BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart

Subject: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: bobad
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:06 PM

A large (225 meters) face of an Aztec looking native was spotted by Google earth in Alberta. It appears to have an I-Pod earbud stuck in it's ear but it is actually a road leading to a gas well.

Check it out: http://www.dvhardware.net/article14548.html

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:19 PM

Anyone else see the big nosed crone behind and above him, facing the other way?

It's amazing what these features will throw up... and no two people will get the same picture.

I still reckon that's an earpiece though... perhaps he's the FBI Liason?!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:31 PM

Hey - that's no Native American; that's a Native Canadian. Next thing Canada Geese are going to be America Geese ...

(By the way Liz - there's a rather politically-incorrect pun at the end of your message - let's see if any western-Canadian catters pick it up. Let's just say that he's one FBI all right).

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: John O'L
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:42 PM

I see two faces and a spider, but then I see faces and spiders everywhere...

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:42 PM

It look like Inca or something....

Now it's just a matter of time before someone finds a Madonna or Jesus, and the price of real estate skyrockets somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:46 PM

Don't worry; the price of that piece of real estate has been doing nothing but skyrocketing for the last ten years. We're talking oil - black gold, Texas tea.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 07:49 PM

Definitely a Seminole headdress. What the hell is a Seminole doing in Canada? Probably listening to Roxy Music on his I-Pod and made a wrong turn at Waycross Georgia.

"Oh Prairie Rose, how happy I would be

Lonesome Star, shine on the Big Country"

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:14 PM

Now that knocks the Mars face into a cocked hat! This one isn't going to vanish by switching the angle you look at slightly. And there's a couple of other faces in there, if you move slightly out and pan over to the left.

Try doing it it here.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:21 PM

FBI: I first heard that when I lived on a Reserve in Alberta. I'm Canuck. Don't assume it originated in the USA.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 08:32 PM

Um ... who made that assumption?

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 09:02 PM

Obviously space gods came in their chariots and taught the early Canadians how to make faces so that they could make ads for the early Aztec deities. This one is for Qitaxholinim, Aztec god (or perhaps goddess) of puce.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 09:19 PM

That reminds me of a picture I have in my possession. A friend and I had taken a day-excursion boat to Tracy Arm, a glacer-choked fjord a few miles south of Juneau. The boat lingered long at South Sawyer Glacier.

Suddenly I saw an unmistakable face in the mass. My camera's battery was low so I got my friend to snap it.

When I got the picture from her a few days later I took it to a camera shop and enhanced the image (without altering outlines).

It is a brooding Native American face. The head is clothed in a fur-lined parka hood. It is really quite remarkable.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 09:33 PM

I think it looks a lot like Kalija - you know, the one Hank Williams wrote about.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: dianavan
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 09:52 PM

I see a very well proportioned, human being with a lovely neck and shoulders, surrounded by vegetation. What some see as a crone, I see as a large leaf.

This certainly beats the shroud of Turin and so-called images of Mary.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: wysiwyg
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 10:36 PM

It's a new hockey prospect from the Incas' junior team.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 10:51 PM

How about starting a story that incorporates these images and explains or expands on how he/they got in there? Certainly would not be anything new in Native American myths.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:07 PM

"there's a rather politically-incorrect pun at the end of your message - let's see if any western-Canadian catters pick it up"

Sorry. I think maybe I misunderstood that remark. No offense.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Lighter
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:14 PM

Proof that Native Americans live on Earth.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:46 PM

Very kewl, thanks for the link!

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: dianavan
Date: 26 Oct 06 - 11:55 PM

The First Nations People of Canada prefer to be identified by the name of their tribal associates or a specific band (although this is not quite right, either). To be safe, they are usually called Aboriginal. Thats why its a bit strange to call the image found in Alberta, Native American.

To be fair, most Aboriginal people do not recognize political boundaries so why try to attribute the image to a specific nationality or that it is anything other than an image of a human being?

A beautiful image of an ancient ancestor.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:00 AM

Peace - No offence (to give it, strictly speaking, the Canadian spelling) taken; I realized you didn't quite get what I was saying. I figured, as you've no doubt deduced, that it would probably only be western Canuckians who would be familiar with the acronym in question, not that western Canadians would be baffled by it.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:14 AM

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the term "Native American", but I think to many Canadians it has an old-fashioned, even quaint ring. As dianavan says, it comes across as "strange" (to us) in this context. Just one o' those things.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 02:27 AM

In the US we still say Native American- wish we would switch to 'First Nation'. Seems more respectful somehow, and certainly more accurate.

Oddly, in Alaska we say 'Native Alaskan' for the aboriginal people here, reserving Native American for people much farther south. Odd, because in a meeting we would say something like, "Any Native Americans or Native Alaskans here tonight?"

At the same time we whites can be second or third generation Alaskans here but that would come under a different heading; we might say 'born Alaskan' or 'long time Alaskan' or something like that. "Native Alaskan" has a specific meaning.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 02:33 AM

I'm still confused by the FBI thing... is it no longer the Fed Bureau of Interferring?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: kendall
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 07:51 AM

It looks more like the Egyptian Pharoe, Akenaten to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:02 AM

Akenaten Atomato...

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: 3refs
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:12 AM

"It's a new hockey prospect from the Incas' junior team."
Must be going to the Leafs. They play like their dead!

It's Native North American!

Full Blooded Indian!

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: 3refs
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:21 AM

BTW!

My heritage is Mi'kmaq(Micmac)from Newfoundland!

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Beer
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:46 AM

3refs.
Was there this past summer for 8 days. Best 8 days of my life. I think the picture came from there. Where else can you find good rock and rock music.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:59 AM

Funny. The folks who live on the Reservations (and I know a lot of them) prefer the title "Indians." Better, they prefer the titles "Apache" or "Potawattomi" or "Objiway" or "Shoshone" and even better, "Lemhi Shoshone" or "Citizen Potawattomi". I've been told several times "Call me an Indian. Anyone born here is a 'Native American.'" And they associate "aboriginal" with "extremely primitive naked people living off long-dead rabbits" (that's what I was told).

An archealogist of the Mountain Ute also pointed out that since humans evolved (as far as we know) in Africa, we're ALL immigrants. He would also like Colorado back....

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:06 AM

Under the circumstances, we better let 3refs' explanation of the acronym stand: Full Blooded Indian. That'll do!

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 10:18 AM

There's always room for discussion. And odd as it may seem, people aren't always "expert" in the things they are part of. Any of you know the whole history of your ancestry, of where your family came from? There is always room for discussion. Being a member can give more standing, but doen't trump other educated opinions.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: greg stephens
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 10:32 AM

I'm surprised nobody has raised the rather obvious question: was the photograph a little bit enhanced, perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 10:43 AM

Welcome, 3refs!

Mitakuye Oyasin,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:05 AM

nope, greg....I looked at it, and it ain't enhanced at all. That's what is there!..

By the way...if you put the long,lat numbers in, be SURE to put a comma between them...G. Earth will get bewildered & crash if you don't.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:38 AM

"The First Nations People of Canada prefer to be identified by the name of their tribal associates or a specific band"

Not necessarily. The Cree with whom I lived and worked preferred to be called Indians. That from the Chief, Band Council, etc. The 'First Nations' stuff is mostly political, and aboriginal wasn't a term they liked.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Paul Burke
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:43 AM

I think they should call themselves Aboriginal Sub-Arctic North Americans, or Asana, which has a nice warm cuddly ethnic feel to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:46 AM

Actually, I think we ought to call them "people."

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:50 AM

Hear, hear Rapaire.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 11:52 AM

In fact, don't most tribal names translate as "The people"?

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:07 PM

No need to type in the latitude and longtitude - that last link I gave takes you there, and you can go in closer, or move out and see the neighbourhood, including the other "faces". Here is the link again

And if it's enhanced, it must be enhanced on the ground itself, rather than in the computer, because those are satellite pictures on Google Maps.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Big Mick
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:08 PM

Strictly speaking, Canadians are every bit as American as I am. The country I live in isn't America. I live in the United States of America. I have always disliked the way the term is applied.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:27 PM

"The Cree with whom I lived and worked preferred to be called Indians. That from the Chief, Band Council, etc. The 'First Nations' stuff is mostly political, and aboriginal wasn't a term they liked."

On the other hand, I once had a student who identified herself in an essay as "an Abriginal First Nations Cree Candian". It was an ideal occasion for an impromptu lesson in redundancy, what it is and how to avoid it.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 12:38 PM

According to a geologist on the CBC last night, the area is not one of mountains, but of washed out gullies. Our brains are perceiving the face as a mound, at least mine is, when it is actually a depression. Enjoy it while it lasts, it apparently looks very different depending on the angle of the sun and will be gone with further erosion from flash floods.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 01:04 PM

"an Abriginal First Nations Cree Candian" - She could have given me a lesson in spelling - that should read "Aboriginal" and "Canadian".

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 03:14 PM

that was the 'abriged' version.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 04:16 PM

Yikes!

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: greg stephens
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 05:18 PM

OK. so they haven't tweaked the picture. I still think it's too good. Maybe somebody's been up there with a bucket and spade?

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 08:58 PM

That's a pretty big face to tweak - 225 metres across. And you'd really need to have someone up there in a balloon with a mobile phone or something to tell you what to do.

Seems much more likely it's just a chance thing - as I suggested, go to that site and back off a bit, and there are plenty of other features, some almost as striking.

It's a big world, and there 's room in it for just about every unlikely thing to turn up.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 27 Oct 06 - 09:19 PM

You mean there's still a chance I'll come across that Argyle sock that disappeared in the laundromat back in '78? I don't know how many times I've almost made a puppet out of its mate, but something always stopped me, just kind of a feeling that just maybe ...

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:23 AM

Argyle socks deserve to disappear.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:32 AM

Maybe the socks are with their friends here . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:45 AM

"Argyle socks deserve to disappear."

Easy for you to say - you're not the one walking around like Wee Willie Winkie with one sock off and one sock on.

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 12:51 AM

LOLOL

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 01:28 AM

It wasn't Wee Willie Winkie - he ran around with his nightshirt on.

You're thinking of Diddle Diddle Dumpling my son John, he who proceeded to his sleeping place without first removing his outer leg wear and omitting to displace one knitted foot covering.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: Peace
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 01:29 AM

Have you checked your wee willie winkie for the other sock?

Subject: RE: BS: Huge Native American Face On Google Eart
From: GUEST,memyself
Date: 28 Oct 06 - 02:05 AM

"It wasn't Wee Willie Winkie - he ran around with his nightshirt on."

A nightshirt? Luxury!


"Have you checked your wee willie winkie for the other sock? "

Must be thinking of the North Atlantic Squadron: In days of old, when knights were bold,/And safes were not invented,/They wrapped old socks around something something,/And babies were prevented.

I can't for the life of me remember what they wrapped but it must rhyme with "socks".