When people try to go with the crowd around instead of thinking differently and critically all sanity will be lost!

A video showing the alien on the moon was posted by YouTube user Wowforreel and viewed more than two million times in less than a month. He figured out an irregularly shaped dark spot on Google Moon.
Sensationalism!
And the world went wild! Can't anybody think with sanity?
Yes, scientists can!
Alien on moon? Nasa scientist says figure in video is just dust. Aha!
According to NASA scientists, the image was taken by either the Apollo 15 or 17 manned missions to the moon in 1971 and 1972, respectively. "My best guess, is that something (dust, an eyelash, scratch on the negative) was on the film," Pix11 quoted a scientist as saying.

"Remember, this was in the pre-digital days when all sorts of nasty things could happen to film," he added.
Why the video went viral can be explained by a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia.

This is the brain's response to seeing faces and other significant objects in random stimulus.

And there is another story too: Earlier this year video footage appeared online that showed another lunar object that prompted speculation that aliens had made the Moon their home. The footage, which was also captured by an enthusiast using Google Moon, showed wedge-shaped craft with a distinct V-shape of bright lights inside a tiny crater on the moon's far side – 2 degrees and 34 minutes east and 22 degrees 42 minutes north, at the edge of Mare Moscoviense.

The images can also be seen using Google Earth, in a small corner of a high-resolution image that Google credits to JAXA, the Japanese space agency whose Kaguya spacecraft took the photo.

But a wider view of the same image shows that there are dozens of such 'craft'.

Experts at Arizona State University, who run the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, say the sightings are likely to be artifacts from the digital photography software.

Google stores multiple resolution image tiles, and uses a different set of tiles depend on how much you are zoomed in. High resolution tiles have filters applied to them to make them appear sharper. These sharpening filters can create distortions where light and dark regions meet – and can create the appearance of lights or objects that can be interested as shapes that indicate an alien presence on the Moon!

And another one: Alien hunters spot a 'coffin' on Mars and they want NASA to take a closer look at it

(ref 1) The 'coffin' was discovered by Will Farrar from WhatsUpintheSky37 as he trawled through a library of pictures sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity.

And now  people are 'finding' "Statue of Buddha" on Mars (2)!

Again scientists say thatseeing strange objects, such as a 'coffin' on Mars, is simple a case of pareidolia. This is a psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random places. It is a form of apophenia, which is when people see patterns or connections in unconnected data. There have been multiple occasions when people have claimed to see religious images and themes in unexpected places, especially the faces of religious figures. Many involve images of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the word Allah. For example, in September 2007 a callus on a tree resembled a monkey, leading believers in Singapore to pay homage to the Monkey god. Another famous instance was when Mary’s face was a grilled cheese sandwich. Images of Jesus have even been spotted inside the lid of a jar of Marmite and in a potato. And news papers here too report several such things . So this pareidolia can be observed everywhere on the planet.

And this week in Oct., 2015 we are encountering an interesting story.

Over the past couple of days, a raging debate has ensued on the internet over the reasons behind China’s mysterious ‘floating cityscape in the sky.’

Yes, you heard that right!

Videos taken by locals in the Chinese town of Foshan show a faint city amidst the clouds in the sky, triggering questions of whether it could possibly be an alien attack. The vision however lasted only a few minutes, disappearing soon after.

Even in the past, images and videos of mysterious apparitions have most often resulted in countless conspiracy theories over whether our planet was going to come under siege by extra-terrestrial beings. The Chinese ‘floating city’ was no different. And when something happens in China, some fingers are always pointed at the West, most notably America. One theory doing the rounds says the ‘city’ was part of holographic projections by the NASA to portend an invasion by aliens. Conspiracy theorists know well that an alien invasion combined with the secret hands of America is always a heady mix.

Fata Morgana - a type of mirage which distorts objects which are far away.

^{Floating city mirage over China}

But experts have weighed in, making it clear that the images of the city could well have been sparked by an optical illusion known as fata morgana — a mirage being created when ‘cold, dense air’ blends with an upward layer of warmer air. It’s essentially an optical illusion caused by specific weather conditions bending light rays. A scientist told the NGC that such a mirage is more likely to occur over water bodies, and has the capacity to trick our average brain into believing something when it actually maybe something else. So, that means different people at different locations would see the mirage differently.

Did you notice the difference between the thinking of ordinary people and the scientists/experts here? 

The training a scientist gets makes him/her go another way to understand things.
This is how it could be done:
A scientist sees the same picture as others do. But s/he thinks, "How is it possible that without us sending anybody to the moon when the picture was taken, a human figure can be spotted there?

With the huge distances and other limitations, there is very small possibility of aliens and UFO's  visiting our natural satellite too.

Definitely not possible.Therefore, these should be something else.
What else these could be? What could be the possible reasons for the appearance of these pictures?"
Then s/he tries to figure out what could have happened and come out with a most reasonable and possible explanation that could be nearer to facts and truth. And scientists then try to substantiate that with tests and confirmations!

Folks, instead of following the crowds blindly, try to think like a scientist does. And experience the difference and the confidence it brings in you!

References:

1. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2889885/Alien-hunter...

2. http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-exoplanets/buddha-statue...

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Updates:

Why the brain is programmed to see faces in everyday objects

If you tend to notice faces in inanimate objects around you like the scowling face of a house, a surprised bowling ball, or a grimacing apple, you're not alone.

'Face pareidolia' – the phenomenon of seeing faces in everyday objects—is a very human condition that relates to how our brains are wired. And now research from UNSW Sydney has shown we process these "fake" faces using the same visual mechanisms of the brain that we do for real ones.

But why does face pareidolia occur? According to experts to answer this question we need to look at what face perception involves. While human faces all look a bit different, they share common features, like the spatial arrangement of the eyes and the mouth.

This basic pattern of features that defines the human face is something that our brain is particularly attuned to, and is likely to be what draws our attention to pareidolia objects. But face perception isn't just about noticing the presence of a face. We also need to recognize who that person is, and read information from their face, like whether they are paying attention to us, and whether they are happy or upset."

This process relies on parts of our brains that are specialized to extract this type of information from what we see. If you are repeatedly shown pictures of faces that are looking towards your left, for example, your perception will actually change over time so that the faces will appear to be looking more rightwards than they really are. 

There is evidence that this reflects a kind of habituation process in the brain, where cells involved in detecting gaze direction change their sensitivity when we are repeatedly exposed to faces with a particular direction of gaze."

For example, people who were repeatedly exposed to faces that were looking to the left would, when presented with a face looking directly at them, say that the other's eyes were looking somewhat to the right. This phenomenon has been noted in past studies.

repeated exposure to pareidolia faces that conveyed a specific direction of attention (for example, objects that appeared to be 'looking towards the left') caused a change in the perception of where human faces are looking. 

This is evidence of overlap in the neural mechanisms that are active when we experience face pareidolia and when we look at human faces."

What this means, say the researchers, is if you feel like a pareidolia object is looking at you, or conveys some sort of emotion, "it may be because the features of the object are activating mechanisms in your brain that are designed to read that kind of information from human faces." face pareidolia is a kind of visual illusion. We know that the object doesn't really have a mind, but we can't help but see it as having mental characteristics like a 'direction of gaze' because of mechanisms in our visual system that become active when they detect an object with basic face-like features.

face pareidolia is a product of our evolution, noting that studies have observed the phenomenon among monkeys, suggesting the brain function has been inherited from primates.

"Our brain has evolved to facilitate social interaction, and this shapes the way that we see the world around us. There is an evolutionary advantage to being really good or really efficient at detecting faces, it's important to us socially. It's also important in detecting predators. So if you've evolved to be very good at detecting faces, this might then lead to false positives, where you sometimes see faces that aren't really there. Another way of putting this is that it's better to have a system that's overly sensitive to detecting faces, than one that is not sensitive enough." 

In addition to confirming how our brains process faces, the study could raise new questions about our understanding of cognitive disorders relating to facial recognition.

"Understanding face perception is important when you consider conditions or traits like face prosopagnosia, which is the inability to recognize faces, and the autism spectrum, which can include difficulties in reading information from other people's faces, such as their emotional state.

Source: Colin J. Palmer et al. Face Pareidolia Recruits Mechanisms for Detecting Human Social Attention, Psychological Science (2020). DOI: 10.1177/0956797620924814

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