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Humanoid Shape Spotted on Mercury
universetoday.com ^
| September 16, 2013
| by Jason Major on
Posted on 09/16/2013 11:22:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In yet another instance of the phenomenon known as pareidolia, it’s hard not to see the vaguely human shape in this image of Mercury’s surface, acquired by the MESSENGER spacecraft in July 2011. But what looks like a person with upraised arms (resembling, the team suggests, a certain carbonite-encased space smuggler) is really an ancient block of surface crust that juts from the floor of Mercury’s vast Caloris basin — likely the remnants of harder material predating the basin-forming impact 3.9 billion years ago. The low angle of sunlight from the west helps to highlight the surface shapes.
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This elevated rise on Mercury resembles a vaguely humanoid shape Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/104773/humanoid-shape-spotted-on-mercury/#ixzz2f56MGZlY
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:22:18 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Not nearly as convincing as that one on Mars.
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:23:34 AM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: BenLurkin
They have their heads in the clouds again or stuck....
To: BenLurkin
I see a tooth.
Or is it Mary?
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:24:00 AM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:24:48 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
It looks like the Gingerbread guy in Shrek!
"Not my gumdrop buttons!"
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:24:49 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: fwdude
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:26:24 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:27:05 AM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: BenLurkin
I hate to see what they find on Uranus.
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:28:14 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: KC_Lion
I hate to see what they find on Uranus.Klingons.
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:29:03 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DonaldC
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:29:11 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Don't blame me for McCain.)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Looks like her right boob is bigger than her left...
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:30:24 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: dfwgator
I spit coffee out of my nose when i scrolled down to this....thanks!
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:30:41 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: DonaldC
Looks like the Pilsbury Dough Boy.
To: equaviator
Looks more like.....Obama’s Birth Certificate.
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:31:49 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: BenLurkin
Took some tough SOBs to carve that out, Mercury ya know, a bit tepid.
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:33:15 AM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: dfwgator
One thing I can always find on FreeRepublic.
A lot of humor.
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:35:52 AM PDT
by
lucky american
(The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/16/2013 11:36:00 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
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