Giants in the Earth - v. 2.0

For some reason, the picture would not show up (though it showed up on my browser when I did "preview"), so I can email to someone eityher to see for themselves or try to make it available on the forum.Basically, I took the horned skull pic, upped the contrast and brightness and ran it through a "sharpen" filter.There is a clear and abrupt change in the texture of the bone of the orbit and the base of the 'horn', which is particularly evident above the right orbit.(p.s. - try this: http://www.geocities.com/huxter4441/skull.jpg)
pps - weird - it doesn't work as a link, but if you cut and paste the url, it seems to work...
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(2) "A second characteristic of the pseudo-scientist, which greatly strengthens his isolation, is a tendency toward paranoia," which manifests itself in several ways:
...(3) He believes himself unjustly persecuted and discriminated against...(4) He has strong compulsions to focus his attacks on the greatest scientists and the best-established theories. ..[This message has been edited by SLPx, 08-20-2003]

Ahh - makes sense...

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I'm sure we can 'assume' this is a hoax until the actuall source is verfied, but I dont see Paintshop as our verifier

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Well, Paintshop only enhances (actually, re-hances, as it appears that the pic on the linked page was 'doctored' to make the features less clear) the details of the picture. Looking at the anatomy - or supposed anatomy - is the clincher. I've seen animal skulls with horns - deer, bulls, etc. - and none have such a marked and "instant" change in texture at the base of the horn.I'll email you the pic tomorrow.

Well, it isn't really drift, as it pertains to the validity of the hornbed skull - and after all, Moose closed my thread stating that this thread was on the same topic...However, I think Zealot missed the point: I am not talikng anbout shading, I am talking about the texture, which can clearly be seen above the right orbit.
As you can see, the light source is at the above right (the skull's perspective), so there is no shade issue above the right orbit. It is the abrupt change of texture form the bone of the skull to the base of the horn - which tells me that the horn was stuck on with clay or something.So, if the horned skull at "The French Museum" is a fake, then the horned-people story loses some of its punch.

Yeah, and that hat-thing looks pretty silly, too.