More empathy, more metrology
Carrying on with the comparison of delusional elites vs normal schizies....

NASA doesn't help its own cause when it publishes meaningless pictures of Martian stuff. The pix of "stream-like" streaks in this article are a perfect example. The text includes a bunch of stuff about hydrated clays that might make sense to a geologist who studies hydrated clays, but has zero relevance to a non-geologist. Supposedly the stuff about hydrated clays proves that these streams weren't made by water. Maybe so, maybe not. NASA didn't give us any reason to believe it.

Many Martian features are unquestionably rivers made by some kind of liquid. To my eyes these particular pictures don't look like liquid channels. They look like rocks blown off the ridge of a cliff, skittering along the sand until they lose momentum. But my 'story' starts with an assumption of scale and terrain based on Earth experience. If my assumption of scale and terrain is wrong, these pix could be water channels or dune resonances.

Some other pictures, from the 1976 landing and from the newer rovers, show rectangular structures that look a WHOLE LOT like house foundations. I can't think of any way such rectangular pilings could be made by rocks blowing around. Many rocks are rectangular, but they don't pile up like masonry. Again my interpretation starts with an assumption of scale that could be entirely wrong, because the pictures have no indication of scale. Is this rectangle 100 feet long or 1 inch long? No way to tell.

If NASA followed normal mapmaking rules, and took more care to give explanations that make sense, there would be less room for the sillier types of conspiracy theory. For instance, why is the flag planted by Apollo rippling in the wind on the airless moon? Maybe there's a reason in the way the flag was built and folded, but NASA never bothered to give that explanation.

More empathy and more metrology =====>>> Less silliness.

Labels: Metrology

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