You can see odd "things" on the terraserver, but when you see them in
person, they don't look all that strange. What is more annoying, you
can log the location of interesting things with a GPS, such as plane
crashes, then look at them with the terraserver. Yeah, the spot does
look a bit different once you know the area isn't natural, but to spot
it on the terraserver first would be hard to do. There are plenty of
spots on the terraserver that look different because the rock strata
changed, or there is a rocky outcropping with a shadow, etc.


reply@grouponly.com wrote:

On 22 Dec 2005 13:33:25 -0800, "tomcat" <jlavine@bellsouth.net> wrote:

If the Lock Ness Monster bit you would that be "rocks and dirt" too?  I
trust that most people are capable of 20/20 vision even if they require
glasses.  Those people will 'see' what the pictures have to offer.

Once again, I emphasize that only resizing (picture enlargement),
contrast/brightening (to erase shadows), and cropping (trimming away
excess picture with nothing to show), has been done on these pictures.
Nothing has been drawn in or altered other than has been described
above.

The Star Dot Blog where I posted the pictures is at:

http://stardot.blogspot.com/

For anyone who happens to read this, don't automatically assume it's
all rocks and dirt.  Those pictures, in my opinion, are showing living
creatures and buildings.


tomcat

 Hey,  I'm open to all kinds of things. Let's take your pic labelled, "Spirit Sol 549"
on the web-site. I see a conglomerate of various sized angular rocks - balsaltic
perhaps? embedded ( or perhaps uncovered by wind?) in sandy "soil" to various
degrees. The center of the pic is on the apparent left lower leading edge of the
largest visible rock.

If I were to speculate without fear I'd guess this to be a picture of a mound of
fractured, but not heavily weather-worn, igneous or metamorphic rock fragments
(possibly impact debris?) that is slowly weathering out of the sand - or just as likely -
slowly being covered by same. I am not a geologist, but I have over 20 pounds
of sedimentary fossils of Mid-Devonian age all found by moi and in some cases
from sites that I found on my own. I see no animals or people. I see no artifacts.
There is a smaller more interesting piece in the extreme left lower part of the pic
with rod-like markings that might be worth a 2nd look. But nothing that would
get me excited if it were laying around a known site on earth.

What do you see ? Be specific, please.

                                            Andrew