It's a change of lighting... easily understood. . . and can be seen by modifying the pictures with Photoshop.
Are you serious?
Posted on 02/11/2014 3:41:44 PM PST by lbryce
As if NASA didn't have enough to worry about, the U.S. space agency is now faced with the scandal of the century — they’re being sued for not investigating a bona fide life form on Mars!
Whoa, that's a biggie.
Except, it isn't. In fact, it’s quite funny.
Remember when news broke about the mystery Mars rock that mysteriously appeared in front of Mars rover Opportunity? Well, according to petitioner Rhawn Joseph, the official explanation for said “mystery” rock — that scientists have dubbed "Pinnacle Island" — is a complete sham. Why? Well, through flawless reasoning skills, Joseph thinks that this is in fact proof of alien life on Mars and NASA is unwilling to investigate any further.
Joseph says it is actually a "mushroom-like fungus, a composite organism consisting of colonies of lichen and cyanobacteria, and which on Earth is known as Apothecium."
For an agency that is currently looking for habitats comfy for life as we know it, it sounds grossly negligent that one of their rovers should see a Martian Spongebob Squarepants pop up in front of its camera only for it to be fluffed over as "just a rock."
According to the writ, Joseph wants to:
"… compel and order the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its Chief Administrator Charles Bolden, to perform a public, scientific, and statutory duty which is to closely photograph and thoroughly scientifically examine and investigate a putative biological organism which was identified (and thus discovered) by Petitioner, and photographed on Mars by NASA's Mars' rover Opportunity in January 2014, and which NASA referred to in a press release as: 'unlike anything we have seen before … We are totally confused.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
I don’t understand how this can be mocked.
We’re being asked to believe that a “rock” just “popped up.”
Or that a “rock” “blew in” in an atmosphere so thin that it would have a hard time moving a daisy petal.
Or the “something” made the rock “fall down” without bouncing, impacting or leaving a dust trail.
In other words, we’re being asked to believe absurdities by NASA, and when someone points out that this thing is a close imitation to a fungus that not only looks like it, but acts like it, HE’s a nut?
No.
My first thought was it looked like a gemmae cup from a lichen.
Concur. If NASA has elected not to investigate this rock then how can anyone so readily dismiss the possibility that it is not a rock at all?
You left out the muslims. CAIR is gonna sue!
It's a change of lighting... easily understood. . . and can be seen by modifying the pictures with Photoshop.
Seems to me that people have some awfully unrealistic expectations of NASA combined with a complete ignorance of science. If any life is to be found on mars it won’t be found strolling or even laying on the surface. Life on mars will be microbes found under ground.
The Spirit and Opportunity rovers photographed some things that looked suspiciously like tiny fossils to me. NASA said they could have been formed by natural geologic processes. Maybe they were and maybe they weren’t. I certainly don’t expect NASA to make proclamations about finding fossils without definitive proof and that proof won’t be coming from a rover.
The martian environment makes an Antarctic mountaintop in winter seem downright balmy. The soil is toxic and radioactive. The summer daytime temperatures are about as warm as the coldest places on earth and plummet into -triple digits at night.
I personally think we will eventually find evidence of simple past life on mars but it won’t happen till we put people on the ground who bring back proof. The rovers are to expensive to use chasing every fantasy the conspiracy theorists come up with.
It's a change of lighting... easily understood. . . and can be seen by modifying the pictures with Photoshop.
Are you serious?
LOL!
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