# Bio Station Alpha **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 22, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380 "2013-04-22T04:50:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/21 "2013-04-22T14:43:44Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’m not clear on something, is there a monorail on one of Mars’ moons? Yes-It circles DisneyMarsWorld, traveling over Country Barsoom Jamboree, Ray Bradbury’s Island, and the Mission To Earth ride. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/22 "2013-04-22T14:49:06Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > sorry apparently it’s Buzz Aldrin, my mistake, i’ll make [it](http://youtu.be/Uvt0DnWg89Y) pretty, i’m bringing it back down in 20 mins just so you know… Really? REALLY? Cernan: Slip of the tongue Aldrin: Overly dramatic about [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_monolith) I may come to regret engaging you seriously on this, but are you telling me that video actuallgy suggests something sinister to you? Of all the actual, verifiable problems in the world THAT is what you spend your time on? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/23 "2013-04-22T15:20:55Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’m not clear on something, is there a monorail on one of Mars’ moons? A very common error. The pylons for a mass driver in-system propulsion system look a lot like a monorail from orbital distances. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/24 "2013-04-22T15:23:02Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > A very common error. The pylons for a mass driver in-system propulsion system look a lot like a monorail from orbital distances. Absolute nonsense. Why would DisneyMarsWorld have a mass driver in-system propulsion system? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/25 "2013-04-22T15:35:11Z")
Apparently you made the wrong choice, **shadowofneo.** Take the **other** pill. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/26 "2013-04-22T15:38:58Z")
So this is what happens when someone sticks the looking glass at the bottom of the rabbit hole. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/27 "2013-04-22T15:41:36Z")
Off with his thread! ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/28 "2013-04-22T15:49:45Z")
If it is called Alpha then it must be Greek. Possible the Spartans made it to space. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/29 "2013-04-22T17:17:42Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > Don’t they always “debunk”? Pfft. Anyone can “explain” things that are “unknown” with “research” and “facts”. That’s no fun. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/30 "2013-04-22T17:20:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Absolute nonsense. Why would DisneyMarsWorld have a mass driver in-system propulsion system? For the Main Street Radium Parade, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/31 "2013-04-22T17:26:04Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > For the Main Street Radium Parade, of course. I thought that was suspended after it was found out that the Mickey, Donald and Goofy running around the park weren’t people in costume. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/32 "2013-04-22T17:37:20Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > 1. hieroglyphs showing space battles and godly meetings > 2. Odd energy signatures and blast patterns all over the world > 3. Roswell > 4. Kennedy Assassination and alternate timeline hypotheses > 5. The Moon Landing > 6. Unexplained solar system phenomena (i.e. Saturn’s “portal”, Planet X/Nibiru, Pluto (formerly), The Sun and it’s Quirks as of late) > 7. Space Footage, in-station and out > 8. Armstrong’s Mars Macro-rail “Slip” > 9. General UFO sighting exponential increase > 10. Rogue "smart"cosmic bodies (i.e. The Jupiter mass comet strike, The DA14 Event) > 11. Bio-station Alpha/Delta/Gamma 1. I believe ketchup bottles should be 500% larger. 2. We are all responsible for heroes becoming terrible. 3. But what kind of jail are these alien prisoners being held in? 4. …and they’re backed by big corporations! 5. Animals can govern themselves. 6. Taken out of context it was EXACTLY what I meant. 7. As God as my witness, we will build casinos on the moon! Thank you! My work is done here. Vote Steve Austin, Independent Candidate for Congress from Rhode Island. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/33 "2013-04-22T17:40:11Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > My work is done here. Vote Steve Austin, Independent Candidate for Congress from Rhode Island. Goo goo ga ga! ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/34 "2013-04-22T19:10:22Z")
[Here](http://www.universetoday.com/86497/proof-bio-station-alpha-is-just-an-image-artifact/) is the first link if you click from image to Web: > [@](#): > > It’s time for another episode of “Conspiracy Theory of the Week.” This one involves a supposed secret space station on Mars. The You Tube video showing “Bio Station Alpha” (below) went viral and was even reported on some mainstream media outlets. The station is supposedly a 700 ft x 150 ft structure on Mars and by some accounts is colored white with blue and red stripes. It was found on Google Mars by an “armchair astronaut” and breathless conspiracy bloggers have touted this as the most important discovery on Mars yet, and “proof!” that NASA is hiding their activities. > > In reality, this is not a space station, a Mars base or any type of structure – created or natural — on the surface of the Red Planet. What shows up in this location on Google Mars is just a smattering of about 11 bad pixels from data dropout – a linear streak artifact likely caused by a cosmic ray hitting the Mars Express spacecraft while it was taking the image – and then that smudge has been badly distorted through image processing when it became part of Google Mars. > > “This looks like a cosmic ray hit,” said Tanya Harrison, planetary scientist on the science operations team for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context Camera (CTX) and Mars Color Imager (MARCI) at Malin Space Science Systems. “We see these from time to time in the MARCI data from MRO.” > > Read more: [http://www.universetoday.com/86497/proof-bio-station-alpha-is-just-an-image-artifact/#ixzz2RDhlyA95](http://www.universetoday.com/86497/proof-bio-station-alpha-is-just-an-image-artifact/#ixzz2RDhlyA95) > [@](#): > > What’s the deal? Image Fragment/Artifact? I’m sure most of you know by now there is more going on up there than meets the eye or choose some other detection method, however this is what we know/suspect. Well, you almost have it right…it’s an ‘image artifact’. > [@](#): > > 1. hieroglyphs showing space battles and godly meetings Chariots of the Gods, or the ‘new’ Ancient Aliens show? 😛 Love the guy with the wild hair…he’s the whole reason I watch. > [@](#): > > 1. Odd energy signatures and blast patterns all over the world Yeah, those humans…what are you going to do? They build these things called ‘power plants’ that certainly have ‘odd’ energy signatures. They mine stuff too, which is pretty odd. > [@](#): > > 1. Roswell Been there numerous times. Love the alien flying saucer sticking out of the McD’s and the alien museum. This ridiculous story has done quite a bit for what is basically a sleepy little podunk New Mexican rural town. They even have Alien Ale there, though it probably sounds better than it is. There IS a Rib Crib in town though that I enjoy going to when I’m there…love the wings. > [@](#): > > 1. Kennedy Assassination and alternate timeline hypotheses Um…ok. Can’t even make a good joke out of this one, it’s too bizarre. I mean, I’m sure this is English but the words don’t seem to go together correctly. Bad Babblefish translation? > [@](#): > > 1. The Moon Landing Watched it live when I was 9…quite something really. Great achievement in human history, though sadly we stopped going and never followed up with more manned exploration of the solar system. Did I tell you about the great wings at Rib Crib in Roswell? Very yummy. > [@](#): > > 1. Unexplained solar system phenomena (i.e. Saturn’s “portal”, Planet X/Nibiru, Pluto (formerly), The Sun and it’s Quirks as of late) Are there any rabid mutant space weasels there? > [@](#): > > 1. Space Footage, in-station and out Quite spectacular, I agree. > [@](#): > > 1. Armstrong’s Mars Macro-rail “Slip” I wouldn’t mention your seeming doubt about the moon landings to him face to face if I were you…nor his ‘Mars Macro-rail “Slip”’, whatever that is. He might punch you in the nose and steal your favorite girl…and you don’t even what to know what he’d do to your rabid mutant space weasel. > [@](#): > > 1. General UFO sighting exponential increase Are you sure it’s exponential? Maybe it’s merely logarithmic? Or maybe it’s allegoric? Rhetorical? Alliterative? How about Dubious Anecdotal? > [@](#): > > 1. Rogue "smart"cosmic bodies (i.e. The Jupiter mass comet strike, The DA14 Event) Those are related to rogue elephants, right? > [@](#): > > 1. Bio-station Alpha/Delta/Gamma I think it’s actually Alpha-Beta Base Station Epsilon Gamma Tria. ---
**Author:** ![PacifistPorcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PacifistPorcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PacifistPorcupine)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/35 "2013-04-22T19:12:10Z")
> [@shadowofneo](#): > > in an alternate time line to ours kennedy isn’t assassinated, which prompts cuba to fire sooner. thinking alien technology was being exploited (and was/is), earth barely makes it past 1975. i’m sure you can see why i can’t offer much proof, but after a public speech over full alien disclosure everyone goes crazy basically over relgious beliefs, which is odd because that discovery would vindicate all religions How did you (or anyone) discover any information about this “alternate timeline?” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/36 "2013-04-22T19:22:33Z")
[BTW, if it matters . . .](http://www.universetoday.com/86497/proof-bio-station-alpha-is-just-an-image-artifact/) > [@](#): > > It’s time for another episode of “Conspiracy Theory of the Week.” This one involves a supposed secret space station on Mars. The You Tube video showing “Bio Station Alpha” (below) went viral and was even reported on some mainstream media outlets. The station is supposedly a 700 ft x 150 ft structure on Mars and by some accounts is colored white with blue and red stripes. It was found on Google Mars by an “armchair astronaut” and breathless conspiracy bloggers have touted this as the most important discovery on Mars yet, and “proof!” that NASA is hiding their activities. > > In reality, this is not a space station, a Mars base or any type of structure – created or natural — on the surface of the Red Planet. What shows up in this location on Google Mars is just a smattering of about 11 bad pixels from data dropout – a linear streak artifact likely caused by a cosmic ray hitting the Mars Express spacecraft while it was taking the image – and then that smudge has been badly distorted through image processing when it became part of Google Mars. > > “This looks like a cosmic ray hit,” said Tanya Harrison, planetary scientist on the science operations team for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context Camera (CTX) and Mars Color Imager (MARCI) at Malin Space Science Systems. “We see these from time to time in the MARCI data from MRO.” And that’s from 2011. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/37 "2013-04-22T20:02:43Z")
> [@XT](#): > > I think it’s actually Alpha-Beta Base Station Epsilon Gamma Tria. And I hear they have an awesome space-beer pong table. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > “This looks like a cosmic ray hit,” said Tanya Harrison, planetary scientist… Cosmic ray hit? Come on! First of all, they’re just saying that because “interference from a weather balloon in orbit around Mars” isn’t remotely plausible. Second of all, I don’t even think there’s such a thing as a “cosmic ray hit.” It sounds totally made up. I’ll bet this “planetary scientist” (ha!) would measure the strength of the “cosmic ray hit” at 1.21 gigawatts. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/38 "2013-04-22T21:13:08Z")
Wait, we faked the moon landing, but not only have we been to Mars, we have a base there that we’re not telling anyone about? Gotcha. Also, I noticed your list made no mention of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. Yeah, that’d be just crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/39 "2013-04-22T21:22:36Z")
I find these cover-up theories funny. NASA covering up information that would make them the highest funded agency ever? Sure, that’s pretty likely. Obviously, wish-fulfillment desire is overriding common sense. I admit I miss my younger days when I would consider these things possible, and the sense of wonder that came with it. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380/40 "2013-04-22T21:26:59Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Wait, we faked the moon landing, but not only have we been to Mars, we have a base there that we’re not telling anyone about? The moon landing soundstage was on the Mars base. It’s all true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bio-station-alpha/656380.md?page=3)