The other day the super-cool Pinguino was asking about the effect you get when an image does not download properly.
I had wondered about it before, so I opened some images, tore out a big chunk of the underlying data, and looked at them. The first is what it looks like when a GIF is torn apart, and the second is what happens when it happens to a JPG.
It’s a neat effect.
![destroyedartlung-gif](https://cdn.artlung.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/destroyedartlung-gif.png)
![destroyedartlung-jpg](https://cdn.artlung.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/destroyedartlung-jpg.png)
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What also happens is that some people even think they see evidence for alien civilizations:
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2005/084/hale-civ-evidence.htm