Comments on: Defacing Mars http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:21:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Metatron http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34531 Metatron Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:47:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34531 Missing Mars by only 6.5 Mars radi, asteroid 2007 WD5 passed within the orbit of Deimos. Phobos and Deimos are in near-perfect "circular" orbits -- so perfect that they have "eclipsed" many times under the watchful eyes of Spirit and Opportunity. Methinks it would have been better for you Earthlings if WD5 had impacted Mars. NASA stated that neither orbiting Martian satellites nor Martian rovers imaged WD5's "near-miss" -- so what did? One Down and Eight to Go, Metatron P.S. Live Free or Die. Missing Mars by only 6.5 Mars radi, asteroid 2007 WD5 passed within the orbit of Deimos.

Phobos and Deimos are in near-perfect “circular” orbits — so perfect that they have “eclipsed” many times under the watchful eyes of Spirit and Opportunity.

Methinks it would have been better for you Earthlings if WD5 had impacted Mars.

NASA stated that neither orbiting Martian satellites nor Martian rovers imaged WD5’s “near-miss” — so what did?

One Down and Eight to Go,

Metatron

P.S. Live Free or Die.

]]> By: Victor von Doom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34530 Victor von Doom Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:42:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34530 FOOLS! Just like the accursed Richards you are BLIND! The structure is a monument to ME, Victor Von Doom! I traveled billions of years back in time, conquered the inhabitants of the Red Planet, and forced them to sculpt it for me! THUS SPAKE DOOM! FOOLS! Just like the accursed Richards you are BLIND!

The structure is a monument to ME, Victor Von Doom! I traveled billions of years back in time, conquered the inhabitants of the Red Planet, and forced them to sculpt it for me!

THUS SPAKE DOOM!

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34529 Irishman Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:39:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34529 tuvas, you are right! tuvas, you are right!

]]> By: tuvas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34528 tuvas Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:07:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34528 Personally, I thinkif you rotate the figure 180 degrees, and look in the shadowed region, you see a spaceman, outfitted in a spacesuit. Perhaps he was the one sent to clean up the face? Quite large folks they are... For reference, the spaceman's arms are close to the "nose", you can see his rounded helmet, EVA backpack, legs, etc. Looks a bit short, but otherwise, looks quite clear to me! Personally, I thinkif you rotate the figure 180 degrees, and look in the shadowed region, you see a spaceman, outfitted in a spacesuit. Perhaps he was the one sent to clean up the face? Quite large folks they are… For reference, the spaceman’s arms are close to the “nose”, you can see his rounded helmet, EVA backpack, legs, etc. Looks a bit short, but otherwise, looks quite clear to me!

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34527 Irishman Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:44:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34527 TheBlackCat, yes, a dropped couple of pixels helped. TheBlackCat, yes, a dropped couple of pixels helped.

]]> By: JB of Brisbane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34526 JB of Brisbane Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:49:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34526 "There’s a psychological effect that enables people to connect closely spaced dots and see a “line” even though there is no line, " Classic example - Lowell's "Canals" on Mars. That Mars was crisscrossed with canals was virtually a given of any teaching involved with the red planet, until Mariner IV took the first close-up images and showed that the canals did not exist. Even that did not dissuade the believers; as a child, I can remember my brother telling me that "Mars is covered with mysterious canals which don't show up in photographs!" “There’s a psychological effect that enables people to connect closely spaced dots and see a “line” even though there is no line, ”

Classic example - Lowell’s “Canals” on Mars.

That Mars was crisscrossed with canals was virtually a given of any teaching involved with the red planet, until Mariner IV took the first close-up images and showed that the canals did not exist. Even that did not dissuade the believers; as a child, I can remember my brother telling me that “Mars is covered with mysterious canals which don’t show up in photographs!”

]]> By: RexKillHappy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34525 RexKillHappy Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:22:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/12/defacing-mars/#comment-34525 Oh, sorry. I was just repeating what the Greys told me. Oh, sorry. I was just repeating what the Greys told me.

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