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Cydonia Updates
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The Viking probe of 1976 sent back images of a region of Mars called
Cydonia, which included the familiar "Face on Mars" as well as images
of pyramids and other seemingly artificial structures, all megalithic
in nature and apparently intended to be seen from off-planet.

These images also included a gigantic and seemingly five-sided
pyramid:

Images returned from the global surveilance device in orbit around
Mars the last several years have included an image of the main pyramid
in the ring of pyramids to the left of the face which should have
immediately ended all controversy over the question of artificiality:

To me at least, the pyramid is four sided and the four triangular
sides are clear enough, and I've marked them with green lines. The
other part of the image which I believe I'm seeing amounts to some
sort of an enclosed corridor or causeway leading out from one corner
of the pyramid, and then two funny and nearly rectangular features at
the end of that causeway or whatever it is, which may be doors or some
sort of adjunct buildings or something. There also seems to be a line
going from the Eastern corner of the pyramid to the two doors or
whatever, which I've marked with a blue line, but I suspect that's
just an edge of sand being blown up into a sort of an apron abutting
the pyramid, and that the hollow between the pyramid and the corridor
would naturally trap sand. In particular, if you didn't look at the
whole thing closely enough, the line (blue) from the Eastern corner to
the two doors might cause you to think that the whole structure was
irregular enough to be a natural formation but, again, a closer look
seems to me to forbid that.

Nonetheless, there was little or no mention whatsoever in the press of
this new pyramid image, and this was largely because press coverage
centered around the new image of the face which NASA released:

This image was said to prove the entire controversy regarding Cydonia
to be a bunch of buncombe, and to prove that the structures at Cydonia
all to be natural geological formations.

More recently, Dr. Tom Van Flandern, a former director of celestial
mechanics at the Naval Abservatory, and others have noted that the
image which NASA and JPL released, aside from being a worst possible
case in terms of viewing angle and lighting, had actually been
"cleaned up" or something like that via the use of a high-pass filter
which is a standard image processing device for removing detail. Van
Flandern notes that the basic help function for Adobe's Photo Shop
product notes:

High Pass Filter: Retains edge details where sharp color transitions occur
and suppresses the rest of the image. The filter removes low-frequency detail
in an image. Useful for extracting line-art and large black-and-white areas
from scanned images.

Van Flandern notes that, as to JPL's motives in using such a filter
device on this particular image and then handing it to the public, "we
are left with an unhappy choice between dishonesty and incompetence."

When we consider that the raw image looks like:

and that the same image with minimal computer enhancement, which does
not add any information looks like:

All of that is bad enough, i.e. it might convince people that NASA and
JPL told a big, stupid lie to the American people and to the world.
But it's getting worse; consider the new and more direct overhead
image of the face which NASA released during May of 2001.

[1][face_e03-824_proc_i.jpg] 

Click Image Above for Full Size NASA Images

Several things are clear. First and most obvious is that anybody still
trying to claim that this thing is a mesa or any other kind of natural
formation is dillusional. I notice several things, which I have
indicated in the marked-up image below

First is that there is only one possible way to build such a thing,
i.e. to pile up stones into the rough shape you need, large stones on
the bottom and then progressively smaller ones, and then put some sort
of a hard facing over the entire thing. You can see how this has been
done in the image. On the left side from which wind and sand come, the
facing is almost entirely eroded and, even where the underlying stone
shows, everything has been worn smooth. On the right side, we can see
that part of the facing remains, much of it having fallen off to the
side in heaps. We can see the cutout in the facing for the left eye
which I have noted, and we can see where the facing fell and broke
away from the nose, which is what you would expect. We can also see
the rough stones of the nose area, which have not all been worn
smooth.

Second is that the megalith is heavily damaged, and has suffered more
than one kind of damage. My guess is that the entire rock plate on
which the megalith sits was picked up and slammed down, and that the
megalith was deformed in the process. You can see the places where the
hard casement has been pulled apart on the right side. The megalith
has been compressed along the axis from lower left to upper right
which I have marked with the blue line, and stretched along the other
axis from lower right to upper left. The angle A between the line of
the headdress on the left side and the line along the top is thus less
than the original 90 degrees. The line through the center of the face
has been deformed from the original straight line to the curved line
which I have drawn. The basic shape of the mouth is still there,
albeit moved to the left as I have noted. You can see where the outer
casing has broken away from part of the outline of the mouth on the
right.

You can see the ridge along the eyebrows as I have noted, you can see
the indentation for the right eye and the outline of the left eye cut
into the facing and still in reasonably good shape. You can see the
rise for the nose as well as the area where the casing broke away from
the nose on the right, and part of the remains of nostrils, and you
can see the basic lines of the mouth.

Unless of course you're _STUPID_
like the feebs at NASA who're still working triple shifts trying to
convince the world this thing is a mesa. In that kind of case, no
amount of technology will help. There has never been a cure for
stupidity, and there will never be one.

A short while ago, Dr. Van Flandern and other associates gave a
presentation at the National Press Club which may be viewed at
[2]Metaresearch.

Information has been coming in for two or three years now from the
device presently over Mars. Massive evidence of Mars having been
inhabited fairly recently has been accumulating. As Metaresearch and
other www sites dealing with the subject note, this includes evidence
of settlements:

[3][complex.jpg] 

Click on image for full NASA image. Note the terracing, and the rows
of structures which are heavily weathered to the upper right of the
image but which retain their rectangular corners on the lower left
(leeward) side.

Other human faces have been found carved in the surface, e.g.:

Numerous other things intended to be viewed from off-planet have been
documented at [4]Metaresearch, [5]Cydonia Files, and other sites.

What then drives the basic instinct of NASA and JPL to bury this
story? One possible motive which has been suggested involves the
division of funding between manned and unmanned space missions at NASA
and JPL. But, more realistically, the major problem which the Cydonia
findings presents to the people in these agencies is one of basic
scientific paradigms. Nobody could build all of this stuff on this
kind of a megalithic scale with space-suits on; the planet has to be
habitable for Cydonia to get built. This is a huge problem, in that it
would require a totally different basic theory of the history of our
solar system from the one which the scientists have. There is simply
no way, given the standard paradigm, in which Mars could have ever
been habitable. It would always have been too cold, and it would never
have had the gravity necessary to hold a livable atmosphere, assuming
that gravity is the only thing which ever holds atmosphere to planets.

The standard scientific axiomatic scheme including the basic doctrine
of uniformitarianism, evolution etc. etc. does not allow for
solar-system-wide catastrophes within the age of man, nonetheless,
that is precisely what we have here. Those newer face images are
definitely modern people and not early hominids. Nothing involving
modern people here, on Mars, or anywhere else figures to be millions
of years gone by, and nothing capable of destroying the planet next to
us and making a dead world of it would have gone unnoticed by our
ancestors.

What we have here is another case of junk science, i.e. the theory of
evolution and the doctrine of uniformity, destroying research and
logical thinking amongst scientists. The science pages of our journals
are filled by descriptions of NASA projects to search for microbes on
Mars while studiously ignoring major evidence that they have found a
city there, as if germs were important, and cities were not.

References

1. http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/extended_may2001/face/index.html
2. http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/cydonia/asom/artifact_html/default.htm
3. http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/jpegmaps/M08/M0803500.jpg
4. http://www.metaresearch.org/
5. http://cydoniafiles.com/