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Manmade structure on Mars or natural phenomena??

Natural or manmade??

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Desert Storm

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What do you guys think, doorway to a mountain cave or natural phenomena??

Photo was taken from NASA's mars rover. Direct link: https://mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1064629/?site=msl

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Thank the heavens that all voters have gotten it right so far! This question has 3 possible answers to choose from:
(y). The correct, obvious, sensible option.
😑. The lazy option
🤪. The "History Channel option"(ie. the dumb one).

Had there been 20+ votes cast, I would've semi-expected to see at least 1 lazy answer, possibly even a dumb one. Thank you History Channel for completely betraying your original viewers over the past 10-15 years, thereafter seeking to dumb down society, by broadcasting your stupefaction beam into our homes!
 
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Inside the door, there's a room with a little Martian handprint. If you push it, you can terraform Mars completely in a few minutes. Push the button quickly, or Arnold Schwarzenegger's eyes might pop out.
 
Helix said:
Inside the door, there's a room with a little Martian handprint. If you push it, you can terraform Mars completely in a few minutes. Push the button quickly, or Arnold Schwarzenegger's eyes might pop out.
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I've always loved that scene where Arnold and his (hot)supporting actress were dumped onto the Martian desert, where they experienced the ridiculously exaggerated, but hilarious effects of the Martian atmosphere. But lucky for them, planet-wide terraforming only requires about 30 seconds for the empty atmosphere to be completely filled with a conveniently Earth-like mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, CO2 and argon!

Even more convenient, their disfigured faces and exploding eyeballs were flawlessly repaired by the new atmosphere! It all tracks with physics and planetary science....
 
There is no "door" or "room". In this enhanced view you can see it ends in a "V" cut, with the top sloping down and the sides inward. It is a oddball event, probably "rock" formations caving out, maybe the pieces in the foreground are part.. If you look at the left side of the picture you can see faint facture lines forming a "V" and possibly doing the same thing at some time.

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ModerationNow! said:
I've always loved that scene where Arnold and his (hot)supporting actress were dumped onto the Martian desert, where they experienced the ridiculously exaggerated, but hilarious effects of the Martian atmosphere. But lucky for them, planet-wide terraforming only requires about 30 seconds for the empty atmosphere to be completely filled with a conveniently Earth-like mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, CO2 and argon!

Even more convenient, their disfigured faces and exploding eyeballs were flawlessly repaired by the new atmosphere! It all tracks with physics and planetary science....
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It was certainly a close call for them.
 
I have no idea what is in question. Didn't look at the OP. But I chose "MANMADE" because.
 
I remember the set from this episode of Star Trek. I think it’s the one where Kirk got into a fist fight and then had something pithy to say.
 
ModerationNow! said:
I've always loved that scene where Arnold and his (hot)supporting actress were dumped onto the Martian desert, where they experienced the ridiculously exaggerated, but hilarious effects of the Martian atmosphere. But lucky for them, planet-wide terraforming only requires about 30 seconds for the empty atmosphere to be completely filled with a conveniently Earth-like mixture of oxygen, nitrogen, CO2 and argon!

Even more convenient, their disfigured faces and exploding eyeballs were flawlessly repaired by the new atmosphere! It all tracks with physics and planetary science....
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I seem to recall it was supposed to up in the air. On the one hand, Quaid is shown having dreams about Mars and a woman before going to the memory implant place, so as to suggest that he really is as depicted throughout the movie: a secret agent who'd altered his memory to think he's a construction worker. On the other hand, if you had memories implanted you'd never be able to tell what was implanted and what was there before, so the aforementioned memories don't tip the scale. The rest of the movie is filled with such contradictions.

I always took the absurdity of the ending (nevermind the rest of it) to put its finger down on the "it's all part of the implanted memory and he's just a construction worker, in the machine, and it never malfunctioned" side of the scale. It wasn't just some silly director's excess.
 
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Sabre said:
see post #9 above
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Why?

There is no proof for me that post #9 above was man made.

See post #11 above.

I claim post #11 was man made, but am I really a man?
 
LouC said:
Why?

There is no proof that post #9 above was man made.
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Well, post #9 was man made, I made it. Now as to the image, it is showing that the "cave" in the image was NOT man made but a natural occurrence. Did you even look at the post and read what was said or just assume what was there?
 
Sabre said:
There is no "door" or "room". In this enhanced view you can see it ends in a "V" cut, with the top sloping down and the sides inward. It is a oddball event, probably "rock" formations caving out, maybe the pieces in the foreground are part.. If you look at the left side of the picture you can see faint facture lines forming a "V" and possibly doing the same thing at some time.

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No offence, but that actually looks more like a cave than the original pic.

And I'm not saying its a manmade cave, I'm just saying it looks like a cave
 
Desert Storm said:
No offence, but that actually looks more like a cave than the original pic.

And I'm not saying its a manmade cave, I'm just saying it looks like a cave
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Take a closer look, the top slopes down to the bottom and the sides slope in closing the gap. It's not a cave, it goes a very short distance before top, sides and bottom join. Lots of things form in nature that resemble man made things, this is just another.
 
No cave, just clever gotya picture:

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told the AP that the image being circulated is a “very, very, very zoomed in shot” of a naturally formed rock crevice.
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the image of the crevice on May 7. Good said that NASA scientists overseeing the rover estimate the opening is 12 inches (30 centimeters) tall and 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. “You can see all kinds of cracks and fractures in the surrounding area,” Good wrote in an email. “There are linear fractures throughout this outcrop, and this is a location where several linear fractures happen to intersect.”
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www.yahoo.com

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. CLAIM: NASA’s Mars rover has captured images of a doorway cut into a mountainside of the red planet, suggesting the presence of extraterrestrial life. THE FACTS: Social media users shared a magnified version of the...
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Social media users shared a magnified version of the image, which made it appear the formation was much larger than its actual dimensions. NASA officials and Mars experts say the curious formation is nothing more than a narrow, naturally-occurring crevice in the rocky, barren terrain. Andrew Good, a spokesman for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, told the AP that the image being circulated is a “very, very, very zoomed in shot” of a naturally formed rock crevice.
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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A photo identified as showing a “doorway” cut into a mountainside on Mars actually captures a tiny crevice in the rocky, barren terrain.
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