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From: "David Watanabe" <davew@exosci.com>
Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 17:48:05 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 17:48:05 -0400
Subject: eSufo - MGS Commentary/New images

exoScience UFO * 5/1/98 * exosci.com/ufo

* NEW CYDONIA IMAGES POSTED

The images from the 3rd round of MGS Cydonia imaging are
available. They are also of the Cydonia "City Square", and focus
primarily on a structure sometimes referred to as the "Star", as
it seemed to be a star-shaped pyramid.  Of course, check it out
at our site:
   http://exosci.com/probes/mgs/


* CYDONIA COMMENTARY

Many people have been expecting some kind of commentary from me
about the new Cydonia images.  Indeed, I intended to write
something, but have delayed such commentary for quite some time,
partially due to the prospect of new Cydonia images (the final
one just being published), but also because I was in the process
of changing cities (I am now back in Calgary, AB) leaving me
computerless and disoriented (wandering the world without aim or
purpose!) for several days.

Meaningless personal banter aside, I think all can agree that the
images returned by MGS show no signs of artificiality.  These
formations are, as far as we can tell through visual observation,
quite natural.  Nevertheless, this is more complicated than it
seems.

Many people have speculated that the formations are in fact
artificial, but have lost their 'edge' through erosion.  They
substantiate this claim by showing how features on the Face match
the features of a human face.  However, this logic is not sound. 
Firstly , the features of the Face are not symmetrical.  Thus,
they can not possibly be an artificial creation of a 'face'.
Secondly, the Face would never have been noticed if it did not
bear SOME resemblance to a human face.  But just because such
resemblance occurs does not mean there is any REAL correlation. 
Finally, one should realize that the perception of this Cydonia
formation as a face only came about due to the chance occurance
of light, shadow, and blurriness of the Viking image.  The MGS
images, under different lighting conditions, don't reveal a face,
but still explain how the Viking images and the perceived face
could come about. 

We should ultimately realize that had there been no Viking probe,
but only the MGS, or even had the Viking probe taken the image at
a different time of day, NO one would have noticed a face.  This
certainly negates the theory of Face advocates that the Face is
some kind of 'message' to humanity.  But to claim, as many people
have done, that they have more faith in a low-resolution Viking
image than they do in the high-resolution MGS image is absurd. 
To claim that the Face exists or once existed is absurd.  One
simply can not ignore newer, better data simply to perpetuate a
myth based upon initially poor data.  Any attempt to explain the
perpetuation of this myth through conspiracies or whatever else
is equally absurd.

 David Watanabe
 davew@exosci.com

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