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Strange light on Mars

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Re: Strange light on Mars

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With such a thin atmosphere, why would a light shining upwards be visible from the side? For a light to be visible laterally like this, you'd need atmosphere for a scattering effect and a very bright light. A light pointing upwards from the surface of Mars should only be visible to something looking downwards. Concluding that it's intelligent life "using lights as we do" is just a wild claim with no backing. From the…

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Re: Strange light on Mars

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The guy the article quotes is quite a character.

From his post:

"Sure NASA could go and investigate it, but hey, they are not on Mars to discovery life, but there to stall its discovery."

On a related note, I recently discovered that YouTube is a hotbed of dedicated quackery.

The amount of effort put into some of the "updates" and the odd intersections of religion, pseudoscience and misinterpretations of actual science are fascinating.

One of my favorite podcasts "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe" [0] does a good job of keeping abreast of and debunking some of the popular trends in wackiness.

0: https://www.theskepticsguide.org/

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