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Are you trying to make me look like a kook or something? If this is your game, it will not work.
I would be interested to know your qualifications and experience in relation to the images being discussed here.
What research have you done with reference to the images of the Moon and Mars?
Originally posted by Chamberf=6
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Are you trying to make me look like a kook or something? If this is your game, it will not work.
Actually your posts accomplish that on their own.
reply to post by arianna
What research have you done with reference to the images of the Moon and Mars?
Originally posted by dcmb1409
reply to post by arianna
What research have you done with reference to the images of the Moon and Mars?
Probably as much if not more than you have but instead of corrupting data that "no one" can see structures on, I look at the originals from lunar archives, the mars sites, etc. and have only found natural formations and interesting panorama's..
You won't find me listed on any NASA site or institute as an advisory or as a fellow in good standing as I am sure you are not listed on any scientific sites either. If scientific study only requires the scanning of images and playing with saturation and sizing, then I guess you may call me a scientist as well.
The boulders and their trails website that was posted refutes an individual's claim of radio and water towers on the lunar surface and takes the most logical and scientific method to point out the boulders and their trails in images that is obvious to even the most untrained eye.
Originally posted by Thunda
Wow, seems in some threads you can fill pages with totally off topic nonsense (I mean 'the simpsons' and 'the twighlight zone'? Please...), and in others, the thread gets shut down. Im sure this post will probably disppear too........
Makes me wonder if there is some reason behind rubbishing threads
Who scans images? I obtain the original photographic material from official sources.
No, there's nothing wrong with enhancing the images, the problem is that what you are doing is not an enhancement, as it makes things look worse. If you applied your process to make lighter areas more visible, then you would be making enhancements on those areas, but you are making all other areas worse.
Originally posted by arianna
There is nothing wrong with enhancing images. It does not change what we are being led to believe is an original. The lunar images are a typical example. The enhancement process, although more vigorously applied, has shown that there is 'hidden' detail embedded in certain images.
No, the description has not been shown to be incorrect, say the truth, please: you don't believe in the description, but you haven't shown a thing about it, you have just talked about it.
I believe what you are referring to is the description which has been shown to be incorrect by what is the detail revealed in the enhanced images.
This is what I like the least about you, the way you say things as if you are the only right person in the World and everybody else is wrong. You being wrong? Impossible, it was the people that really know how to work with the images that are wrong.
Of course, this could just be the image processing staff didn't know what they were really looking at so they could have gone along with the following school of thought. Yes, that's what ithe view looks like so we''ll put that in the description...
The image is lg_7751 from the Phoenix mission which can be easily verified.
Originally posted by DJW001
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The image is lg_7751 from the Phoenix mission which can be easily verified.
Arianna, please tell me you are pulling our legs. What I am about to say, I say in all earnestness. I am not trying to be mean or ridicule you. What I am about to say I say out of compassion. If you genuinely believe you see a tiny city in a scoop full of dirt, you require professional attention. If you do not believe in modern western psychology, seek out a counselor from a tradition that you have faith in. (Just not a channeler or ET abductee counselor, please.) A priest, a rabbi, an imam, even a Wiccan priestess or professional astrologer will help you to understand why you need to re-evaluate the way you look at the world and communicate with it.
This isn't a two sided contest, the only option is that we all win, you included.
Originally posted by arianna
OK, you all win.
Yes, but, I think that knowledge is also highly valuable, that's why I don't mind (and even like) to spend some of my free time trying to spread the knowledge I have gathered (or so I see it) during my life.
My time and your time is valuable.
One of the reasons behind the problem is the way you determined that scientific credibility. Just thinking that something has some scientific credibility doesn't make it so, you should always test your own tools and thought processes to see if you are making any mistake that will make the end result, at least, unreliable.
I have posted images in this thread which I believe had some scientific credibility but at nearly every turn my analysis is rejected as well as being accused of 'butchering' the images.
As I said before, the problems I see with the way you used the enhancements is that you should not use a method that increases contrast (reducing the number of shades of grey on the image) and then look for areas of the image that had some of the original data destroyed by that increase in contrast. Sure, an increase in contrast can show some areas better, but it will destroy the areas that are in the opposite point, contrast wise.
The amount of enhancement I have applied to some of the images was deliberate. Therefore, if some of you believe the amount of enhancement I have applied to be 'butchering' that's your perogative.
I'm not really an image expert, but I am used to work with images, both as a end user and as a programmer, working with the direct image data or specific file formats, and I have seen several people talk about some kind of "embedded information", but not one of those had a real knowledge of how things work. For example, in a common file format like JPEG there isn't any way of having embedded information, unless you use something like steganography. Image data is always image data, and is never hidden.
So, as you all seem to be imaging experts you tell me, how else can any embedded information hidden in an image be determined?
They weren't like your "high-level enhancements" because we tried not to destroy any data from the photos. As I said before, if you are looking at getting a better image in the brighter areas, any enhancement you do can only really be useful for the brighter areas, as the darker areas are badly affected by a process that is meant to show brighter areas.
The images submitted by other members are not what I call real high-level enhancements because if any of you had used the same enhancement method I had employed you would have realized that the new detail showing up after the enhancement was genuine.
I'm glad you find it interesting.
The test ArMaP set was interesting. I accepted the test in good faith but it just goes to show how even a dedicated researcher can be mislead, just like some of you are being mislead about what appears to be boulders and boulder trails when I have visually proved them to be not what they appear.
No, it's not easy, and that's why I try to avoid stating things like I was certain of the truth is. The truth is nobody can be 100% sure of anything, even if we were on the Moon.
Determinig the difference is not easy as the ArMaP test has proved.
No, it doesn't make me feel happier, but if you are honestly admitting that you were following the wrong path and will start looking at other ways to find out the truth, then I will be happier.
So, if it makes you all feel happier, I freely admit that my analysis and interpretation of the images has been totally misguided and I apologise for wasting everybody's time...... unless someone out there in cyberspace with imaging expertize can verify what I have posted because I am sure that no scientist would dare to tread this path.
Why don't you show them? If most people were against your image processing (as I am, at least when used as you are using), if you post unaltered images then nobody can use that against your interpretation, and, as far as interpretations go, anyone is free to make their own.
It's a shame that things have developed as they have. I was just on the verge of presenting some images which have not been enhanced that show structures on a martian rock that could only have been constructed by tiny-sized life-forms. A true 3-D close-up image has also been produced which shows the same.
Have a look and see what you think. Use the direct view to examine the full image.