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NASA and coincidences
In 2018, Amanda Kooser, a C/NET journalist copied the world in about the Juno spacecraft capturing an image of a dolphin in the clouds of Jupiter. It’s probably just a cloud. Pareidolia is a real thing. I get it. We see things everywhere. It’s just a coincidental happenstance of cloud formations. Okay. But how many moments of pareidolia have to occur before we start tracking the number of coincidences? When do coincidences of pareidolia become so unlikely, we need to consider another answer. And what should we consider, as we approach that number? Will we ever reach that threshold if we don’t take notice and count?
Avi Loeb, Harvard physicist, PhD, suggested Omuamua was an alien artifact. Statistically, it could be. Even if it’s a very low probability, it could be. The argument Doctor Loeb made still impresses me as being the most important argument to be had in this discussion: “If we don’t ever consider the ordinary evidence, we will never see extraordinary.”
Again, I am not saying this is a dolphin. It looks like a dolphin. Accidentally. The fish rock on Mars that Amanda links to in her article- less like a fish than this dolphin looks like a dolphin. The rat on Mars was a better looking rat than this rock that does not look like a fish to me, but I can see the fish. Not impressed, but I can make it out. The galaxy that looks like Penguins, that rock that looks like a fish look more like a fish than that galaxy looks like penguin. Seriously, you’re going to have to draw some lines around that galaxy and put a happy face before see happy feet. I am just saying.
I am sure this is not a misdirection conspiracy by NASA. Pretty sure. It could be a coincidence…
It looks more like a wingless humming bird to me. Why is journalist can say things look like things, but if a conspiracy theorist says that looks like a rat- we’re nuts?!
