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Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic and fights the abuse of science, but his true love is praising the wonders of real science.
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December 29th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I don’t think comment is needed. Cute rock formation though
December 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am
The human-like face is totally fake, but there is no way that dog like face could be faked!
December 29th, 2008 at 11:13 am
December 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am
That’s obviously a Martian homage to Laika and Sputnik II.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:19 am
The Face of God… er… I mean Dog !
December 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am
I knew it! My dog is an alien.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Looks more like a fox than a dog to me.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Taco Bell has the scoop on the intergalatic market. Could Judge Dredd possibly be a real oracle of the future of humanity?
December 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Oh they finally opened the Taco Bell franchise there?
December 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am
“Yo quiero Taco Bell”
December 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Doggone Mars!
December 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Don’t you all remember that Marvin the Martian had a dog? That’s him, watching us while his master loads the Illudium P38 Explosive Space Modulator into his gun.
“I’m going to blow up the Earth. Isn’t that lovely?”
December 29th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Ok, I can’t take this anymore….I BELIEVE IN DOG!
Whew….I feel so much better now.
December 29th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Looks more like Pikachu to me!
December 29th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Am I the only one who sees a kangaroo? (I’m not even from upside-down world)
December 29th, 2008 at 11:57 am
It’s a streetlight?
December 29th, 2008 at 11:58 am
So Laika survived, and is now a giant mutt staring at us from the surface of Mars? And is that the maniacal gleam of insane, world-destroying hatred and unspeakable canine revenge I spy in his (flying) saucer-sized eye?
“Er, a dog ate my International Space Station…”
December 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
proof that dog is man’s best friend!
December 29th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
No comment is needed (I believe in dogs too!). But I would like to know where you got the image from.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Obviously, Martians are Harlan Ellison fans!
J/P=?
December 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The shadow is soooo at the wrong angle!
In fact, using triginom… trigina… twiggynum… using hard sums I have calculated that there is a stage light precisely 4 inches sort of up and to the left a bit – just under the ‘ted’ in ‘Presented’.
Hey, this debunking malarkey is easier than I thought… bring it on, Plait!
December 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
No comment.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
This brings back an old memory. In grade school, in the 80′s, in the USA, I was subjected to a filmstrip documentary about the face on Mars.
Not only did the documentary show the classic face, but it also showed dozens of other faces found on mars, including at least one dog-face on mars.
This is why I believed in the face on mars well into my highschool years… the documentary had shown not just one, but dozens of examples.
Now I know it’s all bunk, but I sure wish I knew how that documentary made it into the educational system.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I thought Sirius was the Dog Star.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Aaaah! Them doggone dogs!
Little bastards are everywhere.
December 29th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
(I too have no comment.)
December 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Is that dog winking?
December 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
rjcc, I thought it was Demolition Man, not Judge Dredd where “all restaurants are Taco Bell”…
December 29th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
we have to find them! a dog and a man have been buried in the sand! they’ll starve without us!
December 29th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
y so sirius?
December 29th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
@rjccj I think you’ve confused Judge Dredd with Demolition Man…
December 29th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I’ve noticed that astronomers tend to be cat people, so the man on Mars would totally have a cat, therefore, it’s faked. QED, bitches.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Wow Nicole, like you totally said what I was gonna say.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I see a new Richard Hoagland book in the future.
December 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Good one, Nicole! Good one!
But it looks like Jato, my Jack Russel…
December 29th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hey, CC! I’ve sent in my first IYA podcast and have just finished editing the June 27th one.
Busy bee here in VA…
Nicole: You interested in doing one?
December 29th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Mars sez; Up Yours!
Thats what it looks like to me. The face and close to it, a hand with a raised middlefinger.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I saw Pikachu, too!
December 29th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hoagland had puppies?
December 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Pokédolia!
December 29th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Heh, I thought it was a Kangaroo and I’m not even an Aussie!
Pete
December 29th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Thanks for the laugh BA. That got me going.
December 29th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Is this a promotion for the new movie: “Cydonia Hilla Chihuahua?”
December 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Listening to the sound of his grapthor’s voice.
December 29th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I thought it looked like a llama!
But, the Face of Dog is funnier.
December 29th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Hey Richard, I’m about to send in my second IYA 365 days podcast in a week or so. Tis fun!
December 29th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Looks a hell of a lot more like a dog than Canis Major does.
December 29th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Zapp: “The great stone face of Mars. Hmm, the only known entrance to the marsian reservation.”
Leela: “What about the great stone ass of Mars?”
Zapp: “Well, yeah. But it’s way on the other side of the planet.”
Futurama – Where the Buggalo Roam
December 29th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Yesssssss Demolition Man. *kicks self* Forgive me for confusing my Stalone movies. *takes one step down the manhood scale* lol
December 29th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
They found the Drama Llama on Mars! No wonder that face thing was such a hullabaloo.
December 29th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
clearly its a Llama… er um MoonLlama
December 30th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Well, I’m not from OZ, but it must clearly be some kind of Marsupial
December 30th, 2008 at 7:29 am
hehe! If Paris Hilton Where a martian…….
December 30th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Fluffy! You leave that nice planet alone and come home this instant. First the mail man, then cars now he’s off chasing planets!
December 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
At first glance, I see a llama. I love llamas. I’ve never like chihuahuas, an older relative had one when I was a kid and it was mean yet prone to having it’s eyes pop out.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
It is a Martian Rust Guanacos (related to the Llama), makes perfect sense. Also explains the Nazca lines.
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December 30th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Why no comment? I can think of lotsa things to say about that!
Skippy (the bush kangaroo) has bounded a long way up …
Or are the aliens telling us they are from Sirius or Procyon – the big and Lil’FDiogstars -or Sirius b the white dwarf “Pup”/
Or any other stars in Canis Majoris / Minoris … Or Canes Venatici (the
hunting diogs constellations with Cor Caroli Alpha Canum Venaticorum) as lucida (brightest star) ..
Anyway: Where’s it from?
Yeah, Mars I know but the photo is via ..???
December 31st, 2008 at 5:46 am
Oh no! Martians have been watching “Beverly Hills Chihuahuas”
We’re doomed!
December 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am
I do not believe in Dog! I believe in Cat!
Oh great. A cat that looks like a chihuahua. What is this world coming to? We’re all going to die!
December 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
what faces? I only see the image of the virgin Mary
February 5th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
You found Yumigami! ^_^
April 25th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Why do people bother with such stuff?