This is a post I recently composed for my own message board, All Sci-Fi in our Science Now, Add Fiction Later category. I wanted to share it with you guys, but I just couldn't find a forum on The Classic Horror Film Board that seemed right for it.
I finally decided that it belonged here because it starts with a reference to a Twilight Zone episode but then wandered off into other directions which embodied the spirit of the 1950s.
If this is in the wrong place please tell me and I'll delete and re-post it to the correct forum.
So . . . here we go.
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Everybody knows about the surrealistic face of the woman on Mars.
But here's another Martian face you might not have seen.
At first I thought it was comical. Then I realized it reminded me of something that wasn't funny at all.
Tell me this doesn't send chills up your back. Rod Serling would be so proud.
By the way, when I went hunting for a good picture of the well-known Martian lady's face, I found a site that offered a series of images showing her face under different lighting conditions.
Study the images below carefully and I think you'll spot something much more believable than a trick of the light which suggests a woman's face.
Did you spot it? If not, look again and focus on the border around the "face". It was not artificially created for this series of photos -- it's an actual border with perfectly straight left and right sides and matching curves at the top and bottom.
Ladies and gentlemen, I propose that this border is the real mystery here. How could such geometrically perfect and completely symmetrical features form naturally? The left and right sides are exactly parallel. The curves of the top and bottom are identical.
The face itself is a mile long and 1/2 mile wide. The remarkably symmetrical border is therefore about two miles long and one mile wide. The straight left-and-right sides appear to be "walls" which are angled about 45 degrees from the perpendicular -- all the way around the "face".
The consistency of this angular tilt is just as remarkable as the straightness of the left/right portions and the matching curves of the top/bottom portions.
In conclusion, let me state this: if these exact same geological feature had been discovered in the Sahara desert near the ancient sites of the Egyptian empire, Egyptologists would be claiming with confidence that it was an eroded artifact of that magnificent civilization.
After all, this is what the Sphinx looks like from satellite photos today.
It doesn't exact resemble the way it looks on the ground, does it?
And it sure doesn't look the way it did in 1798 when Napoleon saw it, centuries before it was carefully excavated after being buried by the wind and sand for thousands of years.
And finally, in spite of mankind's efforts to see this remnant of a great civilization, we can only guess that perhaps it looked like this when it was first completed.
Taking all this into account, I think its both arrogant and premature of mankind to dismiss the "Face on Mars" as a mere trick of the light which makes a natural geological formation look like an artifact built by an intelligent civilization.
Even if you don't believe in the evolution of Martian life, we can't rule out the possibility of a Martian colony created by aliens from a distant civilization.
I think those guys paid a visit to Earth, stole a kiss from the lovely Nefertiti, gave her a few technological tips on how to do heavy lifting while building monuments like the Sphinx and the pyramids, and then went back to Mars to do the alien equivalent of carving their initials on the old oak tree.
Frankly folks, if I were the head of NASA, I wouldn't keep shooting down every wild idea like this one. I'd fan the flames of every fanatical concept which captured the public's imagination and encourage them to demand that our government throw large amounts of money at our space program and give them Cart Blanche to fund missions of all kinds!
Note to Barack Obama: If you really want to create jobs, start rebuilding the National Aeronautic and Space Administration. It's the ultimate government work program. Kids are inspired to learn math and science, parents are encouraged to send their children to college, and Americans will agree to tax hikes if they mean the United States can claim bragging rights in mankind's efforts to boldly go where no man has gone before!
If you get the urge to check out All Sci-Fi, here's the link.
I finally decided that it belonged here because it starts with a reference to a Twilight Zone episode but then wandered off into other directions which embodied the spirit of the 1950s.
If this is in the wrong place please tell me and I'll delete and re-post it to the correct forum.
So . . . here we go.
_______________________________________________________________________
Everybody knows about the surrealistic face of the woman on Mars.
But here's another Martian face you might not have seen.
At first I thought it was comical. Then I realized it reminded me of something that wasn't funny at all.
Tell me this doesn't send chills up your back. Rod Serling would be so proud.
By the way, when I went hunting for a good picture of the well-known Martian lady's face, I found a site that offered a series of images showing her face under different lighting conditions.
Study the images below carefully and I think you'll spot something much more believable than a trick of the light which suggests a woman's face.
Did you spot it? If not, look again and focus on the border around the "face". It was not artificially created for this series of photos -- it's an actual border with perfectly straight left and right sides and matching curves at the top and bottom.
Ladies and gentlemen, I propose that this border is the real mystery here. How could such geometrically perfect and completely symmetrical features form naturally? The left and right sides are exactly parallel. The curves of the top and bottom are identical.
The face itself is a mile long and 1/2 mile wide. The remarkably symmetrical border is therefore about two miles long and one mile wide. The straight left-and-right sides appear to be "walls" which are angled about 45 degrees from the perpendicular -- all the way around the "face".
The consistency of this angular tilt is just as remarkable as the straightness of the left/right portions and the matching curves of the top/bottom portions.
In conclusion, let me state this: if these exact same geological feature had been discovered in the Sahara desert near the ancient sites of the Egyptian empire, Egyptologists would be claiming with confidence that it was an eroded artifact of that magnificent civilization.
After all, this is what the Sphinx looks like from satellite photos today.
It doesn't exact resemble the way it looks on the ground, does it?
And it sure doesn't look the way it did in 1798 when Napoleon saw it, centuries before it was carefully excavated after being buried by the wind and sand for thousands of years.
And finally, in spite of mankind's efforts to see this remnant of a great civilization, we can only guess that perhaps it looked like this when it was first completed.
Taking all this into account, I think its both arrogant and premature of mankind to dismiss the "Face on Mars" as a mere trick of the light which makes a natural geological formation look like an artifact built by an intelligent civilization.
Even if you don't believe in the evolution of Martian life, we can't rule out the possibility of a Martian colony created by aliens from a distant civilization.
I think those guys paid a visit to Earth, stole a kiss from the lovely Nefertiti, gave her a few technological tips on how to do heavy lifting while building monuments like the Sphinx and the pyramids, and then went back to Mars to do the alien equivalent of carving their initials on the old oak tree.
Frankly folks, if I were the head of NASA, I wouldn't keep shooting down every wild idea like this one. I'd fan the flames of every fanatical concept which captured the public's imagination and encourage them to demand that our government throw large amounts of money at our space program and give them Cart Blanche to fund missions of all kinds!
Note to Barack Obama: If you really want to create jobs, start rebuilding the National Aeronautic and Space Administration. It's the ultimate government work program. Kids are inspired to learn math and science, parents are encouraged to send their children to college, and Americans will agree to tax hikes if they mean the United States can claim bragging rights in mankind's efforts to boldly go where no man has gone before!
If you get the urge to check out All Sci-Fi, here's the link.
