Browsing on Wikipedia, I came across a very strange sight. A planetary feature on Mars that looks like a human face. Captivating at first sight, it takes time and a little more reading to realize that it is a photo taken by one of the old Vking explorer space-crafts.
Going on a bit more in this vein, I decided to explore further, remembering having read somewhere about a prehistoric cave painting somewhere in South America depicting an astronauht and a map to Mars. I wiki-ed again, and quite enjoyed reading up on the subject on The Ancienct Astronaut Theories page on Wikipedia.
If you're interested in that kind of stuff, you might also want to look at this. It shows the history of surface water on Mars over the last few billion years ago. "B.Y.A" stands for "Billion Years Ago" I suppose.
These figures in the pic look remarkably like spacemen, especially more so considering they were painted an estimated 10,000 years ago.
Wrapping up this shortie, I remember the zeal that swept the world of teenage schoolboys when NASA announced that they might have discovered bacteria on Mars What a fizzle that turned out to be. Still, hope lives on eternal, in SETI and other efforts.
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