The Ship of Dreams in the Crater

Reflection: #055

Another beautiful specimen of a species with a strange form of life on Mars. 

You can say they are dunes, snows, ices of different elements (NASA prefers to speak of carbon dioxide, as if that excluded life and were the only element that freezes on Mars), accumulations of sand, or geological forms. You can qualify my descriptions as illusions, fantasies, or fables—and other terms besides.

I observe these individuals attentively, change their colors—from inverted to black and all shades in between—and, of course, enlarge the images as far as the resolution allows. I do this because, with different colors, the shadows, transparency, dimension, and perspective change, and each aspect reflects something different.

Many times, in inverted color—like the negatives of a roll of film from a photographic camera—the true three-dimensional body of a rock or place becomes clearly visible.  I have the impression—without being able to show evidence—that some images already come inverted from NASA. The black sky in images of the Moon, or perhaps also of Mars, may be altered. The original would then be a transparent white or bluish sky, as we are accustomed to seeing here on Earth. But the black color possibly hides the atmosphere, the stars, or something flying around there.

Many times, I change the black color, and instantly, it looks more normal or more familiar. It loses that mystical tone that black has.  I chose this color, though it could be another—like a gray with blue, which is also very good for giving shape and life to certain structures.  I tell you that you cannot change the appearance of something if it is not, truly, something different, out of the ordinary. Only a structure that does not belong to the environment—be it geological or biological—stands out with variations in color. And who assures us with certainty what filter is used in taking the images?

There are descriptions of the filters, but certainty?

Is there any?

Are there professional experts who have sworn on their honor, by God, by their country, or by humanity that their testimonies are true?

Simply no. They will tell me that I am arrogant.

To ask a scientist for something like an oath? But why not?  Our religion, our faith, our life, our culture, the wars, and much more depend on the analysis of all the information coming from space.

It is no small thing if they send me to fight in a supposed holy war for a cause, to believe in a god who exists only for us, to deliver my soul to a god who did not create beings on another planet—and suddenly, they do exist. Any product on Earth is tested and approved after many controls and multiple analyses for its use—whether food, clothing, building materials, technology, or medicines—so as not to cause harm to anyone.  From NASA come images via the internet, accompanied by a description. Who writes them?

An employee of what category? Of what religion, what training, what political tendency? That's why I tell you, dear readers: My descriptions may be wrong, but I describe what I see.

Without seeking detours for secrets that affect the homeland or the world.

Without thinking of one or several theologies or politics of the day. If something seems like a tree to me, I describe it as such. With more data related to the image, we can improve and correct the description. Until NASA gives us each image with the resolution they have at their disposal, we will describe everything we see, just as it seems to us. Period. What is more sincere? Delivering an image with low resolution, with shadows and parts darkened by computer, or a spontaneous description?  

My description is that this individual is well protected in this crater, lives its life there, and perhaps does not believe that there is intelligent life on this blue planet, its neighbor.  "What do you say?" it said to me when I appeared in one of its long dreams and told it about us.

"The blue planet, Earth, with extraterrestrial life? Not even in dreams, friend!" 

It took a breath and kicked me out of its dreams. Before returning to reality, my last impression was that it laughed. 

Josef Bauer

Source: S1000780

Fuente: Nasa/ Mars Global Surveyor - Mars Orbiter Camera S1000780

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