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In 1896, Percival Lowell saw straight channels on Venus. He was excited, because he'll gonna get reach — at that time, the award was in place for anyone who finds intelligent life on any other planet but Earth and Mars.

Why Mars? Because astronomers were seeing straight channels there too.

But bright Venus made this clear once and for all.

The patterns astronomers were seeing...

...were their own eyes.

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  • 3
    Isn't that, that we, as a species, have evolved to recognize patterns even where they are not

    Nothing bad happens if you think you see a *snake*, but there is none, but the opposite might have costed you your life
  • 2
    Now that I learned that Venus resurfaces itself periodically this is even more interesting.
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