The Conspiracy Theories You Hear in Prison
“Is there a face on Mars?” a prisoner wants to know.
He is standing in the doorway to my office, beaming like a child. After watching a program on the History Channel, he decided there was a real human visage on the red planet, perhaps created by aliens.
We look up the subject online together. It turns out there is a geographical feature on Mars that looks a lot like a face, but the photographs and data, of course, demonstrate that it is just a rock formation on the planet’s surface.
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I can see that he is genuinely disappointed — even as an incarcerated person, he had high hopes for a human presence in outer space.
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