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Life on Mars 'discoverer' wants NatGeo r-e-s-p-e-c-t (& maybe a Mr. Potato Head)
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In what has to be a cosmic publicity stunt, lawyer and Mars Anomaly Research Society founder Andrew D. Basiago wants the National Geographic to publish his claims of finding life on Mars. An older Spirit Mars Rover photo is, he declared, " .. the most significant photograph ever taken by human beings from Earth." His letter--and PR release-- jumped the shark with his "discovery" that the NASA photo shows "a cosmic treasure trove of pictographic evidence of life on Mars, including humanoid beings, animal species, carved statues, and built structures."
"I am writing to inform the National Geographic Society that I have discovered life on Mars," Basiago said. Apparently, he missed the memo that, according to alien fans, Bigfoot has already been found on Mars. Despite the fever pitch of rumors about NASA suppressing the vital knowledge of life on Mars (note: NASA published the photograph, folks), Basiago now says that he's the armchair explorer who found life, and the artifacts of a whole civilization, on the red planet.
But wait! There's more, as they say on those late-night TV ads. Basiago's claims roam far afield from the original Bigfoot excitement. His photo enlargements revealed aliens that " have bulbous heads and elongated bodies, like the extraterrestrials described in alien contact accounts."
Not only that, he said he was "... astonished by what I found....There, on the Red Planet, were beings in blue bodysuits and the abstract artwork of a Martian civilization. I was looking at the first evidence of life beyond Earth!"
Bulbuous head? Sounds like Mr. Potato Head to me. And those blue bodysuits? Whoaaaa Nellie!
Holy rock 'n roll! He may not yet realize it, but we've found Elvis! As this photographic evidence clearly shows, any Martians running around in blue bodysuits have met The King. Not only that, but while jammin' with some funky kind of dinosaurs, the boys in the band have encountered these amazing beings:
Some have two arms and legs like human beings, while others have multiple appendages and segmented or larval bodies, as if they are human-insect hybrids.
In one part of the photograph, a bizarre array of statues of different human and animal heads litters Tsiolkovski Ridge. In another, humanoid beings can be seen sitting among a group of rocks centered around a grotesque humanoid skull.
Many of the animals that appear in the NASA photo resemble the frogs, lizards, serpents, and tortoises of Earth. Others resemble the extinct reptile species known as plesiosaurs, which had long necks like snakes and round bodies like turtles.
There is evidence of camouflage in some of the species. One is transparent in form.
What is this? Elvis meets Goth skulls meets dinosaurs meets snakes meets the ghosts of Mars? Is this the six degrees of weird, or what?
Luckily for common sense, Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society tidily dispatches any notion that Bigfoot is well, Bigfoot and instead is:
.....an unusually good example of an optical illusion in an image from Mars; I think pretty much any person would see a humanoid shape in this photo. This is an example of pareidolia, the human propensity to see patterns in random shapes.
So, no Bigfoot? But what about aliens related to Mr. Potato Head, Elvis, and even octopi-like creatures with over-sized heads, as Basiago's varied claims may indicate?
Let's just put it this way. So far, there's been no news of an exclusive contract with National Geographic to discuss this newly-wrought (or overwrought) finding of life on Mars.
Image credit: Mr. Potato Head on the moon comes from the Mr. Potato Head Collector's Page.
Image credit: The totally fab Elvis jumpsuit is courtesy of Ralph's Figure Clothing.
Image credit: The enlarged section of the Spirit composite photo is based on the original NASA photo.
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