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Statue on Mars? New Images and Commentary

Basically, we started out with this 2004 Spirit panorama image. Then we resoluted it to 1200dpi and started looking at it.

First, we killed the Martian colors for a version of 'false color'. This brings out better detail and contrast to the image. Remember, Mars isn't Earth and you have work with the lighting a bit to get a realistic view of what you are actually seeing.

Closer shot of the anomaly. We think this is the best view. It just doesn't fit with the terrain. Imagine our surprise when we found this right in the middle of composing an article to DEBUNK the story. Then everyone got serious...

This is the best we could do with this one. We don't know what it is, but we think NASA needs to make 'Spirit' do an about-face and take a second look.

NV user 'iuonuocon' pointed us to some individual NASA images, and we downloaded this one. It's inconclusive, we think. It's probably made of stone, yes. But does it REALLY match the surrounding terrain, as he says it does? We think not. You must judge for yourself.

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It just happens that AB has been downloading Mars Exploration Rover images since day one. When we heard about the 'statue on Mars', you can bet we were skeptical. We opened our 134mb image of that particular Spirit panorama shot, fully prepared to enhance, expand, debunk the whole thing.

Well, as Gomer Pyle used to say: 'Surprise, surprise, surprise! Gee, Sergeant Carter...I see somethin' in that picture I can't explain!'

Exactly.

What is it? We don't know. We have some thoughts, but right off the top of our heads we think NASA should have Spirit do an about-face and head back to the same spot for another picture.

Just in case.

We worked on the original image for quite a while. We avoided any enhancements to the images except those involving contrast or lighting. When a picture gets transmitted a hundred million miles across space, it's okay to use digital tools to enhance close-ups. But only the ones that are fair.

The picture is disturbing. The figure differs significantly from the surrounding terrain. It doesn't seem to fit. Sure, it could be a trick of the light and all. However, it convinced us enough to change the back cover of the next issue of our magazine - at the last minute. We don't usually do this sort of thing, but the image is interesting. It teases, it makes you wonder.

Old thoughts about 'where did we REALLY come from' surface again. You never know.

Haven't you ever been curious about how mankind just happened along in the last couple of million years and still managed to take over the planet?

I mean, that's damn quick, a nothing blink in the total stretch of geo-time that life has actually existed on Earth.

Makes you wonder, anyway. Who knows? If we find pyramids on Mars later, then we'll know.

No one here claims to know one way or another WHAT the images represent, or what they actually show. We will tell you that we enhanced them carefully and gently from an original that we know is legitimate.

The rest you can judge for yourself.

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{"commentId":2229710,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

As Freud said, when a student askd him if his cigars were a phallic symbol, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (and also the cause of jaw cancer.) Sometimes a statue is just a statue. We have today a large group of pseudo intellectuals and people who think that google is a part of their brains and knowledge, and that because we can create images digitally, that no image is real or valid, and they state this, in one way or another, with pseudosophistication.

THe first remarkable images I saw were in a mid-1960s Washington Post or Star front page article, when the first very close up images of the moon were taken, and it showed three shadows in a small area that had to have been from tower-like objects very similar to the Washington Monument. After that article absolutely nothing (to my knowledge) ever appeared on it, although there were six manned landings. (The sophisticated today scoff at those because obviously they were faked, probably by the aliens at the landing sites.)

NASA has for decades maintained the varying degrees of lights and shadows from different angles to refute what is obviously on the imagery sent back from Mars. The statue is taken under excellent lighting conditions, we need the rover to reverse course and image it up close, to see its face and also if there is a plaque or any engravings associated with it. Now as well they're beginning to admit that the Viking labs showed organic activity and not just chemical activity. We need rovers in the forest areas of Mars, say down by the south pole, to maintain a vigil as to growth over three years for example and also to image from inches away the bark to look for signs of insect life.

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    Reply#51 - Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:42 AM EDT
    {"commentId":2229714,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

    As Freud said, when a student askd him if his cigars were a phallic symbol, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (and also the cause of jaw cancer.) Sometimes a statue is just a statue. We have today a large group of pseudo intellectuals and people who think that google is a part of their brains and knowledge, and that because we can create images digitally, that no image is real or valid, and they state this, in one way or another, with pseudosophistication.

    THe first remarkable images I saw were in a mid-1960s Washington Post or Star front page article, when the first very close up images of the moon were taken, and it showed three shadows in a small area that had to have been from tower-like objects very similar to the Washington Monument. After that article absolutely nothing (to my knowledge) ever appeared on it, although there were six manned landings. (The sophisticated today scoff at those because obviously they were faked, probably by the aliens at the landing sites.)

    NASA has for decades maintained the varying degrees of lights and shadows from different angles to refute what is obviously on the imagery sent back from Mars. The statue is taken under excellent lighting conditions, we need the rover to reverse course and image it up close, to see its face and also if there is a plaque or any engravings associated with it. Now as well they're beginning to admit that the Viking labs showed organic activity and not just chemical activity. We need rovers in the forest areas of Mars, say down by the south pole, to maintain a vigil as to growth over three years for example and also to image from inches away the bark to look for signs of insect life.

    {"commentId":2229714,"threadId":"207242","contentId":"1248372","authorDomain":"bqruloff"}
      Reply#52 - Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:43 AM EDT
      {"commentId":2229727,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

      As Freud once said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," in response to one of his students commenting that Freud's tobacco product was a phallic symbol.

      The ability to digitalize images, and fake them, to create optical illusions, like the contests OMNI magazine used to run each month, does not mean that images we don't like are optical illusions or faked. I'm sure a holdup man caught on a security camera would like that to be so, but NASA or no NASA there is some pretty interesting stuff on Mars that should be viewed very close up.

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        Reply#53 - Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:48 AM EDT
        {"commentId":2269829,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

        It is also to be remembered that there are other countries in the space race right now. NASA is spending its time trying to finish construction of a rather useless space station, and is gyrating around between Martian microbes in meteorites and geologic evidence of "past" water on Mars. China is making some horrendous pollution industrializing, but they are in the race to the Moon and then to Mars for real and for true, and somewhere btwn 2025 and 2030 could have vehicles and astronauts on Mars pulling up plants and doing rubbings of inscriptions on plaques that we could have already imaged and possibly retrieved, is this means anything to anybody. It was the radical left in this country that destroyed the Saturn-Apollo program that was meant to have put a continuing manned presence on the Moon. If anyone thinks this is too expensive, every dollar spent going to the Moon returned nine dollars in gross national product. One result of the cancellation of the moon landings is the flight of our factories overseas and the loss of our incredible technical superiority. If we simply reverse field one Rover now on Mars and discover that that thing is really artificial, this will be a massive boost to American prestige and the economy. But NASA is completely cowed by politics.

        {"commentId":2269829,"threadId":"207242","contentId":"1248372","authorDomain":"bqruloff"}
          Reply#54 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:07 PM EDT
          {"commentId":2269840,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

          I just wrote a very long comment. Where is it?

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            Reply#55 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:08 PM EDT
            {"commentId":4348111,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

            I guess everyone lost interest.  Was there some newsworthy event that distracted people from the really important cosmic questions?  I don't think so.

            NASA and astronomy in general are trying to sell the sad story that a Mars-sized body in an incredibly rare event collided with the earth some 4 billion years ago and that created the Moon somehow, yet still rejects the virgin birth of Venus from Jupiter that was witnessed by civilizations across the globe, and the cometary orbit of Venus that resulted in near collisions with the Earth, as recorded, clearly, in history, including the Bible.  This has to do with the denuding of Mars of most of its atmosphere.  Leading to its present condition with hardy plant growth remaining and what is obviously the ruins of a civilization.  NASA still looks for proof of water on Mars, and, EUREKA!!, found water ice just a few months ago but ignores the imagery of geysers from the 1976 Viking missions.

            We're going to put a lander on Phobos and bring back soil samples, hurrah, hurrah, but with the amount of dust kicked up from Mars by meteoric impact, there may well be microorganisms encysted on surface rocks there that will flourish in a terrestrial environment, we'll know by 2013 or 2014.

            Other solar systems include gas giant planets extremely close to the primary star, where they could not have formed, let's say that they're in Velikovskian orbits.  And Pluto was demoted from a planet to a planette, so we could more "scientifically" classify objects in the solar system, and Venus could never have been a comet, because everyone knows comets are small and light and Venus is big and heavy.   

            This Island Earth, the movie, has a scene at the end, on Metaluna, where the Engineer tells the earth couple that the aliens attacking Metaluna are from a planet that was once a comet, a striking integration of the Velikovskian discoveries for film.  Earth's civilizations were bombarded from space and wiped out at least some number of times, leaving "legends" and "myths" in their wakes.  Chicago was wiped out from a space bombardment of naptha, left over from the huge globs (for want of a better term) that deposited the oil fields of Arabia and elsewhere. 

             

            Of course organized Geology would have oil deposits forming from dinosaurs and maybe plants.  It all came from Jupiter via Venus and other routes, all the new searches for killer asteroids would do well to look for floating blobs of naptha orbiting the Sun.

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              Reply#56 - Mon Dec 8, 2008 4:52 PM EST
              {"commentId":6725680,"authorDomain":"shahin393"}
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              {"commentId":9042854,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

              What is truly odd is that there has not been a comment since January of 'o8.  Was there an election or something in the way that took people's minds off of it?  Why not just turn the rover around and run it back to the "statue on Mars?"  If the view from three feet shows it to be a true sculpture, it will change the course of human history.  If it shows otherwise, then the speculators have mud on their faces, and all the skeptical inquirers can bray to their hearts content. 

              Right now there are probably, at least, several million civilizations in this galaxy alone, most of them stranded from each other.  What are the odds that two civilizations grew up, almost simultaneously or simultaneously, on adjacent planets?  Some people just can't adjust themselves to that line of thought.  Just like some people cannot adjust themselves to the findings of Immanuel Velikovsky, or John Keel, or Jacques Vallee.  Try reading "1491" for extremely accurate alternative history, and it has nothing to do with Mars, or this artificial/natural formation in stone.

               

              Ron Ruloff, bqruloff@yahoo.com

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                Reply#58 - Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:47 AM EDT
                {"commentId":9042879,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

                I just entered a fairly long comment. Why is it that it has been deleted, and then, jokingly, the computer asks me to "Enter Your Comment?" Does the Editor fear words?

                Ron Ruloff

                {"commentId":9042879,"threadId":"207242","contentId":"1248372","authorDomain":"bqruloff"}
                  Reply#59 - Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:49 AM EDT
                  {"commentId":9855464,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

                  Where are my 2009 postings?

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                    Reply#60 - Sat Oct 3, 2009 11:12 AM EDT
                    {"commentId":9855472,"authorDomain":"bqruloff"}

                    I just did. Where are my 2009 postings?

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                      Reply#61 - Sat Oct 3, 2009 11:13 AM EDT
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