‘Alien thigh bone’ on Mars: Excitement from alien hunters at ‘evidence’ of extraterrestrial life

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LONDON: More than two years into the Curiosity rover’s lonely trek across Mars, conspiracy theorists believe they have struck gold: an “alien thigh bone” has been spotted on the surface of the red planet.

For keen alien hunters, the image below — taken by the rover’s MastCam on August 14 — is proof that large animals once roamed Mars, possibly even dinosaurs.

“Simply put this shows that there were some living things on the Mars (sic),” asserts an anonymous editorial writer at Northern Voices Online, while the popular site UFO Blogger compares the find to previous images of a “fossilized, reptilian spine” and a “human finger”.

The regularity of these “finds” is of course testament not to the once-flourishing wildlife of Mars, but to the human brain’s remarkable capacity to spot patterns in random noise.

This was a handy trait for our ancestors when identifying a potential predator among the primeval foliage, but in modern times it’s more likely to lead only to those little “huh” moments when we spot a face in some inanimate object….see more

source: Times of India

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