Posted on 03/29/2019 12:16:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Waring's claims are not backed up by scientific evidence – space boffins have not found any clues that there is, or ever was, intelligent life on Mars.
Alien expert Nigel Watson, author of 'UFOs of the First World War, said Waring's claims were little more than fairy tale.
"It is a stretch of the imagination to see this rock as representing the head of Socrates," Watson told The Sun.
"Certainly Mars has not been habitable for human existence for a very long time, so it is impossible that he could have lived there or had a statue made of him a few thousand years ago.
"As a philosopher he might have liked Waring's 'thinking outside the box', but he would have posed plenty of questions about the logic of this argument."
Waring's finds are likely the result of pareidolia, a bizarre effect which causes the brain to see shapes, structures and patterns where they do not exist.
According to Nasa: "Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon where people see recognisable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.
"There are many examples of this phenomenon on Earth and in space."
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
you see things when high on crack..
intelligent life on Mars...
There’s barely any intelligent life here.
LOL! Knew it was the brits reporting. They never quite understood that “NASA” is a pronounced thingy. Always lower case ‘asa’.
If you look long enough at the bathroom floor, you’re bound to see something strange but is it really worth it..
This crap is worse the Paul C. Hoaglund’s “Face on Mars” by a long shot.
Blurry blow-up of rocks 2 inches long?
Pathetic.
NASA found an original copy of the Steele Dossier on Mars. It is an ancient story of how a coup is fabricated. And, yes, Hillary paid for that one, too.
Same with my living room. If I look often enough, I’ll see dust everywhere.......so I don’t look.
Sometimes a rock is just a rock.
If you’re a Nyanzipithecus alesi climbing in the branches looking for some juicy hanging fruit, and out of the corner of your eye you think you spot a shadow that might be a leopard and you leap to the next tree and it turns out there is no leapord, well, you haven’t lost that much, assuming you’re good at leaping and didn’t have much risk of a fall.
But if you ignore the shadow because it doesn’t look that much like a leopard but actually turns out to be one, well, you’ve just been Darwin-awarded out of the gene pool.
So we’re all programmed to see significance in shadows that are just shadows and dim shapes that are just dim shapes.
It’s what we are.
The whole purpose of education is to rise above your brute genetic programming. Some people never do.
Good policy. It’s habit forming.
It's Richard...
....So what's new pussycat?
And sixty years ago we were told there were canals on Mars to move water from the poles to the dry areas for crops to grow.
We used to have a green marble linoleum tile that you could see human skulls in the pattern...................
Given that sort of evidence, the question remains, is there intelligent life on Earth?
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