Originally posted by Quackmaster
I stated the method required to go from seeing that picture to making a statement that it proved an ancient civilization on Mars required a comical level of guess work and illogical thought.
Yet there are so many of you on here that see a blurry orange pic on the internet and start doing back flips screaming life on Mars. I guess the majoirty of belief in a topic is based on the simple fact you just want to believe something.
So Quack, what constitutes proof to you are the casinos of Las Vegas. You'd want to see something like this on Mars otherwise as you say, it requires a comical level of guesswork that it could be the ruins of an ancient civilization. Not quite right. Now have a look at this pic below. What do you think it is?
Australian archaeologists have uncovered the remains of ancient human settlements in Syria.
A team of researchers from the Australian National University have used declassified US spy satellite images from the 1960s to help them find the location of the ruins.
Archaeologist Mandy Mottram says the remains of pottery factories, tombs and even an ancient basilica were found.
"You can pinpoint the sites using the satellite images quite simply because you see anomalies in the landscape," she said.
"You can't go, 'Oh yes looking at the photograph, I know what this is going to be', you don't know that until you go there, but you can get a pretty fair idea that there's a site of some kind there."
Ms Mottram says the remains of an ancient basilica were among the finds.
Ancient human settlements in Syria? Wow! These guys, according to your warped logic must be off their rockers or more aptly, lost their marbles! Does that look like there was an ancient civilization there?
As what you stressed, it requires a degree of lunacy to imagine that! But heck! These ARE the ruins of an ancient city - Syria!
So back off some. It'll do your blood pressure some good!!
Cheers!!
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