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Now, take a look at the Badlands face in the Google Maps and compare it with a real Native American. They got the right idea, but in 1908, the idealization of human beauty was not Native American, it was classical European. It looks more like a Greek or Roman model wearing the feathered headgear of a Native American. Look at the nose and the chin on the penny. In fact, the only difference is that the head on the penny doesn’t really look like a Native American.

The Guardian actually looks like an Indian head that you find on old pennies like this one. One cannot expect to garner such snazzy marketing strategies from a land formation created approximately 70 million years old years ago by those whose main objective is not to sell a product that was not going to be around for very long. I think it is because the Badlands Guardian just doesn’t have that hot fresh newness to him that Apple needs to project into its products. When I look at it, all I think of is the set of white ear buds to my iPhone. This lime green iPod advertisement certainly does not bring to mind the image of the dusty arid foothills of the Canadian Badlands Guardian. Well maybe they did use his image in a roundabout sort of way.

They then placed a really sweet looking white road that led away from his ear, towards the main roadway so that he is now able to listen to some cool music from the Apple store. The very intricately detailed human head is obviously enjoying some music from his white Apple headphones, courtesy of someone who decided that the location where his ear happened to be was a good place to dig an exploratory oil well. It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time Magazine.I have no idea why Apple Computers did not take this image and market their music players with. The Guardian was also covered by Canada's Global Television. PCWorld magazine has referred to the formation as a 'geological marvel'. The Badlands Guardian was also described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a 'net sensation'. They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council.

In 2006 suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. The feature was discovered in 2005 by Lynn Hickox on Google Earth. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum. Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water. Its scale is much larger than the figures of Mount Rushmore. The apparent earphones are a road and an oil well, which were installed recently and are expected to disappear once the project is abandoned. Additional man-made structures have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure.

#Badlands guardian image full

Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward. The Badlands Guardian is a geomorphological feature located near Medicine Hat in the southeast corner of Alberta, Canada. Badlands Guardian in 1938, before the creation of the road that resembles the earphones.