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From davew@exosci.com Sun May 3 04:53:05 1998 Return-Path: davew@exosci.com Received: from gemini.cybersurf.net (gemini.cybersurf.net [209.197.128.8]) by outflows.phy.ncu.edu.tw (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA18017 for <wchen@outflows.phy.ncu.edu.tw; Sun, 3 May 1998 04:52:59 +0800 Received: from davew.cybersurf.net (calppp142081.cybersurf.net [209.197.142.81]) by gemini.cybersurf.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA21710 for <wchen@outflows.phy.ncu.edu.tw; Sat, 2 May 1998 14:23:42 -0600 Message-Id: <199805022023.OAA21710@gemini.cybersurf.net From: "David Watanabe" <davew@exosci.com Reply-To: davew@exosci.com Subject: eSufo - MGS Commentary / New images To: UFO@exosci.com X-Mailer: Diffondi COOL V2.1 (W95/NT) by Nicola Delfino Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 12:26:59 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Status: Status: RO exoScience U=46O * 5/1/98 * exosci.com/ufo * NEW CYDONIA IMAGES POSTED The images from the 3rd round of MGS Cydonia imaging are available . They are also of the Cydonia "City Square", and focus primarily on a structure sometimes referred to as the "Star", as it seemed to be a star-shaped pyramid. Of course, check it out at our site: http://exosci.com/probes/mgs/ * CYDONIA COMMENTARY Many people have been expecting some kind of commentary from me about the new Cydonia images. Indeed, I intended to write something, but have delayed such commentary for quite some time, partially due to the prospect of new Cydonia images (the final one just being published), but also because I was in the process of changing cities (I am now back in Calgary, AB) leaving me computerless and disoriented (wandering the world without aim or purpose!) for several days. Meaningless personal banter aside, I think all can agree that the images returned by MGS show no signs of artificiality. These formations are, as far as we can tell through visual observation, quite natural. Nevertheless, this is more complicated than it seems. Many people have speculated that the formations are in fact artificial, but have lost their 'edge' through erosion. They substantiate this claim by showing how features on the =46ace match th= e features of a human face. However, this logic is not sound. =46irstl= y , the features of the =46ace are not symmetrical. Thus, they can not possibly be an artificial creation of a 'face'. Secondly, the =46ace would never have been noticed if it did not bear SOME resemblance to a human face. But just because such resemblance occurs does not mean there is any REAL correlation. =46inally, one should realize that the= perception of this Cydonia formation as a face only came about due to the chance occurance of light, shadow, and blurriness of the Viking image. The MGS images, under different lighting conditions, don't reveal a face, but still explain how the Viking images and the perceived face could come about. We should ultimately realize that had there been no Viking probe, but only the MGS, or even had the Viking probe taken the image at a different time of day, NO one would have noticed a face. This certainly negates the theory of =46ace advocates that the =46ace is so= me kind of 'message' to humanity. But to claim, as many people have done, that they have more faith in a low-resolution Viking image than they do in the high-resolution MGS image is absurd. To claim that the =46ace exists or once existed is absurd. One simply can not ignor= e newer, better data simply to perpetuate a myth based upon initially poor data. Any attempt to explain the perpetuation of this myth through conspiracies or whatever else is equally absurd. David Watanabe davew@exosci.com ____________________________________________________ exoScience U=46O=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 http://e= xosci.com/ufo/ **************************************************** To SUBSCRIBE / UNSUBSCRIBE, send email to: davew@exosci.com with either "subscribe ufo" or "unsubscribe ufo" (no quotation marks) in the SUBJECT. **************************************************** To POST, send email for approval to: davew@exosci.com ____________________________________________________ Written in the prosperous city of Calgary, AB Canada exosci.com served using Pair Networks - www.pair.com Copyright (c) 1998 David Watanabe - davew@exosci.com