The resemblence of a Martian rock to a coffin has set about UFO enthusiasts excited , with some demanding that NASA stop read Martian geology until Curiosity has checked the object out .
As a publicly funded agency , NASA releases all the images from its space vehicle and rovers . This is great both for science and public awareness , but it does make it easy for conspiracy theorists to go to township . The latest example is the image at the top , which is a close - up of this , more unobjectionable image which is visible with thousands of othersat NASA ’s web site .
NASA / JPL . The wide angle view with the " coffin " near the front . in person , we are more intrigued by the half buried dragon behind .
If you cansit through the intact videoyou can wintess 13 minutes of “ UFOlogist " Will Farrar explaining how he set up the image , shrink from with the color scheme and getting agitate by how some of the rocks in the field look like they were carved by alien civilization . To his credit Farrar is n’t actually evoke that a hyperintelligent species crossed the vast gulf between the champion so they could leave a coffin on the Earth’s surface of the solar system ’s fourth satellite . The text below the video starts with , “ Before you get to annotate and wasting your clip . NOBODY HERE THINKS ITS A REAL COFFIN . It is SHAPED like a casket or long rectangular boxful . ”
Nevertheless , Farrar does seem to think the shape might be measuredly carved , asking , “ What would it take to get NASA to wrench the rover around and try the subject of this box ? ” plentifulness of others have leap on the bandwagon . One site visit it“Incomprehensible that NASA takes no activity to study the Harlan Fiske Stone corner . ” Which is why science is not conducted by popular voting .
UFO fans just do n’t quit . Like Charlie Brown and the football game , it does n’t seem to weigh how many time they are proved wrong , they just keep coming back with new theory about how an curious shape or shadow is evidence of alien civilisation . Last year it was the shadow on the moon thatlooked like a giant manbut turned out to besomething on the camera lens
Before that it was the aspect on Mars :
And somewhere in between we had avery lost squirrel .
It seems it is just too hard to take that evolution has wired out brains forpareidolia , since seeing things that were not there was less dangerous to our antecedent than escape thing that were .
There is one thing where we have to agree with Farrar though . At one point in the TV he tell , “ You could sit here and do this allll day long . ”
H / T to the wonderful Annalee Newitz atio9
