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I'm not always a fan of comicbooks sometimes I don't like a story, or don't like the art or sometimes I want humor to be better or sometimes I grow tired of the big 2 Marvel and DC, but I admire the huge level of work this guy has done

I think independent comicbook creation all those other animation studios before Disney and after, the ability to explore ideas was one of those things that always made American culture very unique.

Here is a little mars on earth
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louis wrote:

A thought-provoking video from Art Alien TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzw7Y2NE44&t=130s

I think 95% of people looking at that image, if asked, would say "It looks like an ape."

That doesn't make it an ape or a carving of an ape or anything to do with an ape but it does mean we have to ask some questions:

1.  How much of Mars has been surveyed so far within say 1 Km of the rovers? I'd guess not much more than 1000 Sq kms if that. How many anomalies like this "ape" have been found within this surveyed area? I'd say at least 200 images that contain v. puzzling phenomena. Why are so many anomalies being found? I don't accept the "anomaly rate" (as in "rocks that look like other things") is anything like on Earth. So either there is a geological explanation peculiar to Mars or we are looking at the remains of a pre-existing civilisation and ecosystem.

2. What does "pareidolia" mean in this context? We are told it is "the tendency for incorrect perception of a stimulus as an object, pattern or meaning known to the observer, such as [amongst other things] seeing faces in inanimate objects".  If 95% of people see an ape, isn't it more likely that it is the 5% who don't who are perceiving incorrectly. What we have here is either an incredible coincidence - a rock face that really does look like an ape face (and not the only such image, of course) - or we have a genuine ape artefact. What we don't have is people "imagining" they can see something.

3. Why does NASA seem so uninterested in such images? Did they really expect there would be so many anomalous images found on Mars? 

4. Of course a genuine ape artefact would mean we had to reshape our whole understanding of the solar system and life. How would we go about that. Has there always been an intimate connection between life on Mars and on Earth? Is convergent evolution more applicable than we thought?

Sure it looks like what you said, but it is another reflective rock, not a sculpture in my professional opinion.

I can also glimpse part of the rovers wheels, but the rest, is a mystery. But more interesting is the background or the Martian clouds, or it is obviously an overcast day on Mars.

As l read recently, some can see the real reality or follow the evidence, and others, spooked by where it is leading, will keep their heads in the sand and go after the ones upsetting them with facts.

NASA is releasing this as a trickle so the smart ones, will be able to see Mars as it is, and won't go and smash a tv store's windows in when the big announcement is made, and can calm down the insane ones, that don't want to know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np62A9qflyE

An interesting video with plenty of artefacts that need thorough investigation.