The moon is Iapetus.

This planetary body that defies what we know about moons & planets. Recent images sent from NASA's Cassini probe have revealed a gigantic equilateral "ridge" circling the equator. The epic proportions of the ridge are not seen anywhere else in the universe.

The magnitude of this 20 KM high equilateral ridge is almost beyond comprehension. In photographs taken of Iapetus you can clearly see the ridge, visible from space. These are not your "wall of China" proportions
http://www.alienvideo.net/0805/alien-monolith-iapetus.php

I really dont know what to make of this, i think its bordering on the hollow moon theory. what say you.

We are still learning new information each day, just because a new feature is discovered does not mean it is artificial. Also i wasnt aware that we had explored the Universe yet. I it were alien then NASA surely would not of released the images surely ? isnt this the common consensus when 'something' is found up there.



Still where is the evidence it has been 'created' as opposed to formed, it looks like a natural formation judging by the fact that the ridge has obviousley been battered by meteor's just like the rest of the surface. If this moon like our own is 'supposed' to be hollow then wouldnt the force of impact of such objects puncture the surface ?

Click here for an article discussing ideas about Iapetus' ridge formation. Not too likely to be an alien monolith though.

Oh wow, I've never seen so many wild assumptions in one place in my life.



For example.

I suppose the answer will be, as usual, "You prove that it's not".

That moon reminds me of these things:

http://community-2.webtv.net/WF11/3BillionYearOld/

Perhaps their formations are linked somehow, some natural sphere-making phenomenon?

LOL, doesn't look like Arthur C. Clarke's monolith to me...



maybe Iapetus is an 'alien' walnut...

It looks part of the moons surface.

The time is near... it won't be long until everyone has no choice but to accept that what we are dealing with here aren't myths, but reality.

The link in the OP starts with this.......this was a strange start....40,000 kms !!!

Isn't Saturn about 757 MILLION miles away ???

Perhaps they mean that Iapetus is 40,000 kms away from Saturn....


Anyway...the rest of the link was interesting......especially the Arthur C Clarke bit.

Yeah it just looks like a natural formation. I find it hard to believe that could be the product of anything else.

It reminded me more of the Death Star. But anyway, good link Lilly. I like Castillos theory better. I find it hard to believe a ring could form around a small moon.

"The epic proportions of the ridge are not seen anywhere else in the universe."

And we have seen how much of the universe? Its an interseting formation but it looks like a natural one to me.

Ya, ummm... while there might be a cool geological feature on this moon... however, the original article mentions Richard Hoagland and fails to mention that he's a charlatan and well, psychotic. Any article that mentions Hoagland and leaves people to think he's credible can't be a good article.

one of the more interesting things i thought on there was the part about how the moon was geometric which means well its like a octagon all the way round insteead of a circle

I don't think there was even oxygen in the Earths atmosphere 2.8 billion years ago, let alone sphere making creatures.

I never claimed creatures did it - I was just showing that globes with lines around the middle show up in nature.

If small ones can form, why not larger ones?

Thing is its a huge ridge...twice the size of everest who knows what made it or who made it... O_o

yeah but if superior beings live in space whats to say that they breath oxygen?

Agreed, living creatures don't need to breathe oxygen, i think, there's these creatures at the bottom of the sea that live on gases that bubble up from the sea bed, i think, aren't there. But any living creature has to breathe something; however superior they maye be, I'm not sure if they'd have cracked the idea of not having to breathe at all.
I suppose they could manufacture their own oxygen, or whatever they might breathe; but they'd still have to manufacture it from something.
Or maybe there might be something in the idea of the intergalactic whale, which scoops up oxygen molecules in insterstellar space like a whale scoops up plankton, who can say.

I think that calling this an 'alien monolith' is certainly jumping to premature conclusions.

I have a theory as to how these ridges formed.

I think that during the formation of Iapetus it was extremly hot and as it cooled it shrunk and compressed in on itself forming the ridge the circle's it. Just my little theory

I had to go back to the link and look.Sure enough they posted WRONG ! The book 2001 told of the Moon Europa circling Jupiter , not Iapetus which is near Saturn.

Watch the movie!

That is in fact part of one of the hypotheses about Iapetus' equatorial ridge. Iapetus may have been an oblate spheroid early on in its formation, rotating much more rapidly than it does now. Rapid cooling, combined with enough elasticity of the body to be affected by the tides generated by Saturn's gravity, may have resulted in the equatorial ridge remaining elevated.

It may be solidified icy material which welled up along a fissure in the surface.

There are several hypotheses. One thing is for certain. It's stuff like this that makes planetary science so interesting.

Darn good speculation. As MID said, there are several ideas about what may have caused the ridge. This is where sending out probes like Cassini can really be useful.

ROGER:

There are some rather substantial differences between Sir Arthur's book and the movie.


In the book, Discovery's mission was to Saturn, not Jupiter. Jupiter was used as a gravity assist to place Discovery on a trajectory to Saturn, where the pulse produced by the monolith's exposure to the Sun was tracked. Discovery's mission was to investigate the Saturn system, with particular emphasis on Iapetus. And, Iapetus is where Bowman found the monolith, the "star gate"...

In the movie, this was all changed to Jupiter, in order to eliminate the technical confusion of describing a pertubation maneuver...which Kubrick thought would take away from the plot, and the monolith / star gate was found at a libration point...not really specified until 2010 came out...L1 between Jupiter and Io.

Europa had nothing to do with 2001 the movie, nor 2001 the book. Europa was introduced as the point of the monolith in 2010, a novel which sequeled the movie more than Sir Arthur's first book.

Indeed. I stand corrected . Thank You.

Yah, I've been waiting to see who would be the first one to say it looked like the death start... I didn't want to say it thought because that would have made ME the Star Wars nerd here.

Could it be tectonic plates that might have formed the ridge????