Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/gallery-of-weird-images-ta.html
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It’s never inappropriate to remind people of this wonderfully-psychedelic bit of pop:
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A rock that looks like a squirrel is still just a rock.
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Unless…
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Plus it completely ignores all of the squirrels that look like rocks.
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TLDR: Rocks. All rocks. Except for the plastic waste we’ve already infected the planet with somehow…
Also included on the gallery the amazing rock that looks like a rock.
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I can only see the photo of some rocks with a red oval drawn around some random rock, which looks like a rock.
What we have here is a clear case of apophenia:
“Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.”
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Squirrel? All I see is a roadkilled platypus.
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Two different instances of round rocks in those pictures. On earth, rocks like those are frequently the result of flowing water.
Since mars has a mostly geologically dead (1) surface I’d expect that many of the rounded rocks have been sandblasted by the wind over the past billion years or so. You see a lot of wind-eroded rocks in the Australian desert.
- Meteor impacts do a decent job of smashing the surface and throwing rocks around, else everything would be nice and smooth.
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The Man in the Mars is literally the picture for the definition. Actually a really fascinating phenomenon, says a lot about how illogically our brains work for our current situation.
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Earth squirrels are kind of pests. They bury a lot of peanuts in my garden’s raised beds. I don’t how they get soooooo many peanuts, but they get them.
Martian squirrels are probably equally annoying, and I have NO idea where they get their peanuts from.
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Or possibly chasing a mars bunny
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Death Star and PacMan…take that you rebel scum !!!
Maybe you have all lost your sense of wonder but I for one find it fascinating that the surface if Mars is inexplicably littered with big red ovals.
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