Koliedrus
03-17-2004, 07:05 PM
I've spent the last few days looking at information provided by a recent article at www.space.com.
Specifically: War of the Words (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040315.html).
Take a trip back in time to when I was seeing fish-eating Ethiopians in the trees (http://www.thehypertribe.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6888). I was having fun with my ability to see things that aren't really there. I've only just added the word pareidolia (http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html) to my vocabulary. Now I just wish I knew how to pronounce it. No matter. The definition is enough.
Several of the pages I've seen are similar to my little mental vacation to the trees of the North-Eastern U.S. and surface features on the moons of Jupiter. The major difference is that the publishers of images such as this (http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/Spirit/BONNEV1.jpg) seriously (seemingly) thinks that those combinations of light and shadow are purposefully constructed by a sophisticated alien intelligence.
I wish things like this didn't need to be pointed out but no one ever said that intelligence counteracts mental instability. Smart people are nutso, too.
Try this little experiment for me and see what you think you see:
Space.com recently published a zoomable image of the Bonneville Crater (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zoomviewer/index.php?display_img=bonnevillecrater) as seen from the Spirit rover. It took only a few zooms for my pareidolia to kick in. I found all sorts of things that appear to be biological remnants or artifacts constructed by intelligent beings.
There actually is one artifact constructed by an "alien" civilization in the picture. See if you can find it.
Specifically: War of the Words (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040315.html).
Take a trip back in time to when I was seeing fish-eating Ethiopians in the trees (http://www.thehypertribe.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6888). I was having fun with my ability to see things that aren't really there. I've only just added the word pareidolia (http://skepdic.com/pareidol.html) to my vocabulary. Now I just wish I knew how to pronounce it. No matter. The definition is enough.
Several of the pages I've seen are similar to my little mental vacation to the trees of the North-Eastern U.S. and surface features on the moons of Jupiter. The major difference is that the publishers of images such as this (http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/Spirit/BONNEV1.jpg) seriously (seemingly) thinks that those combinations of light and shadow are purposefully constructed by a sophisticated alien intelligence.
I wish things like this didn't need to be pointed out but no one ever said that intelligence counteracts mental instability. Smart people are nutso, too.
Try this little experiment for me and see what you think you see:
Space.com recently published a zoomable image of the Bonneville Crater (http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/zoomviewer/index.php?display_img=bonnevillecrater) as seen from the Spirit rover. It took only a few zooms for my pareidolia to kick in. I found all sorts of things that appear to be biological remnants or artifacts constructed by intelligent beings.
There actually is one artifact constructed by an "alien" civilization in the picture. See if you can find it.