{"id":38190,"date":"2011-08-13T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/presleidolia-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-08-13T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:04:17","slug":"presleidolia-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/presleidolia-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Presleidolia | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I haven&rsquo;t posted a fun pareidolia (patterns that look like faces or figures) news article in a while, and this is a good one: a man in Finland found <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iltalehti.fi\/uutiset\/2011080714171866_uu.shtml\">this interesting image<\/a> on his wall:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iltalehti.fi\/uutiset\/2011080714171866_uu.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d161d_finnish_virginmary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"371\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35809\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>[Here's <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;layout=2&amp;eotf=1&amp;sl=fi&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iltalehti.fi%2Fuutiset%2F2011080714171866_uu.shtml&amp;act=url\">the Google translation into English<\/a>.]<\/p><p>Of course, the article claims it looks like the Virgin Mary. <\/p><p>Now look: I know that the standard depiction of Mary is usually with her head bent, covered in a cowl, with a robe of some sort. That kind of figure lends itself to pareidolia &mdash; it&rsquo;s an easy shape to make, from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.badastronomy.com\/media\/radio\/bov\/bov_05012005.html\">oil stains<\/a> to<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BK0TQ_ZlrNBY3NXwWOw1kbdMzrs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d161d_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BK0TQ_ZlrNBY3NXwWOw1kbdMzrs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d161d_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d161d_8FaKU1jR5v8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d161d_MtOOF8yl2Zw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I haven&rsquo;t posted a fun pareidolia (patterns that look like faces or figures) news article in a while, and this is a good one: a man in Finland found this interesting image on his wall:[Here's the Google translation into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/presleidolia-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}