A funny thing happened on the way to ...

"Reverse Engineering Department"
digital collage by Mick Mather

This image was already created when I stumbled into some YouTube™ broadcasts of the supposed Mars Photographs Cover-Up. The way I see it, anyone can say just about anything and believably back it up with statistical data, alternative theory, vague and indistinct imagery, ad infinitum. While that sort of thing is fun to watch and think about, I have a BIG problem with cover-up theories such as UFO's and said life on Mars documentation. When is the last time you tried to keep a secret? The minute you say, "you can't tell anyone this, but...", the lid is off the cookie jar and soon everyone will know it was you who spilled the beans! If information like this has really been covered up for all this time then the real story here is in how to keep mum about something a lot more important than whose house the postman, the milkman or the cable repairman is spending way too much time in. I don't know, it just doesn't seem possible given the blabbermouth factor of human nature. As for today's image and the object that's being reverse engineered? So sorry, that's a secret.

Another awful, winters day...

"Prototype At The Saucer Factory"
digital collage by Mick Mather

...temperatures that never got above zero, wind chill factor of minus 25 below. Brrrrrrrrr! So, what should a lad with frozed toes and frostbit ears do? Investigate the fusion department at the good ol' Saucer Works, natch! The shadows zipping past glazed, transom windows appeared familiar and alien at the same time but, once I opened the door to peek inside? Not a whirligig or flying thing in sight. The team leader was still busy at the reverse engineering table last I looked...nice sweater by the way. :D