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    Rover photo of metallic object has internet in a UFO frenzy

    IT’s shiny. It’s sharp. It’s on Mars. It must be aliens! What appears
    to be a chunk of metal photographed by the Opportunity Rover has
    UFO buffs in a spin.



    Composite image of the Mars Opportunity rover overlooking a canyon on Mars.



    The high contrast infra-red image, published by the Mars Exploratino Rover Mission (Opportunity: Panoramic Camera: Sol 348) was uploaded by the Opportunity Rover on March 17.
    It shows an unusually shiny, and jagged, object sitting neatly on top of the grainy surface of Mars’ Meridiani Planum.
    It has internet chat forum Reddit in rapture.


    Image of a strange, metallic looking object from the Mars Opportunity rover.



    “Uh NASA? UFO Caught on Mars Rover Mission? Is this real?” posted Prosaic Origin.

    If it looks odd, of course it must be aliens!

    But at least in this case the resolution is reasonably crisp. Not a blurry morass like most UFO ‘evidence’.

    “Looks like light glimmering off of a genuine spaceship on an alien planet in outer space,” one commentator noted.

    But, for that to be true, there’s the small matter of scale. At that distance from the Opportunity Rover, any inhabitants would probably have to be no larger than ants.

    A more down to Earth (though admittedly this is Mars we’re talking about here) suggestion was that it could be a piece of debris from the rover itself, or a heat shield from the craft that delivered it.

    Earthly trash is increasingly common on the Red Planet, especially after a string of mission failures in recent decades. Satellites have gone awry. Landers have crashed.


    Debris from the Mars Opportunity Rover's lander vehicle litters the
    Martian landscape.



    But even successful projects litter the landscape with debris as they plough through the thin atmosphere.

    And Opportunity has been travelling back along the line of its lander’s approach. It has photographed discarded bits and pieces before.

    This photo is just the latest in a long list of odd objects that have caused excited viewers to fall foul of the phenomenon of pareidolia.

    Essentially, they’re seeing what they want to see because of the way the human mind always tries to find familiar patterns among odd shapes.

    Such as rabbits in clouds.

    Or secret Nazi moon bases.

    Or faces on Mars.

    Or Martian hieroglyphs.

    Or itsy, bitsy, incy wincy tiny alien spacecraft.


    BELIEVE IT! OR NOT!


    Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/sc...720df274f4b4f1


    peace...

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    My vote is for Nazis. I can vaguely see an Iron Cross on the side.

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    Lego nazis? They'd be the right size, apparently.

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    Quote Originally posted by Dreamtimer View Post
    Lego nazis? They'd be the right size, apparently.
    Really? Have you seen such? I need to order them!

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    Oi! You lot!
    What about us Meccano Nazis? We have feelings too you know!!

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    Quote Originally posted by Barbarella View Post
    Oi! You lot!
    What about us Meccano Nazis? We have feelings too you know!!
    Meccano Nazi Legos!!! It just keeps getting better and better!

    I'm going down to the Lego store NOW!

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    Quote Originally posted by Dumpster Diver View Post
    My vote is for Nazis. I can vaguely see an Iron Cross on the side.
    The nazi saucer that landed on mars in 1945

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    Quote Originally posted by Outlander View Post
    The nazi saucer that landed on mars in 1945
    That footage of the approach of Mars as seen through the view port, and the zooming in on the creature in the Martian soil are from a 1970s television broadcast called "Alternative 3", which was intended as a deception, similar to Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War Of The Worlds".
    = DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR =

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    Quote Originally posted by Aragorn View Post
    That footage of the approach of Mars as seen through the view port, and the zooming in on the creature in the Martian soil are from a 1970s television broadcast called "Alternative 3", which was intended as a deception, similar to Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War Of The Worlds".
    I thought it was "soft disclosure"? You need to check signals with David Wilcock, Aragorn. :interview:

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    Come on everyone............should know by now it is the RUSSIANS!!

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    Quote Originally posted by sandy View Post
    Come on everyone............should know by now it is the RUSSIANS!!
    Russians on Mars is not nearly as scary as Nazis...

    ...so I still vote Nazis.

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