Are you an exhausted antiscientist? Has railing against the mainstream science paradigm got you down? Making up "facts" is tough, and it’s tiring CONSTANTLY TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS, using different color fonts, and don’t forget all those exclamation points!!! Not to mention comparing scientists to Hitler and Himmler, and yourself to Galileo and Einstein.
And of course, your mind is soft and not used to real work, so you need to take constant breaks.
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Have I got the time-waster for you! Head (haha, as you’ll see in a sec) on over to Discovery Channel’s Faces of Mars jigsaw puzzle page! There, staring right back at you, you’ll find three clear indications that transhuman aliens from the future dimensions of light have visited the Red Planet and have left us signposts/warnings/idols/guaranteed-money-makers-if-you-yell-loudly-enough.
You’ll have hours of fun here, but be warned: when you finally put the pieces together, you’ll have an actual coherent picture. Don’t be scared, though. Reality sometimes has a way of creeping into even the best conspiracy theory. So sit back and enjoy it. When you’re done, you’ll be in hoag heaven.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Yes, “hoag heaven”. As in “the Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag” ?
June 30th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Speaking of the antiscience, HuffPost actually has a reassuring article shining some light on the science going on in autism research and EDC’s. Very interesting. The comments, however, continue to be disheartening.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-karp/cracking-the-autism-riddl_b_221202.html
June 30th, 2009 at 11:23 am
He’s referring to Richard Hoagland, the nutcase who thinks all the high res images of Cydonia have been “altered” to hide his precious face on Mars.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Sorry Phil, but puzzles are hard work. It’s easier for someone else to do it while I sit back and pawn off my superstitions to innocent children.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:34 am
If anyone ever builds a theme park based on psuedoscientific whackjobbery, it MUST have a section named Hoag Land.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I know just the person who needs one of these LIKE NOBODY’S BUSINESS!!
June 30th, 2009 at 11:50 am
So… If I compare you to Galileo and myself to Hitler, does that make me a scientist?
June 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
@Molly
It would be interesting to know how levels of the chemicals mentioned in that HuffPo article compare to levels in individuals from other countries, e.g., for those who are from third-world countries, where exposure to the chemicals would likely be less.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
They need a proofreader…first puzzle is of a woman’s face in “Certis Major.”
I think they mean Syrtis Major.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
@Todd W
I really would be interesting. I really haven’t done a lot of research as to what other avenues are being looked at in Autism research, but I did appreciate that this article addressed some of the major facts that discredit the vaccine link.
It is also really nice to see that research into other factors is still prgressing. That is my biggest concern about the whole anit-vax issue, that it is diverting precious funding down a dead end.
I’ll be interested to see where these lines of research go, that’s for sure.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I must say, that’s a pretty cool puzzle.
I actually read his book about the monuments of Mars back before the new high resolution images came in. It was well written but definitely a flight of fantasy.
One thing about the book that did strike me was his observation that major features of the planets are on or about 19 degrees from the equator of the planet’s equator. Its true Hawaii, Olympus Mons and the Great Red Spot are all about 19 degrees away from the equator. Pretty interesting coincidence that he says is a result of “Inter dimensional geometry (whatever that means).
June 30th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Funny thing is, even in the hi-res, to me it still looks a little like a face. A face drawn by Picasso on drugs.
June 30th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
“One thing about the book that did strike me was his observation that major features of the planets are on or about 19 degrees from the equator of the planet’s equator. Its true Hawaii, Olympus Mons and the Great Red Spot are all about 19 degrees away from the equator. Pretty interesting coincidence that he says is a result of “Inter dimensional geometry (whatever that means).”
He’s cherry picking his “major features”. Wouldn’t you say that ice-covered Antartica counts as a “major feature” of blue planet earth?
June 30th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
@amphiox: Oh yes. He missed the fact neither Venus, Mercury or Uranus fits his data. Neptune’s Dark Spot did fit until it vanished and reappeared in the northern hemisphere proving that interdimensional geometry is hard.
But still, cool coincidence.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I’m not really quite syrup what just happened. I was so engaged by the actual picture of the puzzle as I could not force my mind to veer over and read the article. But I must just say. I for one, love puzzles. As a puzzle of fact, I am working on a 4 dimensional model that spins (not on its own power unfortunately) and maintains its own measurable zones of simulated relative time.
And calling Earth blue is like calling a blue gum ball blue. Yeah, its blue. But suck on it for an hour and it becomes white. So the gumball isnt really blue. However, if you choose to argue that the blue gumball is indeed Blue, I recommend you suck on it. (thats dedicated to Phil)
June 30th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Sucked into the puzzle dimension and can’t get out.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Hahaha; that’s a great ad, BA! I’d go buy a puzzle … if I had any money.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
You forgot one more thing, data and quote mining is tough too! ^_^
July 1st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Mars isn’t the only planet with a face. A picture you had a week or so ago on Kuiper Crater has a head in the center. Looks like The Creature from the Black Lagoon, or something, with a cell phone up to his right ear!
July 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am
Bill @5 – They already have, it’s called the Creation “Museum” in Kentucky.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:33 am
Laugh Out Loud.
Literally, that’s what I did when I read that.
Snark is good.
July 2nd, 2009 at 5:24 am
To me, it looks like a cyberman from Dr. Who.