[quote]Amateur stargazers have discovered an intriguing object jutting out from the surface of Mars. The seemingly perfectly rectangular, upright structure, found in NASA images of the Red Planet, bears a striking resemblance to the monoliths planted on Earth and the moon by aliens in the classic sci-fi film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
The object in question was first spotted several years ago after being photographed by the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA space probe; every so often, it garners renewed interest on the Internet. But is it unnatural — a beacon erected by aliens for mysterious reasons, and even more mysteriously paralleled in the imaginations of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, creators of "2001"? Or is this rock the work of nature?
According to Jonathon Hill, a research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, who processes many of the images taken during NASA's mars missions, the object in question is no more than a roughly rectangular boulder.
The HiRISE camera that photographed it has a resolution of approximately 1 foot (30 centimeters) per pixel — impressive considering the 180-mile (300-kilometer) altitude from which it photographs the Martian surface, but not quite sharp enough to capture the cragginess of a mid-size boulder. "When your resolution is too low to fully resolve an object, it tends to look rectangular because the pixels in the image are squares. Any curve will look like a series of straight lines if you reduce your resolution enough," Hill told Life's Little Mysteries
The location of the boulder at the bottom of a cliff near many other boulders suggests it broke off the cliff and tumbled to its current spot sometime in the distant past, Hill said. Such a perilous location is itself an argument against deliberate placement by aliens: "If I was going to build a monolith somewhere, that's the last place I would put it!" he said. "The debris falling from the cliff would cover it up pretty quickly, on geologic timescales."
Hill added that the height of the boulder is being exaggerated in the photo by a low sun angle. Photographed when the sun was near the horizon, the boulder casts an especially long shadow.
The ufologists aren't necessarily wrong in calling it a monolith — the word simply translates from Latin as "one stone." But this monolith isn't the masonry of Martians. [/quote]
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Don't believe what they say at the end, they're covering something up.
Welp, it's that time again.
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Please be real
please oh please.
Oh [i]shit[/i]
Howdy ho.
the black monolith instructs me to kill animals and eat meat
[QUOTE=GlebGuy;35542579]Please be real
please oh please.[/QUOTE]
you fool, its just the government that is taken over by aliens telling us this so that will pull the heat away from them. :tinfoil:
its a rock
Incoming Stalker thread.
It just looks like a rock, like all the other martian sightings
It's a rock.
It might not even be that rectangular.
[QUOTE=Kondor58;35542978]why are people talking about stalker when this sounds exactly like 2001: a space odyssey, it even looks like it[/QUOTE]
OH MONOLITH, SHOW US YOUR HOLY WAY
Now all we need to do is travel to Mars and touch it.
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Oh great here comes the conspiracy nuts
this just in north korea detonates nukes over south korea, blames starchild
coolest fucking news i've heard in a long time
False alarm, it's just a gigantic dragon dildo. On Mars.
[QUOTE=Kondor58;35542978]why are people talking about stalker when this sounds exactly like 2001: a space odyssey, it even looks like it[/QUOTE]
Your foolish, mortal eyes cannot see the true glory that is hidden beneath that surface that clouds your eyesight.
[B]THIS IS WHAT THE TRUE MONOLITH LOOKS LIKE:[/B]
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Holy hell it's an almost direct allusion to 2001: A Space Odyssey! I place bets that the monolith follows the size ratio of 1:4:9 and we must now make a mission to Saturn.
Unfortunately, it's on Mars and not the Moon.
It's a low lying rock with an exaggerated shadow, nothing to see here.
[QUOTE=usaokay;35543119]If it's actually a Prothean Beacon, then I would hate for my grandchildren to deal with the incoming Reaper threat and a multi-color ending to their existence.[/QUOTE]
ARGH
I was much later than this post :saddowns:
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