reply@grouponly.com wrote:

On 21 Dec 2005 13:26:18 -0800, "tomcat" <jlavine@bellsouth.net> wrote:

I believe, based on the JPL photographs coming from Spirit Rover, that
there is life on Mars.  I have done enlargements, erased shadows using
brightness/contrast, and cropped the results.

Here is my blog with some of the pictures:

http://stardot.blogspot.com/

Judge for yourself.  Nothing has been drawn in or faked in any way.


tomcat

        Uhhmm . What are you seeing ? I see landscape.

Could there be life (or it's fossil remanants) on Mars ? Sure.
I've come to the conclusion that whereever life can exist, it will exist.
I really think that's a no-brainer.  If you're seeing another Richard
Hoagland- type "ruin" I am not so convinced. I am open to a lot of
ideas including the Ancient Astronaut theory, but I think that Hoagland
is basically playing Darts. That is, if we assume ET reality and that
some form of contact didn't just pop-up, then if you keep labelling
every interesting feature as a "ruin" or a "base" than sooner or later
you'll be right.

I don't doubt that many others here are MUCH more skeptical than I am
about such things. If you're going to post here you'll need to make a
much better case than you have so far or you'll be ignored.

Bottom line ? If you're looking for ANY off-world life than Mars is as good a
place as any. If it's ET you're looking for than you can look on Mars and
maybe you'll be lucky but your best bet is to do what we already know
how to do: Go someplace we haven't been before and look for ourselves.
That means Interstellar. That means fusion rockets or better ( which is?).
That requires Courage and Commitment :  Two qualities currently lacking
in Space Exploration.

You shouldn't expect the pictures to be closeups with the same clarity
that people snapshots have here on Earth.  The pictures I have posted
on the Star Dot Blog are massive enlargements of small sections of the
JPL Spirit Rover's photos.  Such enlargements create a certain amount
of blur.  Also, the siginificant features are often still distant
compared with an oridinary snapshot.

To best see what is on these photos I present you should download the
original JPL photos and do your own enlargements.  This is because the
Star Dot Blog can only accept small JPEG pictures with only a fraction
of the resolution that was originally obtained from the JPL photos.

Shadows have to be erased and brightness/contrast on most picture
software can do that easily.

I still find it difficult to believe that you are unable to discern the
animals and 'people' in the photographs.  Perhaps I see them more
easily because I have seen 10 megabyte pictures and not just the little
20 kilobyte ones.

Look closely.  Look at those pictures that show higher resolution
because they were closer to the Spirit Rover to begin with.


tomcat