People have once again used image enhancement techniques to convince themselves of intelligent life on Mars.
(14) Joe Rogan on X: “This is fucking WILD.” / X
This is the original image.
Percival Lowell used a similar image enhancement technique to map out canals on Mars in 1911
TimesMachine: August 27, 1911 – NYTimes.com
Sat. Oct 04, 1919
“The fact that the Martian canals exist is no longer doubted, even by the most religious astronomer.”
Oct 04, 1919, page 47 – The Winnipeg Tribune at Newspapers.com
The technique was used again in in 1965.
The difference between the original photo and the one on the top right is pretty much how climate science and other politics works.
One is a blurry thing with about one and a half square angles(or not)
and maybe interesting to a certain degree.
The other one,after data adjustment is a perfect square with sharp edges,impossible to be result of nature and coincidence.
Mann Made.
Settled Science.
Thing is -before data adjustment it’s nothing 99% of people would give a crap about.
Just as with global warming.
But with very specific adjustment tech(in favor of specific symetries)
we get specific results
Thing is – what may work well in videogames to save processing power where AI follows polygonal structures,may result in something unnatural and videogame like.
But California may consider contacting Mr Lowell.
A state that wasted billions of dollars for a new highspeed railroad and still hasn’t built a single yard of track in 15 years could really need some Aliens
who can built 2 giant canals in 2 years to get them the needed water.