A white spot a picture from Mars have provided a bit of fuel for conspirationists. Nice response though.
www.marsanomalyresearch.com
When asked about it by a Swedish paper Peter Smith of NASA's Phoenix project responded to the question...
"To those who choose to belive that a group of professional scientists would spend their time falsifying data and plot conspiracies to misslead stupid people, that we have never met or have the least intrest in, to them I want to say that the reserarch we carry out is a thousand times more real and intresting that the paranoid fantasies discussed on the site you sent a link to." (Translation by me.)
Source:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=148&a=778698
White spot on Mars picture!
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Conspirationists are funny people. Best of all, they don't see they're batshit crazy. I actually knew about this spot from a forum I read sometimes, where of course it was intepreted as everything from a Martian vehicle to a hastily airbrushed anomaly which would PROVE THERE IS LIFE ON MARS OMG NASA DOESN'T WANT US TO KNOW!!!!
These are the same kind of people who claim that the Apollo missions were faked because there is no way the astronauts would survive a trip through the Van Allen belts. How do they know? Well, they just do, because the VA belts are deadly. And when Dr. Van Allen himself tells then they're a bunch of idiots, he's a paid NASA flunky and he's just saying that so that the landings will remain fake.
I expected them to start "analyzing" Phoenix photos pixel by pixel in desperate search for anomalies for some time now. Heh.
These are the same kind of people who claim that the Apollo missions were faked because there is no way the astronauts would survive a trip through the Van Allen belts. How do they know? Well, they just do, because the VA belts are deadly. And when Dr. Van Allen himself tells then they're a bunch of idiots, he's a paid NASA flunky and he's just saying that so that the landings will remain fake.
I expected them to start "analyzing" Phoenix photos pixel by pixel in desperate search for anomalies for some time now. Heh.
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In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
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Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around!
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I like how he uses JPEG compression artefacts as evidence of tampering with an image, and then decides that the areas with the least artefacts must be from the original. He must think that if you re-compress a JPEG image, it will get increasingly less artefacts. He must also think that NASA use MSPaint to remove aliens/sets from their images. Maybe he just doesn't think at all.
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