![]() The discussion of global geoglyphs ranges from the mundane to the nonsensical, and most of the show’s usual talking heads, including Nick Pope and Hugh Newman, try to claim that what they call geoglyphs (some of which are actually earthworks) were intended to communicate with space aliens who were looking at Earth from other galaxies. This leads to yet another discussion of the Nazca Lines, a subject that has appeared on Ancient Aliens with depressing regularity since the show debuted a decade ago. The second segment tries to make an argument by analogy, asking viewers to assume that the existence of geoglyphs elsewhere on Earth proves that the Guardian is an artificial geoglyph. I can’t help but think that’s because the Guardian’s Wikipedia page refers to apophenia. ![]() The show had an expert use computer simulations to try to argue that the formation was intentionally created, and it’s interesting that the show refers to skeptical views of the Guardian as an optical illusion with the word “apophenia” (seeing patterns that don’t exist) instead of “pareidolia” (seeing familiar patterns in vague, abstract, or natural patterns). The show presents these mutually exclusive ideas as though they were harmonious. Henry says that humans could not have made a geoglyph on their own and needed aliens to do it for them, while Tsoukalos differs and says that First Nations people in Alberta carved it themselves because they were trying to signal space aliens. William Henry and Giorgio Tsoukalos claim that only space aliens could provide the answer. For no good reason, they use part of the time to give us a history of the carving of Mount Rushmore, which is a mountain carved from stone, while the Badlands Guardian is made from soil and clay. It’s not wholly inappropriate, though, since Serling was an ancient astronaut believer who hosted In Search of Ancient Astronauts, the ancestral TV special that eventually gave rise to Ancient Aliens, both being adaptations of Chariots of the Gods.Īnyway, the first segment tries to make the case that the Badlands Guardian is an intentional carving and not a natural formation, and David Childress shows up to tell us that archaeologists are “often mistaken” about what is artificial and what is natural. Of the seven good images, the lighting and time at which two pairs of images were taken are so close as to reduce the number to five distinct images.īy combining data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on the Mars Express probe and the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on board NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor it has been possible to create a three-dimensional representation of the “ Face on Mars“.I still hate the new opening sequence, especially its invocation of the Twilight Zone by using “There is a door…” and imagery recalling Rod Serling’s title sequence. The other eleven images have resolutions that are worse than 550 m/pixel (1800 ft/pixel) and are of limited use for studying surface features. Eighteen images of the Cydonia region were taken by the orbiters, of which seven have resolutions better than 250 m/pixel (820 ft/pixel). It was first imaged in detail by the Viking 1 and Viking 2 orbiters. Cydonia (region of Face on Mars)Ĭydonia is a region on the planet Mars that has attracted everyone. This face is pretty uncanny and vastly superior to that alledged “ face on mars”. ![]() ![]() It has a screen name ‘ Super Granny‘ on Google Earth. Its Location is in Alberta, Canada with Latitude & Longitude: 50.010262, -110.113747 and can only be seen from an ariel view or on google earth. The ‘ head‘ may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall.Īlthough the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave - that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion and it’s age is estimated to be the in hundreds of years at a minimum. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. Head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. ![]()
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