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Yet again citizen observers have spotted something odd on Mars – this time what appears to be a woman in a long flowing gown standing on a cliff face. Martian woman The truth is out there; or maybe not "It looks like a woman partly cloaked. The woman seems to have breasts... indicated by the shadow on its chest," reports …

  1. Christoph

    Dejah Thoris!

    1. Doctor_Wibble

      Yes but why is she riding a unicycle and what's that on her head if it's not the Martian equivalent of a duck?

  2. Agincourt and Crecy!

    It is simply...........

    pareidolia.

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge

      Re: It is simply...........

      Obligatory planetary pareidolia:

      https://xkcd.com/1551/

    2. Robin

      Re: It is simply...........

      Yeah you'd think they'd have pointed that out in the article. The 9th paragraph after the picture would've been a great place to do so. Maybe next time.

    3. Wzrd1 Silver badge

      Re: It is simply...........

      A rock, rather like the rocks in the heads of those who think it's a human form.

  3. Francis Boyle Silver badge

    I expect "she"

    will be revealed to be about 10cm tall at which point 'UFO Sightings Daily' will explain she's a fairy and albeit of the wingless Martian kind.

    Also, I can't see any breasts but I she looks topless to me. Oh gawd, now I'm doing it.

    1. Ian Michael Gumby
      Facepalm

      Re: I expect "she"

      Sorry but "she" is Catlin?sp? aka Bruce Jenner

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: I expect "she"

        That's what "she" said.

      2. Ian Michael Gumby

        Re: I expect "she"

        " Reply Icon

        Re: I expect "she"

        Sorry but "she" is Catlin?sp? aka Bruce Jenner

        "

        Too soon?

    2. Astarte

      Re: I expect "she"

      That's a very large pin-head for just one fairy to dance upon.

  4. Charles Manning

    Clearly...

    A druid with moobs.

    If this is the crap that crowd-sourcing science gives us, then please bring back the boffins.

  5. lone_wolf

    looks like Eddie Munsters Mom.

  6. Kaltern

    Face of Mars? Yes, definitely interesting.

    Woman of Mars? No. Not even close.

    I'm waiting for the picture of Jesus on Mars. Although the Face of Mars might indeed be him, seeing as it's been discovered that Jesus had no beard...

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge

      I'm genuinely surprised no-one yet has suggested it's the Virgin Mary On Mars.

      Oh bugger, I just did.

    2. MrXavia
      Alien

      Face of mars.. meh...

      I find the Cydonia pyramids more interesting, one is a 5 sided pyramid that looks partially covered in sand/dust on one side from years of sandstorms...

      Now is it artificial? unlikely, but until someone takes a look we will never know!

  7. Palpy

    And now for something...

    "Yes! The probe has struck crumpet!"

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge

      Re: And now for something...

      Don't forget the butter, Gromit!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: And now for something...

        Bloody 'ell luv, when you said you were "Sandy" i thought you were refering to your name!!!

        Where's the savlon!!!

  8. John Tserkezis

    It's not my ex wife!

    I mean, I didn't think anyone would actually look there, but...

    Nothing to see here, move along....

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: It's not my ex wife!

      Hans?

  9. Kharkov
    Paris Hilton

    Ray Bradbury called it...

    Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called 'Ylla' in 1948. Ylla was a Martian woman trapped in a loveless marriage who picks up the impending arrival of the first astronauts from Earth and, through telepathy, falls in love with one of them. Cue jealous husband, with Martian shotgun, at the landing site and Oh my god, it's coming right for me! TWICE!

    So we can assume that this woman is also called Ylla and she's fallen in love with... a machine (ouu err!). Expect jealous hubby to be along with his shotgun any time now...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Ray Bradbury called it...

      Sounds a little bit like "The Martian Chronicles".

      1. VinceH

        Re: Ray Bradbury called it...

        That'll be because it's one of The Martian Chronicles.

    2. Paul Crawford Silver badge
      Gimp

      Re: Ray Bradbury called it...

      "fallen in love with... a machine"

      But is it a strict machine?

      1. F0rdPrefect

        Re: Ray Bradbury called it...

        "But is it a strict machine?"

        Quite gentle, really.

  10. Youngone Silver badge
    Facepalm

    Impressions

    The two phrases I took away from TFA were:

    However, a statue that small would be eroded and destroyed easily, so it has a higher chance of being a living being.

    Which should just provoke an raging debate about the statistical likelihood of either of those.

    Also:

    Jesus in a bucket of pizza sauce

    Which made me wonder, who the hell eats food out of buckets? Perhaps four legs really are better.

    1. Martin Budden Silver badge

      Re: Impressions

      KFC have been selling their wares in buckets for years. Or are they garbage bins? Looking at the contents, I really can't be sure.

    2. Mark 85

      Re: Impressions

      The sauce is delivered to the pizzeria in buckets with lids. Somehow, I don't think a cardboard box for just the sauce would work.

    3. Charles Manning

      She's standing on a rock....

      If you zoom and enhance you'll see a tiny spider and she's waiting for a man to come kill it.

    4. Kar98

      Re: Impressions

      Americans.

      *theme from Jeopardy*

      > who the hell eats food out of buckets?

  11. Mark 85

    They got it wrong in the 50's...

    Mars needs men!!!!! Not women.

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    Ignoring the bleeding obvious...

    What about the cowl wearing giant skull to "her" right?

    1. The Indomitable Gall

      Re: Ignoring the bleeding obvious...

      Bloody hell -- you're right! It's giant Skeletor, buried in sand, and the tiny woman is trying to escape from the grip of his bony fingers!

  13. brainbone
    Stop

    Looks like a statue of an angel.

    Don't Blink!

  14. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Obvious Man

    is obvious.

  15. skeptical i
    Devil

    Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman from Mars

    The white thing on the next outcropping over (to her right/ our left) was someone's beach house (white walls, dark roof) until not long after this piccie was snapped ... no one says 'no' to the Avon Lady and goes unpunished, ask the folks whose houses' ruins are scattered at the bottom of the empty lake basin.

  16. mediabeing

    Okay! So let's all go crazy.

    Oh yeah, this was obviously a bus stop, once upon a time.

    We're seeing the ghost of a lady Martian waiting for a long gone mass conveyance.

    I see in the photo also a woman laying on a slab that must have been part of a large building.

    I also see the eroded remains of a giant hand in the foreground.

    Can we grow up now, please?

    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      Re: mediabeing's boffinry breakthrough

      "We're seeing the ghost of a lady Martian waiting for a long gone mass conveyance."

      Get the President on the phone - stat.

      C.

  17. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Obviously it's just the cleaner from NASA's stage where they pretend to shoot photos of Mars, the chances of NASA going to Mars are as likely as NASA putting a man on the moon.

    1. Little Mouse

      Cleaning woman. Cleaning woman. Cleaning Woman?

      CLEANING WOMAN??!!!????

      *CLEA* *NING* *WO* *MAN*??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  18. et tu, brute?
    Coat

    Easy to disprove...

    ...by sending the nuclear tank bank to the same spot, and taking another picture! And if she is still there, trundle over for a closer look...

    Mine's the one with the galactic bus ticket in the pocket...

  19. Sceptic Tank Silver badge
    IT Angle

    When last did you dust here?

    It's the fossilized remains of customer of a long gone supermarket still waiting in the queue.

    (What's the IT angle? Fossilized while waiting for the next useable Windows version?)

  20. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Thumb Up

    Alia on the Shield Wall?

    FANTASTIC!

    An excellent cover image for the next edition of Children of Dune!

  21. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I take it somebody has already claimed it is Mary and tried to sell it on ebay?

  22. Ken 16 Silver badge

    Someone has to really want to see a woman there

    and have only anecdotal knowledge of their appearance, to be so excited.

  23. Tromos
    Joke

    Right now I could murder a double Jesus

    Pizza sauce on toast, that is.

  24. Schlimnitz
    Headmaster

    Aaararraghgghagh!

    "Going forward"

    Unless you're punning about the motion of Curiosity, please refrain.

  25. hatti

    It can't be

    That's Kate Bush !

    1. Soap Distant

      Re: It can't be

      @ hatti

      It's where she ends up when she keeps disappearing in the Wuthering Heights video... Took her ages to get back tho ;)

  26. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    Breasts

    Two or three?

    Arnie's version of Total Recall

    1. F0rdPrefect

      Re: Breasts

      "Two or three?"

      Depends if it is Eccentrica Gallumbits or not.

      Pre-dating the Schwarzenegger film by quite a few years..

  27. TheProf
    Facepalm

    It's a hologram

    "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."

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  29. Anon E. Mouse

    Judi Dench

    Chronicles of Riddick

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

      Re: Judi Dench

      More like Chronicles of Reddit, amIrite?

  30. msknight

    I'm transsexual. I carry dual citizenship, so ... meh.

  31. Winkypop Silver badge
    Facepalm

    ORLY

    "so it has a higher chance of being a living being."

    Compared to what?

    Simple optical allusion?

    Occam's razor, required, stat!

  32. x 7

    its a fossil mermaid (or siren) -not a woman

    remember Mars used to be wet

  33. Tikimon
    Thumb Up

    It's a big thumbs-up, of course...

    If you include the "cliff face" you'll see it's a six-fingered left hand giving a big thumbs-up. Perhaps an ancient, eroded advertisement for something. Or the entrance of an underground gladiatorial arena. Either are more likely than any sort of woman standing in the freezing cold flashing her ta-tas.

    Obvious icon!

  34. Fink-Nottle
    IT Angle

    OS X

    I see an image of the OS X finder icon guy in the rock to the right of the woman.

  35. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I can't make out a woman in that, but why* wouldn't NASA not have a closer look? Aren't they just bumbling round Mars semi-randomly anyway? A good of a chance as any by going and having a quick gander.

    * No, I'm not saying they're covering up the existence of 6" tall human women living on Mars.

  36. ravenviz Silver badge

    Isn't that Queen Victoria?

  37. Zmodem

    fake, its not on http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/

  38. Sumner R Andrews Jr

    Further Review

    Granted this could be a big joke of NASA's. However, blowup the picture for a close up of the alleged dress. Notice that it stands out from the bleak and basically uniform background behind it. Note that circle designs and a ripple in the dress are discernalbe. Pretty odd, huh.

  39. Major Major

    ".. but to do so would be to lapse into the kind of conspiracy theory that Humans, who did not really understand statistics, tended to lapse into. It was coincidence, just that."

  40. Chris G

    ARSE!

    See title

  41. wolfetone Silver badge

    Could just be one of Arnold J Rimmer's creations..... perish the thought.

  42. jackharbringer
    Coat

    In what probably comes as a great relief to psychiatrists everywhere ...

    ... all I can see is a giant phallus.

    Oh, time for my therapy already?

  43. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Why did we bother going?

    Not sure why anyone bothered sending such expensive probes and rovers to Mars in the first place. All they really needed to do was come read the Reg forum, because everyone here knows what's on Mars, the nature of everything there, its history, its geology and chemical makeup. Here, we know that there is no life on Mars, never has been, never will be and we'd even go so far as to suggest, in our expert opinion, that there are no aliens, anywhere, ever, 'cos it's so insane to even use the word or imply we might be wrong.

    Amazing really that there is nothing that is even vaguely mysterious anywhere in all of the Universe, and such a shame that we know everything beyond even the vaguest of doubts.

    Science is done, and all the answers are right here.

  44. Come to the Dark Side

    Curiosity indeed

    Tis an odd one, whatever it is is casting a shadow also, is a different texture from the surroundings and the surface "facing" the camera is darker than it should be for being on the non-shaded face.

  45. Stevie

    Bah!

    This is why we need people on Mars and not robot golf carts with a go-pro bolted on.

    Also, it would seem highly likely that pareidolia is simply what the brain does. Otherwise how does language arise? I'd argue that the mind is just recursive pattern-recognition on steroids.

  46. Robert Baker
    Pint

    Men are from Mars, women are from Venus?

    Ideas like that are from Uranus.

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