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Greetings, children Captain D here, it is seems that a great many of you are from England.
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Were you aware that aside from introducing the world to bolder hats, Monty Python and the art of acting gay without actually being gay? The innovators and some of England filming in television post production facilities in the 80’s have been largely responsible for bringing the visual effect industry into the digital round. It is true.
You guys are all right, which makes what I am about to say although more difficult.
I submit to you that not everything to come out of England is actually good.
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Order, order, I will draw your attention to exhibit A.
It was the London Evening Standard that first broke the story about the mysterious NASA photograph showing what looks like a person on the surface of Mars. And of course, it was not too long before CNN America pick up the scent.
Exhibit B, this one comes from NASA. Take a look at it. It is the Mars explorers, who sent back this image from Mars 40 years ago. I know the photo is creating a lot of excitement, particularly on the internet. Is that a man on Mars, the guy who walking stroller? No, you… I am sorry. We should keep an open mind then examine the evidence, right?
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After all this does look significantly anthropomorphic and did you know that around the time of this signage the Mars explorers’ spirits stop transmitting data shortly before it started up again and everything was fine.
Hey, kids. Today is daily word of the day is piada … piada searching, the brain’s tendency to find meaningful patterns in vague and random stimuli.
Look, there is another one and there and that guys tripped, we are doomed.
What that does not do anything for you? Well, that is because this does not like just any guys strolling along Mars, it looks like this particular image of this particular guy in this particular monkey suite.
The mind does not take anything at face the value. You see an image and the mind immediately compares it to something similar you have seen before and an assumption is made, but maybe that assumption is completely wrong.
And, when life gets confusing it is best to zoom out. This is the full panoramic image assembled from the rover’s transmission. These rocks are adjacent to the ones in which the rover is standing. These rocks are only a few feet away and the mystery object is only a few inches tall, but to be fair, so as the only known Martian, aside from that the part of the image that features the anomaly is taken at the down ward angle, which would place the Martian walking at a strange 45 degree tilt. And, everybody knows that only earthling do that. Final conclusion, the picture is of a weird rock and unless you live on a gas giant that is definitely not news worthy.
I do not know what kind of operation you are running out there Evening Standard, but my advice is stick to factual stories and bobs your Uncle.
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And, now for something completely different.
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