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Monolith Found on Mars

post #1 of 24
8/6/09 at 8:03am
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It was only a matter of time... [cue Thus Spake Zarathustra] 

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An image of what appears to be a mysterious rocky monument on Mars has excited space junkies around the world.

The 'monolith', was snapped from 165miles away using a special high resolution camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

After being published on the website Lunar Explorer Italia, it set tongues wagging with space buffs questioning whether there was once life on the Red Planet.

The image seems to resemble the black monolith that appears during key moments of man's evolution in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

'Is it possible that there used to be an ancient civilization on Mars?' former Montreal radio presenter David Tyler asked on his blog.

'Is it possible that NASA already knows the answer? Could this be the final straw for disclosure?'

Mars Monolith

2001 Monolith
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1204254/Has-mystery-Mars-Monolith-solved.html
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post #2 of 24
8/6/09 at 8:15am
Oh my!  First the face, now this! 

Did the robot things (as they are technically known as) they sent up there find any organic material that hinted of life?  I didn't think they did.
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post #3 of 24
8/6/09 at 8:45am
It is strangely rectangular. 
Edited by Steve_Tk - 8/6/2009 at 04:15 pm GMT
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post #4 of 24
8/6/09 at 9:20am
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[squints] I think it's a building... maybe a skyscraper or shopping center. This object might be all that was left of a sprawling metropolis until disaster struck and everything was wiped out. The Martians must have gone underground, probably in huge caverns where Martian intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regard our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us....
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post #5 of 24
8/6/09 at 9:45am
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Originally Posted by Steve Christou View Post

[squints] I think it's a building... maybe a skyscraper or shopping center. This object might be all that was left of a sprawling metropolis until disaster struck and everything was wiped out. The Martians must have gone underground, probably in huge caverns where Martian intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regard our Earth with envious eyes, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us....

I think you are correct and this is the door to the elevator shaft leading down into the caverns.
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post #6 of 24
8/6/09 at 10:02am
Golden-eyed they were....

I think it's the top of a church. Apparently a Catholic church. Bad news for those of us not belonging to that congegration...

But then again, it looks like the dust around it is still relatively recently disturbed. So perhaps it simply fell down from one of our many probes.


Cees
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post #7 of 24
8/6/09 at 5:54pm
It's clearly a Tardis.
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post #8 of 24
8/6/09 at 6:11pm
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I think it's the top of a church. Apparently a Catholic church.
 

No, from my experiences here it looks more lile a Mormon church steeple.
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post #9 of 24
8/6/09 at 6:19pm
I have sharpened the image a bit and its clearly the start of a new Walmart.  There go the Martian and pop shops. Damn that Walmart...
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post #10 of 24
8/6/09 at 7:18pm
it's a phone booth!
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post #11 of 24
8/7/09 at 6:20am
I see the headlines now:

"Jimmy Hoffa's grave found on Mars"
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post #12 of 24
8/7/09 at 8:06am
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Marvin the Martian
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post #13 of 24
8/7/09 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by gormo01 View Post

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post #14 of 24
8/8/09 at 2:05am
It looks like a white van. Must be selling some speakers to the martians.
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post #15 of 24
8/8/09 at 6:15am
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Originally Posted by TonyD View Post



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gormo01 knew the true identity of the monolith and was about to reveal it to the world right here on HTF, but he was abducted before he could.

It looks to me like it is the top of a large pyramid and the rest is buried under the sand.
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post #16 of 24
8/8/09 at 6:37am
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Originally Posted by BrianW View Post

It's clearly a Tardis.

It's missing the light on top of it.

It's either a coincidentally shaped boulder, or a British "Keep Left" sign.



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post #17 of 24
8/8/09 at 7:16am
 I think I see a boy and his dog standing nearby.
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post #18 of 24
8/8/09 at 9:45am
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...and who can forget last years Bigfoot sighting on Mars? Remember the photo?


Bigfoot on Mars

...and that first image of the camera shy Martian sasquatch appearing on the news -

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post #19 of 24
8/9/09 at 8:54am
I think he was going outside to check who was banging on his door so earlier in the morning.
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post #20 of 24
8/9/09 at 9:16am
I hadn't realized that the Who had been to Mars.

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post #21 of 24
8/11/09 at 1:23pm
Now we know where The Phantom Zone from Superman II landed...
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post #22 of 24
8/11/09 at 5:27pm
Silica bodega
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post #23 of 24
8/18/09 at 4:24pm
It's the start of the new Stonehenge on mars!
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post #24 of 24
8/30/09 at 10:24am
 Door to the Krell machine.
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