During this most recently flyby, Cassini passed 100 times closer than its previous Iapetus flyby in 2004. At this distance, the spacecraft was able to reveal the moon's strange bulging shape, equatorial ridge, and pattern of bright and darkness across its features.
Many of its photographs focus in on the bizarre mountain ridge that circles the moon's equator, like a seam. The new Cassini images showed that this ridge is mountainous, rising as high as 20 km, and extends across more than half its circumference.
Thus far no word from Richard Hoagland -- that I'm aware of -- but a quick jaunt to his site suggests renewed fascination with secret Masonic exploration of ET ruins on the Moon. This is a book I actually plan on reading, despite co-author Mike Bara's calling me a "faggot" for daring to entertain the prospect that an object on the lunar surface might not be a C3-PO-style robot head after all.
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Ya know...it's really too bad about Hoagland. I interviewed him a number of years ago with his analysis on Themis related subsurface imaging: http://www.darkplanetonline.com/ruinscydonia.html . I really do think he has a few Martian diamond-in-the-rough concepts going for him (and the moon for that matter).
His problem however is that he always pushes that edge of believability and puts too much weight into subjective image analysis. He brings up good points but almost always sabotages what might be valid information with some pretty outstanding conjecture.
I'll always keep tabs on him though ;)
Denny
Heh! Denny, I posit you are far too kind to Hoagland. He doesn't just push the envelope, he tears through it, shreds it, takes the residue and adds glue and water, and fashions origami-like twisty papier-mache masks of ridiculous
fantasy therefrom which he wears gladly in public. Just my HO. Ha!
Heh! Denny, I posit you are far too kind to Hoagland. He doesn't just push the envelope, he tears through it, shreds it, takes the residue and adds glue and water, and fashions origami-like twisty papier-mache masks of ridiculous
fantasy therefrom which he wears gladly in public. Just my HO. Ha!
Whoops! Sorry for post-commenting twice--early-morning Mr. Coffeeman error attributable. Sheesh! 8^}
Iapetus is very open to all kinds of speculation, as is the delay in the transmission of data.
Suppose Iapetus was artificial as Hoagland posits. Wouldn't you expect to see two distinct substances. One that was the original artificial one the other what has accumulated since?
If you can believe in the possibility of a great Martian civilization, Iapetus being artificial is not much of a stretch.
I don't know. I don't claim to. The Banyan trees on Mars turned out to be something almost as mysterious (under recent hi-res photos). Hoagland has little credibility, but that does not mean everything he says is automatically wrong.
stan
I swear I saw a couple of highly symmetrical exhaust-vent-looking protuberances atop (one on each side) the equatorial bulge which (as we all know) was once the alien's giant maglev spacecraft launching tunnel. Those exhaust vents prove it! ;-)
--W.M. Bear
I didn't call you a "faggot" for daring to suggest that "Data's head" might not be real, it was for using your usual assinine assumptions and flawed logic. You have a unique ability to dismiss that which you don't fully understand, and that would be most things.
Well, that was certainly subtle, Mike. Might the same comments be applied to yourself for such an over-the-top response? Parse your own comments if unsure.
Oh, and Hoagland?
" Hoagland has little credibility, but that does not mean everything he says is automatically wrong."
Yeah, you're right. If he told me the sky was, on occassion, blue, I'd tend to believe that.
But, just like a stopped clock is technically, precisely correct twice a day, just think about all the other second-by-second intrevals (read: prior Hoagland claims) when said clock is completely wrong. It's sort of like that, man, in Hoagland's case.
Take it easy, Zorg -- you're dangerously close to being called nasty names. ;-)
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