A "Whistle Blower" open letter to Bill and Kerry, and the forum.

[Chris1617]

Originally Posted by sunnyrap

BTW, I'm following several sites that disagree with your position of it being 'unlikely' that there is civilisation on Mars. This one in particular looks pretty interesting:

http://www.yowusa.com/et/2008/et-2008-09a/1.shtml
Evidence of a City on Mars?

YOWUSA.COM, 14-Sep-08
Marshall Masters

Evidence of a City on Mars? On February 01, 2008, Youtube user sean1david1ryan posted his analysis of an ESA Mars photo he obtained from the ESA web site titled Mars Civilization: Evidence By European Space Agency.

In response to reader inquiries we decided to give it a look. First thing we noticed was that this video has been viewed over 193,000 times and has earned a solid 4-star ranking. This tells us it has passed an essential smell test, with the general public.

Hi Sunnyrap,

Not that I wish to be a killjoy, but:

After checking this out it is pretty obvious these are just digital patterns arising from the digital nature of the photograph on the computer. This is a common, though not universal effect. The rigid nature of the straight lines are a giveaway. They are also completely flat and uniform color only, and all basically the same tone and hue. The effect is enhanced by increasing contrast as was done here.

If they were thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of years old they would be very badly worn. Present-day cities? Methinks not.

Perhaps the "general public" are not that sharp?

Don't take this to mean I don't think there was once a civilization on Mars. But IMO this is not any evidence of that. Mars is a very fascinating place, and I think we may well find some very interesting things there in future decades and definitely in future generations.