{"id":102757,"date":"2020-02-24T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/university-deletes-press-release-claiming-evidence-of-bugs-on-mars"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:02:23","slug":"university-deletes-press-release-claiming-evidence-of-bugs-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/university-deletes-press-release-claiming-evidence-of-bugs-on-mars","title":{"rendered":"University Deletes Press Release Claiming Evidence of Bugs on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/university-deletes-press-release-claiming-evidence-of-bugs-on-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, personally, have pareidolia with respect to insects, beetles in particular,\u201d Maddison told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ve worked on beetles for decades; I have collected many thousands of beetles around the world. Through the years I have built into my brain a pattern-recognition system for picking out beetles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Rosomer is probably wrong, even though he probably thinks he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think there are insects on Mars,\u201d Maddison added. \u201cThe photographs that are in that press release you sent are entirely unconvincing, as they fall within the range expected in zillions of non-insect objects photographed in lowish resolution on a Marscape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI, personally, have pareidolia with respect to insects, beetles in particular,\u201d Maddison told Space.com. \u201cI\u2019ve worked on beetles for decades; I have collected many thousands of beetles around the world. Through the years I have built into my brain a pattern-recognition system for picking out beetles.\u201d In other words, Rosomer is probably wrong, even though [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}