It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Ear-Responsible
Did somebody say greenery???
Probly explains this thread
Originally posted by Lone12
reply to post by robbystarbuck
..this is the sweetest post i ve read in a while
thanks
I'd like you to explain the all black shape on that rock.... Can you? Beak on far right, two thin black lines under the body (legs), tail formation on fair left.
Originally posted by FormerSkeptic
Welcome to this crazy forum, Robby!
As you've no doubt discovered, you get a bunch of wacko slappo comments any which way you come.
And my opinion? I think visual analysis of photography, especially by laymen, is one of the LEAST reliable paths to knowledge and truth. It gets overanalyzed way too easily. Literally anything can look like a bird or face or breasts or penis or...
The idea of "birds on Mars" is in itself implausible. That's where I would have to start. Then same for somebody lounging on a rock, perfect balls rolling along, etc. So, no, those spots do not look like a bird, a translucent body, or a perfect sphere to me.
Color rendition is also completely relative. Any tweak of the imaging signal and the photo can show purple spots or pink shades or brown shadows, etc.
I consider still imagery only one of the many interesting aspects of alien investigation. It's fun but very limited.
Originally posted by Argyll
reply to post by robbystarbuck
I'd like you to explain the all black shape on that rock.... Can you? Beak on far right, two thin black lines under the body (legs), tail formation on fair left.
Think about it logically for a moment.......we absolutely know that shadows exist and can, given the right lighting conditions, and suitable solid objects.....like rocks...... form interesting shadows, ever woken up to see that old woman crouching in the corner of your bedroom only to discover on closer inspection that it's your dressing gown draped over a chair?
Conversely we have absolutely no evidence, or proof (as you seem to think these images are) of any birds living on Mars.....and the images you have posted in no way refute that.......what you are seeing is shadows and your imagination is filling in the blanks.
Originally posted by robbystarbuck
...
Thanks for the reply. Your name is "former skeptic" so what piece or pieces of evidence changed your mind one way or the other?
Originally posted by Zarniwoop
I think the standard for Martian animal spotting has been previously set with the squirrel and the cockatiel.
Unless they are as good as these rocks, they probably should not be posted.
Originally posted by FormerSkeptic
Originally posted by robbystarbuck
...
Thanks for the reply. Your name is "former skeptic" so what piece or pieces of evidence changed your mind one way or the other?
That's a common question asked of me. Of course it's not an easy or simple answer. It's all the good reports, evidence, testimonials, etc. combined over many years. The tipping point was nothing spectacular either, but a realization that I had a very cohesive theory.
My handle here alone should be very revealing — there's a lot that we simply have to BELIEVE, but it shouldn't be blind faith either. Nearly all my replies and comments explains it in some way.
What's the cockatiel reference i've never seen that?