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Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said
that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since it turned up in two images taken 30 hours apart. -- David Dalton http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "You've been so long/Well, it's been so long And I've been putting out fire/with gasoline" (David Bowie) |
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David Dalton wrote:
Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since it turned up in two images taken 30 hours apart. It is a trick of light, David. Since the over processed image of the face was made public nearly 50 years ago. 100s of high resolution images have been made and show the face is just a creation of mans imagination. The real problem is the initial image had been nightly over processed and then smoothed. You have to realize the entire face was an area nine square pixels. The processing took nineteen steps to created to create the face. If one took the same resolution image one could create a face out of over 50% of the possible combinations of pixels. Hoagland was discredited years ago. As more and more data has come in to play. He now is nothing more than a huckster hustling his side show. |
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Jeff Findley wrote:
In article l- september.org, says... Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since it turned up in two images taken 30 hours apart. Hogland is wrong. There are other pictures, from orbit, which show no "face". Humans are "hard wired" to see faces in things. Yes. There is or was a we site at one time dedicated to to the effect of humanity need to identify the unknown by building comparisons to the known. Science even has a name for this well known effect: Pareidolia I send pictures of three pronged power outlets which look like faces. Religious people seem to be more prone to seeing the face of Jesus. Even back in high school defects in wood used in woodworking was referred to as cat faces. The problem of false pattern recognition is even described well in statistics as a type one error, and the larger term Apophenia is often used. Hoagland made a career out of the face myth, even to the point of misrepresenting his employment with NASA. Dozens of books all based upon the fallacy of false authority. Hoagland was a contract PR person, never as part of the science team. His actual contract was canceled after it was found out he had misrepresented his qualifications. |
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Bob Officer writes:
Jeff Findley wrote: In article l- september.org, says... Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since it turned up in two images taken 30 hours apart. Hogland is wrong. There are other pictures, from orbit, which show no "face". Humans are "hard wired" to see faces in things. Yes. There is or was a we site at one time dedicated to to the effect of humanity need to identify the unknown by building comparisons to the known. Science even has a name for this well known effect: Pareidolia Definitely. Check out this old photograph: http://www.yoism.org/images/JesusHead.jpg. What do you see first? Now look carefully at what it really is a photo of. |
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Michael Moroney wrote:
Bob Officer writes: Jeff Findley wrote: In article l- september.org, says... Last night I heard an interview with Richard Hoagland in which he said that the face on Mars could not be a trick of light and shadow since it turned up in two images taken 30 hours apart. Hogland is wrong. There are other pictures, from orbit, which show no "face". Humans are "hard wired" to see faces in things. Yes. There is or was a we site at one time dedicated to to the effect of humanity need to identify the unknown by building comparisons to the known. Science even has a name for this well known effect: Pareidolia Definitely. Check out this old photograph: http://www.yoism.org/images/JesusHead.jpg. What do you see first? Now look carefully at what it really is a photo of. A family of four. I used to restore old photos, so I developed a good eye to see what was there. I also used to take multiple shots and printed them out on different grades of paper. You would be surprise what sort of details on could find. I discovered an address which allowed the photos owner to Id a house. -- Yep it is me, and Carole believes adding 2+2 can sometimes equal 3 or 5, and getting wrong answers means you are thinking outside the box. |
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