-Caveat Lector- ------------------------------------------------------------ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Electric Warrior: News December 29, 2000 http://www.electricwarrior.com/news/ewNews0004.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ McDANIEL LEAVES MARS CYDONIA RESEARCH On the eve of the new Millennium, Professor Stanley McDaniel, best known for his support of the theory of an artificial face on the surface of Mars, has left Cydonia research behind, with an uncompromising statement regarding the Face and other objects in the region: "The question of possible artificiality remains open." In a special message for The McDaniel Report Newsletter Website, McDaniel gave a sweeping history encompassing six years of research, "We have seen accelerated research, new discoveries, communication with NASA and then a return to NASA's previous recalcitrance, and finally, with the Mars Global Surveyor, new data." McDaniel is highly regarded among Mars Cydonia researchers for his 1993 'The McDaniel Report', a comprehensive study that critiques NASA's failure to evaluate highly qualified, but independent research, about unusual phenomenon photographed by Viking Orbiter missions to Mars. McDaniel founded the Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) on the assumption that it was just as reasonable to search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence inside our solar system, as it was to search for evidence outside it, via SETI. SPSR members sought to bring investigation of Martian anomalies into the scientific mainstream. SPSR's efforts resulted in a November 1997 meeting with NASA, subsequently hailed on McDaniel's Website as a communications breakthrough, breaking the news to a booming Internet Mars Cydonia subculture that NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, already orbiting Mars, would be taking images of the Face. "The meeting with Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR) scientists that November seemed to constitute a tentative recognition by NASA of the scientific legitimacy of the Cydonia question," wrote McDaniel, in an editorial commentary, 'The Cydonia Question: Where Do We Stand?' By that time, a notoriously distorted 1998 image of the Face had reduced public perception of the phenomenon to being nothing but a pile of rocks. Undaunted, McDaniel pointed to statements by Dr. Carl Sagan, who said the hypothesis that certain structures at Cydonia may be artificial is falsifiable. Sagan's argument seemed to bring the issue into the scientific arena. As early as 1980, Sagan had argued in favor of a tolerance for ambiguity regarding the question of life on Mars, in his book 'Cosmos', "There seem to be many people who simply wish to be told an answer, any answer, and thereby avoid the burden of keeping two mutually exclusive possibilities in their heads at the same time." Among Cydonia researchers, Stanley McDaniel seemed to appreciate that scientific ambiguity, alluding to it in a lecture delivered to the community of Harpenden, England: "All there has to be is the fact that it is a Face, and we do not know for sure what is its origin. That is sufficient to send many messages from Mars to Earth." ------------------------------------------------------------ RELATED STORIES A special message from Professor Stanley V. McDaniel http://www.mcdanielreport.com The Internet's first high scale composite of Mars Cydonia http://www.electricwarrior.com/img/ewCydonia2000.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------ THE ELECTRIC WARRIOR December 29, 2000 Silicon Valley, CA http://www.electricwarrior.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Permission is granted to reproduce or redistribute this article or any portion thereof, provided The Electric Warrior is cited as the source. 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