Comments on: A dragon fight in the heart of Orion

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:45:24 +0000

“Advance our standards, set upon our foes Our ancient world of courage fair
St. George Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons…..”

Richard III. act v, sc.3.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:14:40 +0000

Is it bad that the second I saw the word “Dragon” I thought of Skyrim?…

By: J

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:31:34 +0000

It also looks like there is a shark breathing fire coming in from the bottom in the full sized picture.

By: brenna

brenna — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:57:29 +0000

I’ve recently come to the conclusion that nebulae show memories from someones life after they’ve died. I was looking at a few others and saw a woman leaned over crying and another woman moving from laying down to sitting. I’ve been doing art work about it ever since.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:29:43 +0000

It’s like gazing at the side of G-d’s van.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:38:49 +0000

I think the bearding man is swinging a sword as well; exploding in fire against the dragon’ s head. You can definitely see an arm.

Although the fore-shortend right hand (by the ‘shoulder’) pointing out of the image is pretty good as well.

By: Month in Space: September 2011

Month in Space: September 2011 — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:24:56 +0000

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By: Weez

Weez — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:54:21 +0000

I’m of a slightly different opinion than reidh. Perhaps the ancient greeks COULD see the orion nebula clearly, and that is why they created the story of orion. i’m not sure if the greeks have any legends of ‘visitors from beyond the stars’, but i do know that many other ancient civilizations do. perhaps the greeks were shown this image by an interstellar species?

scoff if you must people, but do not deny the plausibility of these occurrences. if one man chooses to believe in Big Bang and evolution, and another in God or Allah; shouldn’t another man be free to choose alien visitation?

By: J-man

J-man — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:40:27 +0000

Never seen the faces either – but the reason I googled on this picture is because of the HAND. Have you not seen that? It’s the most obvious part to me. Just below-right of the head and much bigger. Kind of like the man is reaching out for something… You can clearly see the pinky finger nail on this right hand as well.

By: Orion nebula pareidolia | krazy kimchi

Orion nebula pareidolia | krazy kimchi — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:58:18 +0000

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By: Theo Ross

Theo Ross — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:29:13 +0000

Clearly in honor of the upcoming Skyrim release.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:35:54 +0000

I also see some feminine genetalia on the high-contrast version at the bottom of the man’s back. Perhaps I’m just in need.

By: TiagoTiago

TiagoTiago — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:58:32 +0000

Only after a while i saw the dragon; what i easily saw from the start was a grinning super saiyan shooting a kamehameha at an incoming attacker.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:01:26 +0000

@Sam H

Bible? Literary beauty? Surely you jest.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:32:29 +0000

Am I the only one that can see the skull in the bottom left corner of the picture and the neck and bowed head of a child just about the bottom right corner? I dont have time to read all the comments.

By: Aly

Aly — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:47:00 +0000

I saw many many comments about the pareidoliac effect where the mind’s eye see what it wants to see, or what was suggested . Well its ok I agree with all those theories and comproved effects. But did u ever try to invert logics once? One of Consciousness’ definitions is the relation between the mind and the world with which it interacts. Humans are selfish and they think the images things suggest are their mind’s creation…but would an intire galaxy be aware of so-called “human” myths?
Quoting Joseph Campbell,
“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

By: Christopher Booth

Christopher Booth — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:32:52 +0000

I see an x-ray image of Jesus’ lungs. Note that the left lung is greatly compressed or atrophied. Could that deformation be the result of cardiac hypertrophy–i.e., his heart’s just so big…?

But, seriously, I love the word “ensmaugenate”. A stroke of genius there.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:27:45 +0000

I myself noticed this over a year ago and posted it here…

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread569517/pg1

Wouldn’t be surprised if someone saw the topic and took some credit.

By: The Grinch

The Grinch — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:00:58 +0000

Anyone see the Grinch in the lower left corner as well?

By: jlarson897

jlarson897 — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:45:24 +0000

@janet
Dont be ignorant, its not god. There is no god.

By: reidh

reidh — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:02:20 +0000

I am charmed to see that Phil Plait is amused by these paradoliae, actually the entire panoply of hubble and other teloscopic pictures have such phenomenae., i think. Like the mote in god’s eye?

By: reidh

reidh — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:54:39 +0000

I may be repeating any earlier post but, orion was a hunting or fighting great warrior wasn’t he? like nimrod in the bible? anyway he was hunting one day and in the course of the hunt, threatened to kill every beast on Earth. Mother Earth objected and sent a giant scorpion* to kill Orion. The creature succeeded, and after his death, the goddesses asked Zeus to place Orion among the constellations. Zeus consented and, as a memorial to the hero’s death, added the Scorpion to the heavens as well.(* Scorpion is here a type of creature, Greek σκορπίος, not a proper name. The constellation is called Scorpius in astronomy; colloquially, Scorpio, like the related astrological sign — both are Latin forms of the Greek word. Cicero used Nepa, the older Latin word for “scorpion.”)
But maybe those early people KNEW something about these pareidoliac visions but not being able to see them, made up stories. if they had been able to see them, they would have thought them REAL, and would have idolized them as they did the myths. like tom says ‘once you see them you will always see them later. I find it really remarkable that accidental pictures like the photo of the orion nebula have pareidolia within them that are sometimes more exquisite than any existing artistic equivalent. with more subtle shading and coloring etc. it is truly inspiring. BTW has anybody tried viewing paul cezanne’s art with the same kind of perspective?

By: Quase

Quase — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:13:34 +0000

Dang it, was going to do a “burninating the countryside, burninating the sky” joke, but #1 beat me to the Trogdor reference…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:01:14 +0000

The face looks like “white haired God” – or Zeus if you prefer. Amazing stuff!

By: Chewbacca

Chewbacca — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:47:36 +0000

I once saw a picture of chuck norris on my toast, that didn’t mean anything. Does this?