In July, 1976, Viking Orbiter 1 was acquiring images of the Cydonia region of Mars and photographing a region of buttes and mesas. Among the hills was one that, to the Viking investigators scrutinizing the images for likely landing sites, resembled a face. Owing to the importance of the landing site search, and with a desire to provide the public with at least one familiar-looking landform amid the craters and exotic terrains found all over Mars, an image including the face-like hill was released as part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's public relations effort. The text of that release notes the face-like hill. The image above, on top, was taken recently. The second image is from that initial batch of photos NASA/JPL released thirty years ago...
Of course, following the release of that picture and story, many in the UFO community have argued that the face-like hill is artificially shaped.
The image on top--Image PSP_003234_2210 was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on 05-Apr-2007 [1]. The image was taken at a local Mars time of 03:28 PM and the scene is illuminated from the west with a solar incidence angle of 73 degrees, thus the sun was about 17 degrees above the horizon. The season on Mars is Northern Autumn.
[1] For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft. The HiRISE camera was built by Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation and is operated by the University of Arizona.
The Band often played Don't Do It as an encore. It was the last song they played (albeit in a truncated, one-verse version) at their Last Waltz in 1976. It was usually sung in a dual lead by Rick Danko and Levon Helm. If you'll excuse Robbie Robertson's posing here, this is a decent, but not definitive version. . .
Baby don't you do it, don't do it Don't you break my heart Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart
A sacrifice would make you happy if nothing for myself Now you wanna leave me for the love of someone else My pride is all gone whether I'm right or wrong I need you baby to keep on keepin' on
You know I'm trying to my best Oh i'm trying to do my best Don't do it, don't you break my heart Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart
My biggest mistake was loving you too much and letting you know Now you got me where you want me and you won't let me go If my heart was made of glass well then you'd surely see How much heartache and misery, girl, you've been causing me
While I've been trying to do my best Well I've tried to do my best Don't do it, don't you break my heart
Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart
Go down to the river and there I be I'm gonna jump in girl, but you don't care bout me Open up your eyes Can't ya see I love ya? Open up you heart, girl Can't ya see I need ya?
Oh baby don't do it, do it, do it Don't you break my heart Pleeeeease don't do it don't you break my heart
My biggest mistake was loving you too much and letting you know Now you got me where you want me and you won't let me go If my heart was made of glass well then you'd surely see How much heartache and misery, girl, you've been causing me
While I've been trying to do my best You know I've tried to do my best Don't do it, don't you break my heart Pleeeeease don't do it, don't you break my heart ---o0o---
Attention to serial and parallel killers. It would be nice if, in the future, you just skipped the killing innocent people part and got right to the suicide phase. Follow your leader!
Among the materials released this afternoon were the contents of a DVD with 27 QuickTime video files, totaling about 10 minutes, showing Cho talking directly to the camera. mentions "hedonism" and Christianity, and talks at length about his hatred of the rich.
I just heard about a minute of the Cho audio on KIRO 710 AM. This guy is even more twisted than you might think. Some links:
