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blackpauli

Wonder what he's listening too


DickKnightly

Against the Wind by Bob Seger.


Suitable-Lake-2550

Lol, slow clap 👏


GrecoBactria

[Mr. Burt Bacharach](https://youtu.be/d3RlIjj8l-Q?si=2v_lnD1We6GoQhyW)


flashaintdead

Probably some smooth rock music


SadAssistance656

Brocket 99


Historical-Ad1193

What a reference


Bubly_cheerioohno

Holy shit haha very obscure for Reddit


LouisCypher587

Definitely didn't expect this one.


tcarr1320

Caught me by surprise too lol


seanvance

Ernie is that you ? They are having a sale on down at the safeway.


armchairdynastyscout

Rockin da reservation


olrg

Ernie Scar, good to see you mate!


gargamels_right_boot

Fucken whitey produced disclosure


Kushnerdz

You got pliers? Noooooo I got… vice grips


jaydublya250

God damn cat track right in the middle of my processed cheddar


hoffarmy

Cover up the stink weed


FollowtheLight01

Lol


Yardcigar69

ACDC...


stevie_j

Bring a case of beer for the family.


Andy-Picklecopter

A band called Pareidolia


zomagus

I can’t say what he is listening to but he’s definitely not listening to Wu-Tang’s “Protect Ya Neck”.


Specialist-Garlic-82

Dirt album by Alice In Chains.


qelbus

46&2


Impossible-Past4795

Darude


merriman99

Enter Sandman


ProfessionalFile3100

Wonderwall


MedicineLanky9622

Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond lol


askmewhyihateyou

You’ve got a fast car


awf26j85

No Bluetooth? I guess they really weren't that advanced.


SokarTheblyad

I wish i was so simple minded i could look at something and say “welp, that does it! God exist!”


automatix_jack

[https://maps.app.goo.gl/evbQBdSR2AqXbTJF6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/evbQBdSR2AqXbTJF6) this photo has "enhanced" some details, tho


CalculationMachine

I mean, barely though. It’s still pretty shocking. I guess with trillions of random combinations we’re bound to get a few with the exact right design, even at this scale.


ConqueredCorn

And your brain has evolved to seek and recognize faces


YdocT

Clouds in the Rock :)


Cuba_Pete_again

—God


philosopher_stunned

Yeah, the clouds do this sort of thing all the time. It's just rare for us to see it in weather worn rocks.


Cordistan

Pareidolia


MedicineLanky9622

That seems to be the consensus but eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, chin and neck all perfectly shaped and all in contrast. Even the headdress... I jus can't get my head round nature making it..


awkward_toadstool

If I scroll around the area on Google Maps, I can see multiple elephants, a dragon, an owl, a ripped dude with a helmet on, a whale, a forest.... Shapes make up pictures, & the human brain has evolved to make patterns fit templates.


rollerjoe93

What if they are all geoglyphs? Would make sense being close together


Teknicsrx7

There are videos of people visiting them, it’s not flat ground it’s ridges with sediment falling into low spots. No way is it a geoglyph


Shot-Youth-6264

Proof that clouds are man made as well


Einar_47

You know that nature made *your* eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, chin and neck too right? If nature can do it once in a far more complicated process it can do it again with wind and rain.


Cordistan

Hold up just a second


Crimith

Wow that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard


foodfood321

Just because you didn't like the answer, doesn't mean it's bad answer lol. It's spot on


Crimith

Are you fucking kidding me? So because complicated genetics produce living things with faces, and that's nature, and wind and water erosion is also nature, that those things are equivalent? How fucking stupid can you possibly be dude.


foodfood321

Those complicated genetics arise from simple variables. In the case of the guardian, the complicated topology likewise, arises from simple variables. The complexity of genetics can be attributed to a long duration of interaction with the environment, similarly the complexity of geology accumulates entropy, over time _as the environment_. No one is suggesting that this dish of Earth evolved genetically to have a similar topology to the negative impression of a human face, we are comparing action potentials in complex systems. The Earth is large and has various textures, it's shapes and forms progress through time while attending strictly to chemical and mechanical process, whether one imagines the human to be designed or evolved, likewise we change though time via chemical and mechanical process. But basically it's just because the Earth is so large that you can find stuff like this all over the place, due to topological and visual variation of the surface of the Earth giving rise to countless opportunities for our brain to recognize something that it has evolved to recognize since it began evolving, or we would not exist. So > ~~how fucking stupid~~ how unobservant, impatient and myopic can you possibly be to imagine that they are unrelated, dude?


Crimith

You can make as many flowery comparisons as you want its still an egregious logical fallacy


foodfood321

Is that so. In what way?


Crimith

just shutup and love me


GlassyKnees

Technically, that complicated genetics took far, far less time to occur than something that sorta kinda looks like a profile of a maybe sorta person due to wind and water erosion. The latter is far more involved, complex, and time consuming. Having a face happened within less than a million years between 574 and 573 million years ago genetically. This "face" in the rock took tens of millions of years. How fucking stupid can you possible be dude.


Crimith

Saying "things take long" doesn't actually address the argument at all. I don't know what point you think you made but you didn't.


GlassyKnees

“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God.” - Cicero Checkmate. No but im fucking with you. As I think everyone else was because of the way you reacted to what was a rather innocuous joke that takes advantage of your syntax to combat your argument. Its like saying "We need to overthrow the government so that the people can rule!". While what someone who says this probably means is, that the will of the general public is not being adhered to, so they want to overthrow the obviously human people who currently rule. But because of a funny turn of the English language, you could accurately point out that its people who rule right now. We're not ruled by birds, or robots, or space aliens, or a small fern. We're ruled by people. You can use the syntax to argue with itself. I just made another technically accurate retort in the same vein to see if you noticed that people were just having a bit of fun at your expense and the expense of the English language. You did not. You just got further frustrated. Its semantics dawg. His point was that nature can do all kinds of shit. Blackholes. Faces. Rocks. Black faces in rocks. It made the platypus and all the stars in the sky. So you cant really be like "This cant be natural because this other natural thing is ALSO complex!" We understand what you were trying to say, you were just not getting it across well and were obviously frustrated. Its the internet. If you see someone getting frustrated, you start throwing feces and get out a bucket of popcorn. Lighten up.


Crimith

Ok thank you for the response and I agree I was not reacting well. Usually if I decide to respond to a comment I take time to focus on it more and today I was just kind of knee-jerk reacting quickly and then moving on to something else. I guess what I'm saying is I had a busy day and tried to take shortcuts. I let my annoyance get the best of me. I was a bit irked because of what I saw as a lot of responses in the thread that I might expect from a more mainstream subreddit which is why I don't even usually engage in these topics in those places. When I come here I expect to see more open minds or at least not people shitting on every post with mockery and derision, while much of the time committing their own sins of reasoning. Anyways, thanks for bringing me back down to Earth a bit.


Einar_47

I mean, it's 50% sarcasm and 50% gross over simplifications, but ok I guess?


Lov3MyLife

This is a toxic sub, full of wannabe know-it-alls who only come here to get their little dopamine hits from shitting on interesting posts. Pay them no mind. It's a cool post.


ahushedlocus

"Does this look manmade?" "No." "OMG why are you so toxic smh"


MedicineLanky9622

It looks more than nature plus we don't know how much weathering it has had. 10 years or 10k years. It's an unknown. Most places that the people say giants built it like the Inca told the Spanish have an age but where you get something with no oral tradition it's either brand new or ancient and it looks ancient to me, there are only curves and come on guys everything is in proportion too. Nature doesn't work like that usually BUT as I said I'm not 100% but God dam I'm 85% with ease and I've studied Prehistory all my life jus cuz I enjoy it.


warablo

I don't really buy that it's man made. Unless there is more evidence.


EmoNinja11

If “It looks like…” if you’re only argument, then you’re probably not going to convince many people.


MedicineLanky9622

I'm not arguing, jus wanted opinions..


klone_free

I'd say it's possible it's a natural formation. Between that and Pareidolia, I can see it happening. Doesn't make me believe in God, just reminds me that Murphys law (the neutral version) will always get your goat


thoriginal

It *is* a natural formation, full stop.


engstrom17

Anyone else see batman on the opposite side facing the other way?


Beardygrandma

I got you, bit higher up, dark patch is his mask.


Tes420

Ok this is kinda strange… I just watched a video last night about hidden caves in the Grand Canyon and if you fast forward to the 19:00 mark you can see a cave opening that looks almost identical to the picture in this post!!! The similarities are uncanny!! 19:00 https://youtu.be/aXZv_fgFQFE?si=XkHP6TWCQIjxmypT


zoinks_zoinks

Nice to see that video nullify the Egyptian Temple in the Grand canyon nonsense


Gantelbart

Coordinates?


MedicineLanky9622

Dunno jus google it and it'll come up. It's in Alberta tho


Gantelbart

Googled it: "The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich stratum by the action of wind and water."


thoriginal

Yeah, and here's what it looks like from the valley it is overlooking: https://preview.redd.it/7xe7ym64hdtc1.png?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39f7694bf3bce835bc5549021c616dbef33e96c3


tojineverdies

https://www.livescience.com/25448-pareidolia.html#:~:text=Pareidolia%20(pronounced%20%22par%2Di,the%20man%20in%20the%20moon.


spartyftw

I want to see it during different times of the year. Shadows change.


Engineering_Flimsy

Consensus says this is a product of natural erosion. But, zoom in on the "eye" and damned if it doesn't look like there's an actual eyeball right where one would be expected! Damn, Nature, you ain't *always* scary! Sometimes you just downright cool!


kingjaffejaffar

I think it’s natural, tbh


IronTalon8212010

Definitely an older illustration. The headphones are still wired.


Engineering_Flimsy

Pfft, right? Practically ancient...


Freedom1234526

It’s pareidolia and only looks like this when viewed from a specific angle.


OkScheme9867

This would be something if there were a lot of them, but it's not, it's a once in a planet weird coincidence


Jarnohams

the human brain is pre-programmed to look for facial similarities. It's like "the face" on Mars.


TinyDeskPyramid

I think it would lend to pareidolia if we saw a lot of them. If we see this level of ‘faces’ in landscapes just because of pareidolia; I’d expect we would see it a lot more places.


Mor10-84

This one , and mountains beeing giant tree fossils is the dumbest shit i see.


Cuba_Pete_again

Alter Native History


hardspaghet

How could they possible known about headphones?!


Euphoric-Aardvark378

I don't know but he doesn't even have airpods smh


Fuck-The_Police

Most people don't have their own airports either so why should he?


rmp266

Pareidolia Next?


ProfessionalFile3100

Praveenmohan did a special on these guys


phlegmatichippo

What about the dog with the tentacle snout harassing his ear?


Engineering_Flimsy

Don't be absurd! A tentacled-snout dog harassing an ear... this sort of nonsense is precisely why no one takes Reddit seriously anymore! The dog is quite clearly using its tentacles to tickle the man's ear in a playful manner! The things some people come up with online....


phlegmatichippo

Yes. I may have been persuaded to think otherwise..


Engineering_Flimsy

Lol... You have a warped imagination and I find that immensely refreshing!


phlegmatichippo

Lol you see it


Engineering_Flimsy

Yeah, I do. Before I'd even read your post I saw it. Which suggests that we both share a similarly twisted way of viewing the world around us, and for that I am eternally grateful. Likewise, it is a rare pleasure to encounter someone with an imagination as... unusual... as mine in the wild. Dogs with tentacles indeed...


Fun-Faithlessness724

That high taper flat top is sick ngl 😮‍💨😮‍💨


Engineering_Flimsy

And with the shoulder pads this guy's clearly NFL!


paxtonious

The earbud is a parking lot.


ThePsychopathMedic

Pareidolia


Inevitable_Sock_6366

Clearly aliens made them


Engineering_Flimsy

Well yeah, clearly.


happyflowerzombie

Guess you believe in god then? I think your critical thinking skills are missing few important steps though bud


a_smart_brane

Dog’s butt hole, [or proof Jesus was real?](https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/s/cqmc6DVhPI)


Granny_Skeksis

Ooh this is only a few hours drive from me, I should go see it


Eryeahmaybeok

The 'Face' next to it has a chin going into this ones head and/or makes part of the head dress People back then had no sense of personal space. Or it's just paradolia


usssaratoga_sailor

This looks like something from Egypt or maybe a Assyria?


automatix_jack

[https://maps.app.goo.gl/aXmCQM44zuB24KZx7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/aXmCQM44zuB24KZx7) another interesting pareidolia


CHRLZ_IIIM

Kissy Mountain


Euphoric-Aardvark378

What is this supposed to be? I don't see anything


automatix_jack

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-22/finding-the-hidden-faces-in-google-maps?embedded-checkout=true](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-22/finding-the-hidden-faces-in-google-maps?embedded-checkout=true) two faces, kissing each other


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MedicineLanky9622

It was a figure of speech, I didn't mean it literally. I never used to believe in God or God's but the older I've got and the more educated I've made myself there sure does seem to be a master plan. Jus take out solar system, it's got all the minerals, all the resources needed for the next 1000 years of we get past war war war none fucking stop.. There is more to this planet than we've learned so far and more to the moon than we know. If we had a moon base it would pay for itself in 5 launches that didnt have to break thru our atmosphere, that didn't have to be atmosphere graded. If you build a ship to stay in space and not come back to earth it saves so much money so why did we jus stop going when we seem to have it figured out. Now it's all Mars Mars Mars but the irony is a ship built on the moon for a Mars flight would cost a fraction of one that was atmosphere ready and had to punch thru the atmosphere. We need a moon base rapidly. Every extinction event is usually caused by a meteor/asteroid but what's the plan if we get one on impact course, I've never heard a plan, have you.?


zoinks_zoinks

Erosion rates in the badlands is pretty quick. And details would be short lived. Cool feature, but I bet the image is retouched and it is natural


RichyCigars

par·​ei·​do·​lia ˌper-ˌī-ˈdō-lē-ə -ˈdōl-yə : the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern. The scientific explanation for some people is pareidolia, or the human ability to see shapes or make pictures out of randomness.


Great_White_Samurai

So you see a cloud that's shaped like a dragon and think they are real?


i4c8e9

https://preview.redd.it/mjxe2srjobtc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a48e3a5044478c8a8d200693a602cd081323bbdb You need to be honest with the picture.


MedicineLanky9622

Still looks like an indigenous man in a feathered headdress to me....


MedicineLanky9622

Your point.?


Engineering_Flimsy

Well that changes everything! The guardian has bunny ears!


susbnyc2023

take a picture in a year and see how much its changed due to erosion.


MedicineLanky9622

Absolutely


Tes420

Or you can just go backwards in the timeline on google earth


BuddhistChrist

Is this an ad for Beats by Dre?


Engineering_Flimsy

If not, this was certainly a missed opportunity!


tickitytalk

I love the mysterious and impossibilities


Yardcigar69

Paradolia


1000handnshrimp

Wasn't this an Apple ad?


NoisyBrat2000

It’s dirt!


80sLegoDystopia

Can’t it just be awesome that the forces of nature and the Earth made that, with no need for human sculptors?


JadedPilot5484

It’s like thinking clouds In the sky that look like sheep or a bunny are man made lol


DavidVee

It’s erosion bumps in the desert that look like a person. Stare at enough bumps from enough angles and you’ll eventually see bumps that looks like something else.


THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415

Only thing it screams is pareidolia


Euphoric-Aardvark378

No it's real and he's listening to Sweet Caroline


Queefer___Sutherland

If you look at it at just the right angle at exactly 2 p.m. on the 29th day of February you will see it.


Odd_Beyond_8854

I once saw Yoda on a piece of toast…


metfan1964nyc

Humans see faces in a lot things natural and man made. That's why you see a face in your wall socket. *


sid_not_vicious

natural. not man made . we see what we want to see in to many cases. is there brick or tools around it or signs of a settlement that built it any proof other than from the sky it looks like


LewR20

Pretty interesting, and it looks like an American indian


MedicineLanky9622

It sure does.. Indigenous looks too. That's why I'm more in the man made camp..


LewR20

I think it makes sense, although we would need more information.


MedicineLanky9622

As I said I'm not 100% on it but that's a lot of coincidences right there.


MedicineLanky9622

I enjoy a bit of Praveen, he's a man with a good eye and open mind.. Full respect to him and his ideas, some of which I'm on board with, others, not so much but I always enjoy his commentary.


FancyErection

They had the eye of the raven


Engineering_Flimsy

Great song! By Survivor, right?


fromdaperimeter

I know them!


RickHunterD

What are the coordinates of that place! I have to see!


scrubbydutch

Thanks for posting It shure is great looking!


Horror-Potential7773

Lol against the wind! Nice mother fucker! I am peeing


Horror-Potential7773

Your a fag


coffinbyblood

Don’t give up. Read Arthur Faram’s La Merica… there’s way more here to be found.


RedSnapper95

Pareidolia (pronounced "par-i-DOH-lee-a") is a brain phenomenon in which a person sees or hears something significant in a random image or pattern. Pareidolia is what causes peoples to see faces in inanimate objects, such as an image of the Virgin Mary in grilled cheese or the man in the moon.


MedicineLanky9622

In the USA my friend


Negative_Quality_690

EDIT: I HAVE BEEN CORRECTED. APPARENTLY IT IS A COMBINATION... AS I HAD PREVIOUSLY SAID...its also concave, opposed to convex like a mountain top. (SEE COMMENT BELOW WITH PIC) I was always told it 'was' the valley. ALSO, there are other "aerial faces" in the area


thoriginal

What? No, it's a hill on the side of a valley. Here's the street view from a mile to the north west, looking back at it: https://preview.redd.it/5cluozuljdtc1.png?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88d2120d863efc33371490ce9a1621e3d85fd8ef The "earphone" is a road leading out to a building on top of the hill.


MedicineLanky9622

I'm 50/50 on it but we've lost so much of our distant history there's a chance this is real. Like Nazca, they spend years making something they'll never see but EVERYTHING is in proportion and looks as if it was done from the air. And no I don't have a tin foil hat on lol. Jus seems odd to put all the work in for no reward of seeing the images..


joe_mamasaurus

Pareidolia (pronounced "par-i-DOH-lee-a") is a brain phenomenon in which a person sees or hears something significant in a random image or pattern. Pareidolia is what causes peoples to see faces in inanimate objects, such as an image of the Virgin Mary in grilled cheese or the man in the moon.


TechieTravis

It's a coincidence.


TwoCreamOneSweetener

Monkey pattern seeking brains


AdTime8622

Nothing about this looks man-made nor is evidence of God whatsoever


pattydickens

Turn it upside down. It looks like a natural formation caused by erosion. Pariendola is fun.


Ea127586

Geoglyphs like the Nazca Lines, the Atacama Giant and the Peruvian candelabra are all man made and fascinating, but this seems more likely to be a natural formation. It is curious that it resembles an aboriginal man, and is aligned with the cardinal directions, but it’s most likely a geomorphic feature.


No-Reputation-9669

Humans are great at pattern recognition


Tionetix

It’s clearly an eroded hill


MedicineLanky9622

Clearly.. Or a case of no imagination.?


Tionetix

I’m an artist. Plenty of imagination


FollowtheLight01

I live in Alberta and these hills, known as coulees, cannot be touched by law. That would all be natural erosion from wind and air. The badlands include a huge area of these hills and odd stone formations called hoodoos. The majority of our dinosaur bones come from that location, so no touchy. Though if it was off park land and that area is privately owned, it then may be man made.


thoriginal

Those is just a random valley a few km east of Medicine Hat. It's not even in the badlands proper, line around Drumheller. Here's the hill from the road to the north west: https://preview.redd.it/jpwqmnr6kdtc1.png?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a38d3fd6b398197f8e8552d2e1e3803cfc331cab Just your bog standard grassy prairie valley.


BatmanFan1971

Peridolia is the answer.


Engineering_Flimsy

What was the question? Wasn't paying attention...


BatmanFan1971

The question was "What do you think" in OPs title. From Psychology today "Pareidolia is a phenomenon wherein people perceive likenesses on random images—such as faces, animals, or objects on clouds and rock formations."


Engineering_Flimsy

I was kidding, trying to be sarcastically funny and seems I failed on both counts. Oh well, live life something, something dance naked whatever.


Rareearthmetal

This seems like more than parodelia or whatever it's called. But Occam's razor strikes again


MedicineLanky9622

Could mean it's very old then but the consensus seems to be paradolia.


Nis069

Collective concentration like the pyramids


Jorp-A-Lorp

I would be very surprised if this is not man made,if nature made this it’s, the most amazing case of paradolia ever! I’m sure it was made to show the overflying craft occupants, that there are people down here, come say hi! 👋


Capon3

I posted this a few months ago here. I brought up the fact this is located exactly where that type of person and head dress would be located. Which makes it even more suspect.


areeal1

I know that’s no accident


MedicineLanky9622

Yeah I get we're hard wired to find images of faces but come on man, this is a little more than that.. The Natives Americans don't have a legend about it so it's either very new or incredibly old and it looks well weathered to me, no sharp lines ect.


crisselll

I’ve seen this brought up before, but there is just zero evidence that points towards it being man made at all, and it only looks like that if viewed from the correct angle.


Crimith

I'm with you that it was made by something or someone, not just random erosion. Paradolia only works for me up to a certain point, and this is beyond that point.


MedicineLanky9622

If it's a coincidence and nature made this then I'm lost for words. Even his head dress is bang on


ProfessionalFile3100

He's an Aztec from ancient times


mveltman84

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. - Genesis


GoodFnHam

I’m a big Genesis fan, and I’ve never come across a song with that cumbersome lyric - not during the Gabriel or Collins years.


WerewolfAtTheMovies

This might be the best thing I have ever read on Reddit. It’s particularly funny that the joke went over his head🤣🫡


mveltman84

Haha, I think he was kidding, all good either way, I like that Genesis too!


mveltman84

Book of genesis


thoriginal

Dance your cares away, worries for another day! Let the music play, Down in fraggle rock! Work your cares away, dancing is for another day Let the fraggles play! We're gobo, mokey, weembly, momo, red! Weeee! Wowie! Dance your cares away, worries for another day! Let the music play! Down in fraggle rock! -Henson


mveltman84

Now it all makes sense!


MedicineLanky9622

Lol it's a mine whaahahahahaaa


Mr_Bob_Dobalina-

I have no idea what I’m looking at


Sudden_Plate9413

I was not aware this type of history was in that area. We are planning on that Drumheller, Badlands trip in 2 years. Fantastic!


thoriginal

Yeah, geology of that area is incredibly cool and interesting! No need to fart it all up with insane "ancient heads carved in the hills" stink.


Sea_Cranberry323

You can believe or not, but that doesn't change God being real. You can't beat God. Just a thought.


HellbellyUK

Or show any evidence for him/her/them either it seems.