# Fun with pareidolia
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 12, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416 "2019-02-12T18:48:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/1 "2019-02-12T18:48:50Z")
_Spuddy Ducky, you’re the one
You make mealtimes so much fun
[Spuddy Ducky](https://photos.app.goo.gl/4E9K5sYXsb2zBQKfA), you’re all fulla starch, it’s true…_
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### Author:  [@Hapax\_Legomenon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hapax_Legomenon)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/2 "2019-02-12T18:51:56Z")
Aaaah! It’s looking right at us!
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/3 "2019-02-12T19:18:01Z")
Every year for the past few years I’ve been on a Bad Science of the Year discussion panel at the Arisia science fiction convention (it was ditched his year, however). One of my contributions every years **Things Found on Mars**. There’s no end to the pariedolia-inspired weirdness that True Believers with too much time on their hands have turned up in hours of perusing the NASA images taken on the Martian surface. I’m not at home with my files right now, but I’ll send some tonight.
Here’s one example:
[https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi1rdC49LbgAhXCo1kKHUZNBIsQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoolinterestingstuff.com%2Fstrange-things-found-on-mars&psig=AOvVaw3KXsGvreH9iUk3mQJZoeUc&ust=1550085373075534](https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi1rdC49LbgAhXCo1kKHUZNBIsQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcoolinterestingstuff.com%2Fstrange-things-found-on-mars&psig=AOvVaw3KXsGvreH9iUk3mQJZoeUc&ust=1550085373075534)
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### Author:  [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/4 "2019-02-12T20:37:07Z")
One of the things that made The Orange One’s State of the Union speech more bearable was seeing the [faces in the shadows of the flag](https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/editorial/2019/02/05/105721768-1549423960394gettyimages-1094206498.1910x1000.jpeg) behind him. If you click on the link and dim your screen a little you might spot more than when it’s brighter. I particularly like the one near the edge of the flag.
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### Author:  [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/5 "2019-02-12T20:42:14Z")
Thanks for that link, CalMeacham. Mars has some cool stuff!
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/6 "2019-02-12T23:46:57Z")
Here are some “Things Found on Mars” that I intended to use this year
The WArrior Woman of Mars
> **[Alien hunters think they found a ‘Warrior Woman’ statue on Mars](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/alien-hunters-think-found-warrior-woman-statue-mars-143848421.html)**
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> You know how when you stare at clouds long enough you begin to see shapes and objects and figures that aren't really there? What you're experiencing is your brain trying to match up the shapeless blobs with things it knows exist, and if you stare...
Two Aliens on Mars (also has the Pig Statue of Mars and the Mars Pot with the Lid Ajar)
> **[Two Alien Figures On Surface Of Mars In NASA Photo! Jan 11, 2018, UFO...](https://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2018/01/two-alien-figures-on-surface-of-mars-in.html)**
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> UFO Sighting Latest News, Photos, Video.
The Duct Tape of Mars
> **[Astro Bob](https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/lifestyle/astro-bob)**
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> Bob King's 'Astro Bob' is astronomy for everyone. Mars, Milky Way, Northern Lights, constellations, star gazing and much more.
And, even though it’s not on Mars – The DEATH COMET!!!
> **[The "Death Comet" Will Pass By Earth Just After Halloween](https://www.universetoday.com/140108/the-death-comet-will-pass-by-earth-just-after-halloween/)**
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> The mysterious "Death Comet" which flew past Earth in 2015 is coming around again, and will once again pass Earth safely on November 11th.
> **[Skull Asteroid TB145 WARNING: 'Death Comet' barrelling towards Earth](https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1024237/Skull-Asteroid-TB145-death-comet-Earth-approach-Halloween)**
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> THE skull-shaped “Death Comet” Asteroid TB145 will fly past Earth just days after Halloween, astronomers have revealed.
Actually, the image is an “Artist’s Representation” of a more nebulous photo. The artist took considerable liberties with reality, as the following show:
[https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/blogs/news/skull-shaped-dead-comet-to-flyby-earth](https://www.deathwishcoffee.com/blogs/news/skull-shaped-dead-comet-to-flyby-earth)
> **[Spooky Skull-Like 'Death Comet' To Zip Past Earth Just After Halloween](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/skull-asteroid-death-comet-halloween_n_5bac637be4b082030e782564)**
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> It's also been called "The Great Pumpkin" asteroid.
> **[Skull-Shaped Asteroid Won't Pass Earth at Halloween](https://www.newsweek.com/halloween-skull-shaped-asteroid-2015-tb145-dead-comet-1145595)**
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> Dead comet TB145 is now expected to fly past Earth on November 11.
That’s why this is perfect for “The Year in Bad Science”
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### Author:  [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/7 "2019-02-13T03:20:56Z")
There’s a graffiti fad called [eyebombing](https://www.google.com/search?q=eyebombing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTgbOU4LfgAhVKnOAKHfG4BBsQ_AUIDigB&biw=1366&bih=636) that takes advantage of pareidolia.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/8 "2019-02-14T01:45:18Z")
> [@MrKnowItAll](#):
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> There’s a graffiti fad called [eyebombing](https://www.google.com/search?q=eyebombing&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTgbOU4LfgAhVKnOAKHfG4BBsQ_AUIDigB&biw=1366&bih=636) that takes advantage of pareidolia.
I’ve been doing that for years: i had no idea it was a thing that other people did too or that it had a name.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/9 "2019-02-14T02:18:34Z")
Chester Cheetah would be all over this.
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### Author:  [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-pareidolia/829416/10 "2019-02-14T04:14:20Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Chester Cheetah would be all over this.
I was thinking Mr. Potato[sub] conjoined [/sub]Head.