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From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 10:40:23 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 02:44:34 -0400
Subject: Re: Hoagland's Rebuttal of Mars Face Pic

>Subject: UFO UpDate: Hoagland's Rebuttal of Mars Face Pic
>From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
>Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 01:21:47 -0400
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>

>> From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
>> To: updates@globalserve.net
>> Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:42:40 +0200
>> Subject: Fwd: Hoagland's Rebuttal of Cydonia Pic

>> Received via "alt.alien.research" April 7 at 10.18 local time
>>(GMT + 1 hour).

>> Two thirds of the data is missing!! Using a histogram, both
>> Richard Hoagland and Keith Rowland have determined that two
>> thirds of the data on the RAW image of Cydonia is missing! The
>> histogram shows that on a gray scale of a possible 256 shades of
>> gray, there is only 70-80 shades of gray on the image-two thirds
>> is missing!! Hoagland calls the picture CRAP and useless. Any
>> pictures made from the raw image are also missing two thirds of
>> the data. In simple terms, this means two thirds of the detail
>> are missing.

>> The question now is WHY.


>Because the image has low contrast. Jeez.

>------
>Mark Cashman, creator of The Temporal Doorway at

Yeah.  I wondered how many would notice that Hoagland is
spouting absolute and utter nonsense.

So the contrast is low.  So effing what!!!

Damn, if these people had been in my basic photography course
when I was still teaching, they would all have flunked!

Rather than "curioser and curioser" this just gets sillier
and sillier.

Bob