May 02 2009
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More Mars Simulacra
An image from the Spirit rover, still creaking around on the surface of Mars after five years, shows what looks like an elongated skull. This follows at least three other images over the past few years identified as fossilized wood, a running bigfoot, an Egyptian sculpture and even a big foot print.
Story at the UK Telegraph.
More weekend entertainment with a good post by our friend Loren Coleman on the old “Jacko” Bigfoot story over at Cryptomundo.
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May 2nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
These people have no imagination. Why can’t they see something better on the surface of Mars, say like a statue of Venus, or something more useful, say like the solution to our poor economy or the oil crisis?
These poor dimwits seem to fail to understand that just because something looks like fossilized wood, a running bigfoot, an Egyptian sculpture, or a footprint, does not mean they are one. What it means is that the human brain can find patterns even where there are none.
Objectively speaking, there are no ‘pyramids’ or ‘faces’ or ‘cities’ in the NASA or JPL photos of Mars, just some blobs and blurry rock piles. And speaking of blobs and blurs, do you also remember how psychologists used to often ask their clients to interpret what they think they saw in a random blotch of smeared ink called a Rorschach test? Well I often wondered what a mathematician or a physicist might see in a random blotch of smeared rock piles in a photo of Mars surface and apparently what they might see is called “hyperdimensional physics” by some! I never understood why Richard Hoagland calls his alleged theory, “physics”, when it sounds more like an ‘art’ than a science — not at all too much unlike the art of fortunetelling, where a make believe psychic takes one look at the lines on your hand and then proceeds to tell you your ‘future’ from them.
May 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Steven Novella sums it up on Hoagland. Still the Freemason Nasa connection is pretty fascinating. David F. Noble’s Religion of Technology book would be the better option.
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Finding patterns is fun. There’s something to be said for taking the incredible achievement of the Mars rovers and reducing it to silly shapes that resemble things we recognize. Perhaps it’s a symptom of sapiens-centricity as well as some sort of yearning, perhaps.
May 4th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Pareidolia is the word for things like this*-I gather that in
“seeing Faces” its something thats
actually hard-wired into the brain.
I don’t take it seriously for the most part ( For all their impressive mass,
pyramids are fairly primitive structures) but I remember FORTEAN TIMES
having some images of ‘Giant Martian
Worms’ a few years ago…
* Kentaro Mori, at the excellent skeptical blog, FORGETOMORI, writes regularly on the topic.