Mythos_Ruler
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A few years ago during a flyover, they reimaged the "face" with higher reolution cameras. It turned out to be anything BUT a face.
Original 1970s image from Viking I
New, high res image (2001)
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Movies and Music - Uh, discuss movies and music.
Movies Only - Self-Explanatory
Music Only - Playing Music and Listening to Music
Art - A place to post one's own artwork!
Short Story Writing - A place to post one's stories
Communal Story Writing - A place where the community participates in writing a story. This could be in conjunction with "Short Story Writing."
Sports - Football, Football, etc. heh
Automobiles - Blah blah
Books - Talk about the book you just read, etc.
Other - Specify
Just curious what y'all think.
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You both have been marked for the next round of exterminations.
Anyone else wish to make a mockery of this disturbing development?
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1.7018 meters - ABYSMAL
Perhaps another thread: "How dark is your tan?"
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http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/o...9_20040304.html
What Is It?
Like a rabbit in a hat, the identity of an oddity that looks like "bunny ears" in a picture from Mars has eluded the science and engineering teams. The public, also fascinated with the mysterious object, has asked in a slew of e-mails: What is it?
It is a yellowish object measuring about 4 to 5 centimeters (about 2 inches) long that made its debut when Opportunity's eyes welcomed Earth to a new neighborhood on Mars in her mission success panoramic image. Meridiani Planum is a landscape unlike any other stop on our decades-long tour of the red planet. Still, it wasn't the conspicuous bedrock outcropping near the horizon that initially fascinated many people. It was the "bunny ears."
Bemused By Bunny
Temporarily sharing a large workroom in the building that houses rover mission control, engineers were still meticulously reconstructing the events of entry, descent and landing and scientists were anxiously poring over the pictures their most recently successful twin was returning.
Jeff Johnson, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey and a member of the panoramic camera team, heard from others about a small, fuzzy-looking object in the mission success panorama. Viewing the image on his computer screen, Johnson wondered aloud, "What in the world is this?" Colleagues gathered around his computer table, trying to make sense of the oddity.
Most team members agreed that the "bunny ears" had been, at some point, part of the rover or its lander. The yellowish color led many to conclude that the object was a piece of airbag material.
The Mars Pathfinder mission set a precedent in 1997 for puzzling pieces around the landing site. An object dubbed "Pinky" caught the attention of the Pathfinder science team and the public. Although never positively identified, it was thought to be a piece of Kapton tape – an adhesive used often in aerospace applications.
How Did They Track the Mysterious Object?
To further complicate the Meridiani mystery, when Johnson tried to image the quirky "ears" at higher resolution, they had vanished from where they were originally spotted – about 4.5 meters (15 feet) from the lander. Johnson, intrigued by their disappearance, was good-naturedly assigned by Steve Squyres (the mission's principal investigator) to "track the bunny." He discovered that the object was visible in navigation camera images acquired on landing day – but lying a meter (about 3 feet) further from the lander, up the crater slope. Using JPL-designed software, scientists are able to measure the "bunny ears" in each image where they appear. The object is about the same size in every image.
"After looking at pictures of Opportunity's lander up-close, I think we might have, again, spotted the bunny," said Johnson. "It looks as if the object has been blown under the north-facing egress ramp."
Johnson and his colleagues believe that a light wind whirling from the north over Opportunity's Challenger Memorial Station landing site could have transported the article. Its small size indicates that it would be easily carried by even a light wind. The three-color Pancam images acquired of the object as part of the mission success panorama even showed some evidence that the object moved slightly between images from the gentle wind. Johnson estimates that the breeze pushed the "bunny ears" an estimated 5 to 6 meters (about 16 to 20 feet).
"There's no evidence of a mark that it left in the soil as it moved," Johnson noted. "It was light enough and small enough to not leave any ‘footprints'."
If Not a Bunny, Then What?
Without seeing the "bunny ears" object up close with our own eyes, it's difficult to provide a positive identification. However, scientists and engineers are quick to deflate the myth that it is anything inexplicable.
"Our team believes that this odd-looking feature is a piece of soft material that definitely came from our vehicle," said Rob Manning, lead engineer for entry, descent and landing. "We cannot say exactly where it came from but we can say that there are several possibilities: cotton insulation, Vectran covers and wraps from the airbag,Zylon bridle tensioning ties, or felt insulation from the gas generators.... The list goes on. We do not think this is parachute material, however, due to its color (it does not look blue enough to be the undyed nylon or red enough to be the dyed nylon).
Knowing the possibility that we could have left a bit of a mess nearby, once we saw this feature we only marveled at how clean everything looked and we have not given it another thought. We try to make sure that bits do not fall off, but they do, and we were not at all surprised."
Johnson took the visual color clues a step further. He measured the visible light spectrum from the Pancam image of the "bunny ears" and compared it to the spectrum of a sample of airbag material. The nearly identical spectra are distinct from typical martian soil or rock spectra and lead Johnson to believe that the "bunny ears" are, indeed, a wayward piece of airbag material or something similar.
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Mythos Ruler's ANALYSIS
These startling images clearly show an evasive pattern being executed by the alien lifeform. It clearly wishes to escape detection on it's recon mission to assess what danger, if any, our lander poses to it's species.
The following are an artist's concept of the obviously HOSTILE liefeforms infesting the Red Planet:
And our tactical analysis of their attack patterns:
As you can see, the enemy uses highly evolved formations and tactics. See how they engage in the "wingman" philosophy as would any USAF squadron would employ. This clearly demonstrates their knowledge of our military tactics and maneouvres.
I hope this briefing shocks you all to action. Write your representative in whatever form of legislative body your home country has established. Join your local Boy Scout Troop. Do SOMETHING to help curb this imminent and growing threat before it is too late.... before they can launch Easter Eggs our way!*
P.S: All citizens are urged to keep tabs on your neighbors' domesticated animals, especially of the rodent variety, as they may be found to be in collusion with the alien infestation.
*note: Both the CIA and INTERPOL neither confirm nor deny the existence of the affore mentioned Easter Egg weapon - only that the capability exists to possibly someday train their scientists to think about making nuclear or biological Intersolar Easter Eggs). -
Nice bell curve we have going in our poll results...
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Wow, it's currently 1 2 1 2 1 2 0 LOL
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Went for the Ephesian underdog.
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[cries] 5'-7" [/cries]
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That pig.... wow. Pretty disgusting actually... LOL
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So, uh, in Italy it is legal to take testimony from eyewitnesses who may or MAY NOT remember what was said, but illegal to use taped recordings?!?!?! I'm speechless. LOL
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Yeah, I can access the core discussions group as well... I'm not sure if that's what Tonto was talking about though...
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I was thinking about a 3D Fight game, in the vein of Virtua Fighter, Mortal Combat, Street Fighter, etc. But this time it would have an historical setting. Choose between the units we have in 0A.D. We could create high res, high poly models to use, based on the units of 0A.D.
Characters could include:
Greek Hoplite
Roman Legionnaire
Persian Immortal
The various Roman gladiators
Celts
etc.
You could even customize your own characters to add to the game. When playing multiplayer, the custom character would upload, much like a custom map in AOK.
Various "arenas" or "worlds" would include actual historical places used in 0 A.D. Imagine taking part in a gladiatorial fight in the middle of the Roman Colosseum... or a Greek hoplite and Persian Immortal fighting it out on the steps of the Parthenon in Athens. Players could even design their own "arenas" to fight in.
The way we can "innovate" over the afore mentioned fight games would be to add other fighters in the arena with you. Other things could be moveable/useable objects and weapons. We could also add an involving, branching, storyline for each individual character (similar to a "campaign" in 0A.D.).
Community ideas would be to host contests like, "Create the coolest historical character" or "Best Arena."
Any thoughts?
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Reminds me of the game for Sega Genesis where you were a caveman rescuing your women. At the end of each "level" you'd rescue a scantily clan woman. I remember liking the brunette the best.
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You were probably logged in with a cookie and you didn't know it. One possibility. Or something happened while transferring the forums to the new server and permissions were open for a small time. Another possibility.
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Most people don't know I can draw well.
BTW - Nuclear family means "immediate" family. Nuclear means "core" and not necessarily "weapons" or "nuclear reaction."
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No more Medieval games... please....
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Although this gate is part of the Aurelian Walls, a similar gate on this spot would have been the site of the famous duel between Spartacus and his slave friend at the end of "Spartacus" (1960).
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Exactly Acumen... I think that's why we're going to be "shipping" more than one campaign... plus, with our time period, there are just so many stories we can tell!
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"Blurry" by Puddle of Mudd
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Whether you like one game as a whole over the other isn't what this poll is about. As far as the single player CAMPAIGN goes, AOM wins hands down. With actual special FX, a unique storyline, and fleshed out characters, it trounces all of AOK's shipped campaigns. Of course, overall gameplay is another question.
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I disagree. Sea battles in aok were more of an econ game than actually having the right ships (you only had galleon line units).
AOK had a lot more variety: Galleons, Cannon Galleons, Fireships, Demolishion Ships, Trade Cogs, and the various upgrades to them all.
AOM doesn't have trade cogs or demo ships. No water trade and no other "option" (demo ships) besides the paper-rock-scisors of Arrow > Hammer > Siege ship.
EDIT: BTW, where did ES pull the "hammer" ship out of? Pretty historically inaccurate.
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I am 150 lbs (60.039 Kilos). I highly recommend the low-carb diet for you other North American joes
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