Anomalous Martian anomalies

I have to wonder, sometimes, what's running through some people's heads.

For example, you see a picture, a famous picture, or at least one that thousands of people have seen. You see something in it no one else has noticed. It's incredibly obvious, and in fact revolutionary. Incredibly, you realize that you're seeing not just one amazing thing in this picture, but dozens! It'll change mankind as we know it! You tell people, but no one believes you, no matter what you do, and no matter how obvious the picture is.

At what point do you think, hey, I wonder if just maybe I'm the one who's wrong?

If you're Andrew D. Basiago, the answer is "never".

Mr. Basiago is the founder and president of the Mars Anomaly Research Society, where he digs through pictures of Mars and looks for anything he doesn't understand, which he then claims is evidence of life on the Red Planet. He evidently has met with some resistance to his claims, because he was forced to send out a press release, which Yahoo! dutifully published. In it, he's trying to convince the National Geographic Society to publish his nonsense. Reading it is funny, if a little sad:

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