<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>It's "humorous" tis true. But, it's also meant to have a little bit of instructional value. Seriously.. Look at it. You see this big rock that looks like a dinosaur head.. to someone. That has obviously been signaled out as significant by someone since it's outlined and commented. But, what about the cow in the back?There are so many things that are awe-inspiring and wonderful contained in the information we receive from our explorations of Space! Really, there are! There are legions of people that hungrily waite by terminals, eager to see even the smallest, most miniscule bits of new data about the World, or more appropriately, Worlds around us. It doesn't take someone making up ideas to make space exploration fascinating or full of mystery and excitement.Yet, some people can't see the truely amazing bits of revelation in Science simply because they would rather invent their own which, as it turns out, are usually not as exciting as the truth. When reality can be so intriguing, why invent fiction to detract from it? It's like "not being able to see the forest for the trees." Or, in the case of this pic, the cow for the imagined dinosaur.. Note: IIRC, that particular picture, unedited of course, was used by some poster long ago who insisted it was evidence that dinosaurs were on the moon. They actually maintained that was a dinosaur skull. I made the same point then, or tried, and am trying to make the same point now by resurrecting that pic. <br />Posted by a_lost_packet_</DIV></p><p>This was really nice image and I truly can mention that I like it 100% without any jokes or whatever. Our brain and our perception of the world is an interesting thing. Pseudoscience or unapproved facts should never dominate in the world, otherwise we would be in a big dilusion. Unfortunately, today flows of information are sometimes so conflicting that it is easy to start believing in fiction, creating some kind of an illusionary shell around. The average man can't value achievements of science because s/he just can't understand 95% of it without explaination. That's why fictional world chewed over by some authors is accepted much better. </p><p>I don't want to make pseudoscience which I consider to be unfair for people. This sudden obsession about Lines and other things was quite interesting for me personally but it shouldn't affect others if there is no strong argument behind it. I was just thinking that even if there is an intelligent life, why should it has the same perceptual levels as humans and then I came up with multilayer image mapping when one object in the background contributes somehow to what is seen on the foreground. I was trying to "look behind". Then some of the structures in Nazca Desert became more interesting and structures in other places also. But this is an edge of illusions. Unfortunately, in this case the truth starts to belong to the eye of the beholder, . I can't understand how to delayer structures to prove something so I will just put it in some folder with a name "mind games" and make it my hobby to understand the borders of my perception and my brain. Agree with you fully that reality is very intriguing and I can say that I'm always driven to understand it better. But sometimes routine of a big city life makes you find some dilusions. Sometimes it is just needed to experience different life because our real world is very small. And people can't do it in real so they start creating their fictional "envelope" or dreaming. The latter one I like more. For example, my modest dream is that one day I will be able to step on Mars like many others and say: "Wow! What a beautiful world." We will never understand the whole Universe, but it is nice to try <img src="http://sitelife.livescience.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-smile.gif" border="0" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /></p>