be nice if the public wanted to explore a world for its own merits rather than the perceived notion that some kind of life is there. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Sep 22 2006, 07:12 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
If the Viking Orbiter's cameras had been just better enough to image Cydonia in more detail, would the issue of the Face have ever come up? If Nasa never had made the press release about Martian faces in Viking images (the happy face (Galle crater) and the sad face (the mesa)) nobody probably would have heard of it. Years ago the press release text was available at the JPL website, but I haven't seen it since. Personally I think there are plenty of far more interesting natural features on Mars that valuable time and effort could be devoted to. The Face and the Pyramids have become quite the rut and taken away from important Mars exploration. Yes, it's hard to imagine a less interesting object. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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