Say what you want about NASA budgets and missions, but without NASA, thousands of wackos would have nothing to do. As it stands now, we can safely keep these people off the streets and glued to their monitors where they pour over images in a quest to locate aliens, ET architecture, artwork and whatever else their overactive imaginations can conjure.

Discovery takes a closer look by visiting Conspiracy Con:

Rover photographs are “a cosmic treasure trove of the humanoid beings, animal species, carved statues, and built structures on Mars that reveal that the Red Planet has been a harbinger of life for eons and is inhabited today,” Basiago said earlier this month (who’s bio and press releases describe him as an “environmental scholar,” “genius,” and former “whiz-kid”).

Basiago says five types of beings can be discerned in the shadowy rock formations in the Spirit images of a pretty lifeless-looking rock strewn landscape. They include not just O-scale people with clothes, but also creatures with bulbous heads and spindly bodies, forms that are all head, and hybrids that combine human traits with insect and lizard ones.