New high quality camera proves that Mars is still arid and boring.
On MSNBC, I read an article about a recent NASA project to take new, high definition pictures of Mars. There was a video where a man narrated through some images and said, "Here you can see some tiny rocks that couldn't have been visible without our new super high resolution cameras."
The way I see it, the world of science only gained one piece of knowledge from this billion-dollar mission: boring pictures will still be boring after cranking up the detail. No matter how "high res" you display sand and rocks, they're still going to look like sand and rocks. They don't need a $400,000,000 dune buggy to figure that out.
Pictures of Mars would be interesting if it wasn't such a boring planet. The terrain has absolutely nothing cool going on. I see pictures of Mars and instead of thinking, "Wow, I want to go there!" I think, "Wow, I don't want to go there." Why the media is making such a big deal out of this, I don't understand.
NASA would be better off hiring me to create their pictures of Mars. I would only charge them a couple million dollars and mine would look much better. Plus, the media lies to the public so much anyway that showing fake images of Mars wouldn't be a problem.
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NASA's Landscape |
Alexander's Landscape |
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Requires: Rover, Lander,
Price to make: In the billion$ |
Requires: Photoshop 7
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NASA better jump at this opportunity before I change my mind. With the kind of publicity they're getting with their boring pictures, selling the media my modified images would substantially increase their profit so they could fund the production of yet another million dollar camera to send on a spaceship to yet another boring planet.
I decided to release a few more free images of Mars just because I'm a nice person.
The sad thing is, even though my pictures are so much better than those taken by NASA, their website will get millions of visitors while mine gets virtually none. What a gyp.
Last updated January 7th, 2004