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Originally posted by thelionofbabel
reply to post by mblahnikluver
Please look at it yourself in google mars. search the surrounding area or all of mars for that matter. You will find nothing like it. I respect the opinion that it is natural. But how can ll the sides measure the same length?
Originally posted by thelionofbabel
This can not be made by natural means.
Latitude: 47°28'32.07"N
Longitude: 170°32'25.19"E
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by thelionofbabel
Do you have Google Earth on your computer?
I just went to look, on my version. Using the coordinates from the YouTube description:
Latitude: 47°28'32.07"N
Longitude: 170°32'25.19"E
(It is slightly East of the area, but close enough). I took a nice, long look....comparing the way the Sun was shining at the time, and the resulting shadows.
The "three-armed starfish" shape (which is as apt a description as any) is NOT a "positive"....it is a depression. It is very, very obvious, when you look carefully. The sides of the chasm are lit up, as are the sides of the adjacent crater wall, to the SouthEast....just as, 180 degrees around, in the NorthWest, is a great deal of shadowing. This would make the Sun somewhere past its zenith, and what would be about "mid afternoon" on Earth.
(Since the day ---called a "sol"--- on Mars is 24 hours, 37 minutes long, this is actually quite familiar, IF you could actually visit Mars. And, at that latitude? A bit like upper USA, a bit South of the UK....etc. Mars' axial tilt is also very close, within a few degrees, to Earth's, so seasonally will have similar Sun height changes, above the horizon....).
Originally posted by JohnySeagull
Originally posted by thelionofbabel
This can not be made by natural means.
? Why not?
Have you ever seen a snowflake? A close up pic ?
Nature can be very precise.
Have a look at this piece of nature in action. www.fibonacci.name...
Also note the 3 ABOVE GROUND hills just east of the object. The photo clearly shows these are not holes but they are above ground.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by thelionofbabel
I am afraid you should look more carefully, and at more of the surrounding terrain.
Also note the 3 ABOVE GROUND hills just east of the object. The photo clearly shows these are not holes but they are above ground.
Look again....quite near the "three-prongs" to the "right and down" (Make sure North is straight up)....this would be to the SouthEast, yes?
It is a small, "potato-shaped" depression. Again, it exhibits the same lighting/shading as the bigger "3-prong" depression. It is really quite obvious. Unless your mind is set on seeing it as a "bump"....and that is a perceptual problem. ("glitch" in the way our brains sometimes process visual information).
Like, this example....the famous "Hollow Mask" illusion. Seen it? This one is done with computer graphics, as opposed to an actual, physical object, but it's the same effect:
Non-rotating, but the light direction "moving":
A bit different, but interesting (and really, based on the same "flaw" in our perceptions):
[edit]-- OK, that one I picked, from many, coz the music wasn't so bad as the others...BUT it didn't explain itself well. Open up the YT link, and read there.....'K?
Sorry, but "3-prong" thingy is a depression ..... Looks a lot like a sinkhole of some sort maybe, as does the "potato shape" nearby....There's another, larger one almost due South......
edit on 28 February 2011 by weedwhacker because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by thelionofbabel
reply to post by phantomjack
Really? Show me one example of a natural Perfectly Symmetrical structure with equal dimensions here on earth or anywhere else.edit on 28-2-2011 by thelionofbabel because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by thelionofbabel
reply to post by Argyll
There is symmetry here? equal dimension of rocks? i see none. Random sizes of rocks simply looking the same. what if each one of those rocks had the dimensions of the cube. Equal on all sides? would you say it is natural?