Mars Base Video: Comparative Cosmic Ray Images Missing From MSM Debunking Reports
Armchair Astronaut Ridiculed by MSM
[Photo: 'Mars Base' image via Google Mars]
The Youtube video ‘Bio Station on Mars’ was been removed by the ‘user’, David Martines, dubbed the ‘Armchair Astronaut’ and ‘Armchair Astronomer’ by the MSM–Copy of video posted below. The MSM news media ‘debunked’ the video after it went viral, up to almost 900,000 hits shortly after the video was posted on Youtube. After perusing several MSM news reports debunking the video, the question, did the MSM do a thorough job of debunking the image? Based on the comment sections, the answer, not exactly, as the MSM failed to provide ‘very common’ evidence to back up their claim the image was caused by a cosmic ray. While the MSM failed to provide evidence they did spend an inordinate amount of print ridiculing Martines.
[Photo: Zoomed in 'Mars Base' image]
While Martines has removed his video, intrepid users at Youtube copied Martines’ original and reposted it on Youtube:
Martines and his Mars base video underwent the scrutiny of the MSM after the video went viral. While Martines used Google Mars, the MSM used a single source as the expert to debunk Martines video, Alfred McEwen, a planetary geologist at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the director of the Planetary Imaging Research Laboratory. McEwen’s explanation was then parroted by several new media outlets.
Did the MSM debunk the object in Martines’ video?
The answer lies in what was actually said by McEwen, and, what the reports from the MSM failed to provide, photo or images which would have backed up McEwen’s claim.
The original report parroted by the MSM, Did an Amateur Astronomer Spot a Secret Mars Base?, filed by the website Life’sLittleMysteries which is under the same corporate umbrella as Space.com and LiveScience.com..
Life’s Little Mysteries:
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”Has Martines really found evidence of alien life, or a secret space base, as he and some media sources are claiming? No, say experts: “Bio Station Alpha” is simply a glitch in the image caused by cosmic energy interfering with the camera”.
The ‘experts’ cited in the article, Alfred McEwen.
Did McEwen state, unequivocally, the image ‘was caused by cosmic energy interfering with the camera”?
Not exactly.
McEwen: “It looks like a linear streak artifact produced by a cosmic ray.”
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“Cosmic rays are extremely energetic particles emitted by the sun and other stars. For the most part, the Earth’s protective magnetosphere blocks them from hitting the planet’s surface, McEwen explained. “But with space images that are taken outside our magnetosphere, such as those taken by orbiting telescopes, it’s very common to see these cosmic ray hits. You see them on optical images and a lot of the infrared images too,” he told Life’s Little Mysteries.”
Where you haven’t seen them, in Life’s Little Mystery’s debunking report, or, any of the other debunking articles in the MSM. If these types of images are ‘very common’, why not produce a few to add some extra weight to the cosmic ray claim?
McEwen then chastised Google:
McEwen said that the cosmic ray streak would be much easier to recognize in the raw, pre-compressed image, but many orbiters and telescopes have contributed imagery to create the Mars map, and Google doesn’t identify the source image.
“I can’t tell whether this image was taken by Viking or what,” McEwen said. “The people at Google need to document what the heck they’re doing. They should be able to identify what the source of their information is, and let people know so they can go back and look at the raw data.
Over at the Google Mars website, the info:
We’ve included three different types of data in Google Mars:
Elevation – A shaded relief map, generated with data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. This map is color-coded by altitude, so you can use the color key at the lower left to estimate elevations.
Visible – A mosaic of images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. MOC is like the digital camera you have at home. Basically, this is what your eyes would see if you were in orbit around Mars.
Infrared – A mosaic of infrared images taken by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Warmer areas appear brighter, and colder areas are darker. Clouds and dust in the atmosphere are transparent in the infrared, making this the sharpest global map of Mars that’s ever been made.
A thorough debunking would have included contacting Google Mars for the pertinent ‘raw data’. Publishing a couple of images, ‘very common’ images caused by cosmic rays. When an expert tells the news media, something unexplained is ‘most likely’, the observation, ‘most likely’ does not infer case closed, nothing see here, move along.
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In the Lewis Carrollian world of the truth embargo all image anomalies in space can be explained by “ice crystals” and “cosmic rays” just as all contactee events are explained by sleep paralysis (according to Harvard to its everlasting shame). Ultimately the truth embargo makes fools of everyone – not exactly an attractive historical legacy.
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The cosmic ray explanation was a lie. I have seen numerous glitches on Martian photos and micrographs imaged by Mars Exploration Rovers. Those glitches never show red/blue/white colors no matter how you enlarge the photos. NASA has taken tons of Martian images. They just cannot produce another Bio Station Alpha or Betta.
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The Secrecy empire , whose U.S. foundations were
codified, and begun in 1947,arguably the most succesful psyop in history, as it has managed to
govern simultaneously stratify the national
security empire, never admitting the virtual invasion of visitors over the decades, this giant
success will invert into an educational catastrophe , as some event forces admission. The harveet of disorder will result in the opposite of the intentions and plans–for history can be postponed–but not stopped, a charge of change will still occur-at mind stunning speed, so explosure
will be–an explosion of past due channge and a
disclosure that will be uncontrollable–exactly
what abductees are told by off worlders.
vince
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I don’t agree, nor do i disagree. i am indifferent about conclusions to what this anomaly actually is because there is zero proof for any proposal until a better image of location 71 49 41.07 N 29 49 41.07 W Mars is created. If this image is really a cosmic ray incident, which you stated above, how come there aren’t “cosmic rays” that look like mini space stations all over our google earth pictures?
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