Structure on Mars?

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Yahoo article including screen grab from a video he has apparently removed.

MSN video and interview with the guy.

If you're wondering and don't want to read the articles, the guy has images of what looks like a structure on Mars. The official denial is that it's light from the sun.
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Where the hell is the image?
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This is the location: http://www.google.com/mars....visible

But nothing visible there on mars.google.com. Apparently you can only see it on the downloaded Google Earth mars thingy.
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I found it pretty funny because when I saw the story yesterday, the clip had been removed and the MSN video wasn't working. I thought: "Fire up the conspiracy theories."

By the way, the original image was an orange background (I believe), so I expect TPR's gray background image of the same spot isn't going to help matters.
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has a rather impressive size - more than 700 feet long and 150 wide, looks like a cylinder or a member of the cylinders
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It's also apparently not capable of casting a shadow. Lends some credence to the theory that it's a flaw in the photo due to a gamma ray, or whatever.
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I'm just going to assume those two robots we left up there became self aware, faked their death, and are secretly building that base to exact their revenge upon us.
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I'm just going to assume those two robots we left up there became self aware, faked their death, and are secretly building that base to exact their revenge upon us.


I think you just rebooted the Transformers series.
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That's not a goddamn bio-house or whatever that Fox Mulder wanna be called it. That's an artifact of the obscenely shitty conditions we have for shooting photos with some limited technology.
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Malcolm wrote:That's not a goddamn bio-house or whatever that Fox Mulder wanna be called it. That's an artifact of the obscenely shitty conditions we have for shooting photos with some limited technology.
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