Mars Base Found on Google Mars

[Christopher]

^ Yeah that guy sounds stupid in the video.



There is the image I took. 71°49'19.71"N 29°32'59.85"W

Ooh, notice the inset, with the crosshairs showing where the close-up is on the map. It's near the north pole,and along the top of the inset I can see a number of similar (but larger) horizontal streaks of white that are probably gaps in the data. So that's a more likely explanation than my earlier thought.

 

[WillsBabe]

Mars base? Looks more like a clump of about 10 white pixels heavily compressed to JPG to me. Could just as easily be something quickly zipping past the lens as the shot was being taken, or an artifact from editing the pictures together.

Yes, yes, but I want it to be a secret base on Mars, damnit!

 

[Samurai8472]

We can't go there, that's where the ice warriors are and the water.

 

[Squiggy]

Paging Squiggy... paging Squiggy...

Trust me...when NASA discovers something, we're not going to hide it from the world only to accidentally release it by forgetting to photoshop out some pixels on Mars.

 

[Australis]

Yeah, you're part of the conspracy, maaan! You are The Man!

<reduced to incoherent ravings>

 

[Trekker4747]

Yeah, you're part of the conspracy, maaan! You are The Man!

<reduced to incoherent ravings>

It's funny because I picture Woody Harrelson from "2012" saying this.

 

[Jetfire]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43299687/ns/technology_and_science-science/

No, say experts: "Bio Station Alpha" is simply a glitch in the image caused by cosmic energy interfering with the camera.
"It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray," said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the director of the Planetary Imaging Research Laboratory. McEwen is the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), a powerful telescope currently orbiting Mars.

My question is...can they use the telescope to look at the area again?

"I can't tell whether this image was taken by Viking or what," McEwen said. "The people at Google need to document what the heck they're doing. They should be able to identify what the source of their information is, and let people know so they can go back and look at the raw data."

Huh? He seems pretty emotional about that.

 

[Candlelight]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43299687/ns/technology_and_science-science/

No, say experts: "Bio Station Alpha" is simply a glitch in the image caused by cosmic energy interfering with the camera.
"It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray," said Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the director of the Planetary Imaging Research Laboratory.

...plus swamp gas bouncing off Venus hit by a weather balloon...

 

[Christopher]

Of course, a cosmic ray, I should've thought of that. I just finished reading an SF novel series in which cosmic-ray damage to the equipment was a plot point.

 

[Kirby]

Is that where they make the Soylent Green?

 

[bigdaddy]

Paging Squiggy... paging Squiggy...

Trust me...when NASA discovers something, we're not going to hide it from the world only to accidentally release it by forgetting to photoshop out some pixels on Mars.

NASA didn't discover anything... They are the ones that put it there!!!

 

[Ayelbourne]

Ooh, notice the inset, with the crosshairs showing where the close-up is on the map. It's near the north pole,and along the top of the inset I can see a number of similar (but larger) horizontal streaks of white that are probably gaps in the data. So that's a more likely explanation than my earlier thought.

Looks like a standard mouse cursor to me. Maybe it's a screenshot of the actual picture that through some error made it on the digital Mars globe.
The globe's geometry would explain why the cursor looks a bit warped.

 

[Roland Deschain]

The guy who released those photos has apparently produced hoax pictures before.

"Walson has been summarily dismissed by even the farthest fringes of the UFO crowd after years of shenanigans and claiming his magical process of modifying a camera and telescope allows him to see "Far Above Space and Time". Despite years of requests for him to demonstrate or even roughly describe his "process", he divulges nothing. Eventually he got so lazy he started manipulating other people's photos to create new fakes. In addition, he has defrauded people buying his dvds, stalked individuals, made easily disproven claims and turned out to have a rather ugly and clinically dangerous personal life. He constantly posts on the internet using multiple sock puppets to drum up business for his DVD's, with "gridkeeper" being his favorite alternate personality. He and his puppets (including gridkeeper) have been banned almost universally from most forums that take their subject matter seriously.

If you want some funny reading, check out his antics on Bad Astronomy, where he tries to do verbal battle with staunch skeptics by refusing to acknowledge even the slightest need for technical plausibility or verifiable and repeatable results. I am the first to say that the Bad Astronomy guys tend to go to extremes to summarily dismiss anything out of the ordinary, but watching him think he can convince them to buy his stuff with faked pictures and absolutely no technical explanation for how they are taken was damn funny. "

 

[Jetfire]

^ Huh?

The guy's name is David Martines. And you can check it out yourself using Google Earth, explore Mars. Here are the coordinates 71°49'19.71"N 29°32'59.85"W.

 

[Squiggy]

Paging Squiggy... paging Squiggy...

Trust me...when NASA discovers something, we're not going to hide it from the world only to accidentally release it by forgetting to photoshop out some pixels on Mars.

NASA didn't discover anything... They are the ones that put it there!!!

 

[flipjack]

Remember rod UFOs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gul1bjImnuM

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

 

[scotpens]

It's interesting, but it could be anything. I do like how he automatically starts talking about it possibly being an alien waystation. Way to go for the logical conclusions first, guy.

“Occam’s Razor? Never heard of it. Does it give a closer shave than a Gillette Sensor?”

Look a mobile home on Mars!

Which can mean only one thing: We’re about to be invaded by Martian trailer trash!

 

[drychlick]

i hope it real!

 

[sojourner]

Oh, it's real. That's an actual image error your seeing. It's not your imagination.