Are Cydonia pyramids really there?
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I went and did some investigation. It definitely looks to me like the Cydonia "pyramids" are real features on the surface of Mars. However, the question is, are these natural features, or are they artificial? \n\nOf course they might be artificial, and we won't know until we get more data. However, using Occam's Razor (i.e.,the simplest answer is the best) and erring on the side of caution, I would say that the evidence is that these are just natural formations (including the "face"; see reference). \n\nHuman beings are clearly wired for apophenia (also known as the clustering illusion; seeing patterns that are not really there), and in particular, for pareidolia (experiencing optical illusions). Humans are hired-wired to see patterns, and especially faces. On closer examination, and from different angles, a lot of the resemblance of the features on Mars to regular pyramids, or of the "face" to a human face or a lion's face, just disappear. Some of the features of the face were actually due to artefacts in the imaging system!\n\nHere are some other famous examples of pareidolia:\n\nman in the moon\nold man of the mountain NH (collapsed 2003)\nnapoleon's nose rock formation (north of belfast)\n\nThis phenomenon is the basis of  Rorschach inkblot test, even. \n\nIt is hard to imagine that if there had been life on Mars, that they would have left more evidence than that. Also, surely our tests for life on the surface would have produced better evidence.\n\nThis does not mean that it is absolutely impossible that these features are artificial. However, especially given Hoagland's checkered history (see reference), and the lack of evidence, I would say that it is a low probability event. The threshold for belief that these features are artificial is understandably quite high. For outrageous claims, one needs outrageous proof.
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There is no concrete evidence to prove or disaprove its existance. Plato in one of his discusions with Socrates mentions A City far more civilized than that of theirs . He thought it was located far to the west of africa wich would point its location close to South America. Through moder investigation some clame it did exist Close to what we know as The Bermuda Triangle.
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Aha!\n\nPerhaps it would be best to clue you into a direct exploration currently in progress:\n\nIn short, this is directly copied from the BBC :)  The exploration continues, and more evidance is being found, so good reading:\n\nAmerican researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus. \nThe team spent six days scanning the Mediterranean sea bed between Cyprus and Syria using sonar technology. \n\nThey believe they found evidence of massive, manmade structures beneath the ocean floor, including two straight, 2-km (1.25 mile) long walls on a hill. \n\nThey say their discoveries match accounts of the city written by Plato. \n\n\n'Greatest coincidence' \n\nTeam leader Robert Sarmast said the walls appear to be sited on a flat-topped hill where the temples of Atlantis once stood. \n\n \nMyth or reality? It is said to be a place of beauty and wealth \nHe intends to use the sonar data to make a three-dimensional computer image of the site, 1.5km below sea level, before returning for further research. \n\n\n"The hill, as a whole, basically looks like a walled, hillside territory and this hillside territory matches Plato's description of the Acropolis hill with perfect precision," he said. \n\n"Even the dimensions are exactly perfect, so if all these things are coincidental, I mean, we have the world's greatest coincidence going on." \n\nHowever, Mr Sarmast and his team are not alone in believing they have found the lost city of Atlantis. \n\n \nSonar technology was used to survey the sea bed off Cyprus \nOther researchers have placed it off the coast of Spain, Cuba and the south west of England, as well as under the South China Sea. \n\nThe story of Atlantis, a fabled utopia destroyed in ancient times, has captured the imagination of scholars ever since it was first described by the philosopher Plato. \n\nWriting more than 2,000 years ago, he depicted a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty.
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Yes it did happen, if you look on a map by the Yucatan Penisula you'll be able to make out the shape of the crater in the area
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it hasnt been proven, but there are pictures out there, tho most of them are fake\n\ni personally believe that there probably once was one, but there really isnt much chance that it is still alive\n\nit was probably a decendent of some dinosaur thing\n\nso yea, id say it is, well, WAS real
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It depends on your definition of pyramid. If you mean the basically accepted geometric idea of a five sided polygon where four sides are triangles and the last side is a square then the answer would be... Mexico.  Incas, Axtecs, built them all over the place, probably a couple hundred around the country.  If you mean pyramid as simply a burial ground or monument to the dead (what they were used for), then the answer would be the US.  Just in Ohio there are over four hundred mounds of earth built by the ancient peoples to be used as burial grounds or monuments.
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-------The Great Pyramid of Giza\n\nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu.\n\n\n\n-------The Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n\nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II.\n\n\n\n-------The Statue of Zeus at Olympia \n\nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias.\n\n\n\n-------The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n\nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature.\n\n\n\n-------The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria.\n\n\n\n-------The Colossus of Rhodes \n\nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island.\n\n\n\n-------The Lighthouse of Alexandria\n\nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city.
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Seahorses - yes\nMermaids/mermen - i wish, but not currently\nAtlantis - i think yes, it did exist at some point,  because of the oral legends.  For years people thought Troy was only a legend, and then evidence of where it was was, was found (in the 70's or 80's i think).  So, i'm holding out hope for Atlantis....
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A) There are 3 great pyramids at Giza. I'm supposing you mean the largest, the one for Khufu or Cheops as the Greeks called him.\n\nB) Its purpose was twofold. One, to hold in security for eternity the fleshly remains of the Pharaoh and two, to allow his spirit, or ka, to ascend to the heavens with ease and to find its way back home with equal ease.\n\nC) There are those who maintain that simply because the pyramid was unadorned, unfilled with either treasure OR mummy, that it must have had some other purpose, perhaps mystical or paranormal. Sorry. A far more likely explanation was that it was left unfinished when news came that an earlier pyramid had been successfully broken into and robbed. Khufu didn't think quite so highly of HIS final resting place after that and probably made arangements for his body and his goodies to be interred someplace a lot more secret than a 450 ft. tall 3 acre monument one can see from the moon!
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http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/egypt_pyramids.htm
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There are a LOT of ruin sites in CA that have pyramids.  It's hard to know which one you want without more details.  Anything else you can think of to pinpoint it?  \n\nI have been to the Mayan ruins at Copan in Honduras - very cool.\nCould also be Tikal in Guatemala or Altun Ha in Belize.  I think that those are 3 of the most well known outside of Mexico.\n\nOh yeah, there are the smaller sites of Caracol, Lamanai, and Xuantunich in Belize.\n\nThere is a long list of site names without locations at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#List_of_Maya_sites .  You might see if any of those sound familiar.
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no.  you're going to get a variety of responses ranging from the reasonable, like david's to the utterly ridiculous, like a lot of the others already here.\n\nas for the claims that the crater in the yucatan is supposition or "only a theory" (ever heard these words before?) there is a lot of evidence for it:\n\n"Probably the most convincing evidence for a worldwide catastrophe was the discovery of the crater which has since been named Chicxulub Crater. This so-called smoking gun is centered on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and was discovered by Tony Camargo and Glen Pentfield while working as geophysicists for the Mexican oil company PEMEX. What they reported as a circular feature later turned out to be a crater estimated to be 180 kilometers in diameter. Other researchers would later find that the end-Cretaceous extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs had lasted for thousands of years instead of millions of years as had previously been thought. This would be the final piece of evidence that convinced the vast majority of scientists that this extinction resulted from a point event that is most probably an extra-terrestrial impact and not from increased volcanism and climate change (which would spread its main effect over a much longer time period)."\n\nIt seems to be a bit more than a layer of clay in the ground.\n\nwhether this is worthy enough for biblical mention is debatable, but it seems that such a large impact would have had tremendous effects on any living species at the time, including (as creationists claim) humans.  why is there no mention of it either in the bible or other human cultures?  probably because it happened long before any humans were around.  it would have been a very important event, more important than a lot of the mentioned events in the bible.\n\nand if it is mentioned in the bible, please provide a passage.
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I saw a flash about that online but I can't seem to find it. Here's a text version on a website I just found though:\n\nhttp://www.lclark.edu/~krauss/russiaweb2005/wrworkshop/images/smart.tin.it/luccacos/miniatureearth/Miniature%20Earth
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-First-Ever-European-Pyramid-Uncovered-in-Bosnia-22014.shtml
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Regarding chambers beneath the Sphinx - yes, ground penetrating radar studies have revealed several anomalies, none very big, that are probably chambers. It is not clear how many of these reflect natural fissures in the limestone or how many are actual deliberate constructions. It is known that some of these chambers are of fairly recent date - the 1800s, made by explorers and/or in the course of restoration efforts. It is extraordinarily unlikely that there is either a "Chamber of Lost Records" as predicted by Edgar Cayce, nor a "machine" of Atlantean provenance associated with the Sphinx.\nIt is not entirely beyond possibility that there is an ancient chamber dating to the period of the carving/construction of the Sphinx or to later restoration efforts by Tutmose IV and later kings. Such a chamber(s) would likely be a foundation deposit - quite common for constructions of a religious nature in ancient Egypt.\n\n\nSee the following and links therein for a decent summary:\nhttp://www.catchpenny.org/chamber.html...
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Can I please see these photographs as well?\n\nI viewed your source, and the pre-Colombian gold artifacts do look like airplanes, and the heiroglyphics do look like helicopters and a blimp. I didn't see a source for a jet fighter on rock (you probably meant gold) or pictures of ancient astronauts, or a picture of the space station on a rock in Persopolis. If you have a chance and remember where you saw them, please add the links. I don't know why the gold sculptures look so much like airplanes; we know that airplanes didn't exist back then so do you think the sculptor had some sort of vision? The picture of the heiroglyphics did not elaborate on them at all... at this point, with the information you gave me, it seems to be a very long stretch. Very long.
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The latest in graphix design is called "The Egyptian Technology". Computer researchers are now exploring the depts of the pyramids to find out how the pharoah and his people came up with the 3-D option of making pyramids. However the martian government has now offended the researchers in this regard. The martians claimed that the pharoahs how are now in mars have opposed to the research because of the fact that it involves opening of the graves. The pharoahs believe that once the tombs are opened then they have to come back. They quite like the life in mars better than the life here in earth. Hence, the researchers have now takent he matter to the highest authority on earth, that is the UNO. The UN supreme court will now have to solve a dispute between the martians and the humans..\n\n\n---x--\nto answer your question - WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION!