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So I'm more of a skeptic than anything else but I just find the features of Iapetus (one of saturn's moons) totally amazing.
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Not only does it have a straight ridge which runs for hundreds of kilometers. Half of the planet is black as asphalt and the other is white as snow. Also, if you look at the outline of the planet up close. It does not appear smoothly round but rather like a geodesic sphere.
Oh, and the half of the planet that is black is be continually coated with whatever it is that makes it black.
Others have said this moon could be a giant alien craft. While I think that is unlikely, if it was I would bet you would be able to generate a significant about of power because of the temp diferences between the dark half and the light half. It would be cheap, continual, plentiful, safe energy.
Anyway, just a thought
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I've seen sites claiming Iapetus was a constructed object, but I don't have the scientific background to comment. I know it's unlikely, but -- people who can comment -- is it conceivable?
Richard Hoagland says a lot of stuff of Iapetus...
You know it looks vaguely and ominously like the Death Star.
Iapetus does look weird, most likely due to having had a weird past. One leading theory is that Iapetus had a run in with one of Saturn's rings look here.
So, Iapetus is not a death star, nor is it an alien space ship, it's just a really cool moon.
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According to a Geophysical Research Letter submitted on the 29th of April by Paulo C.C. Freire of Arecibo Observatory, "...this ridge and the dark coating of the hemisphere on which it lies are intimately interlinked and are the result of a collision with the edge of a primordial Saturnian ring, ultimately caused by a sudden change in the orbit of Iapetus". Says Freire, "Because of its unique nature, we will henceforth refer to the equatorial ridge of Iapetus simply as 'the Rindge' to mean that this feature is not a ridge in the usual sense of the term; i.e., a mountain chain caused by tectonic process. This model naturally explains all of the unique features of this satellite; and is probably the solution to one of the oldest mysteries in solar system astronomy."
So, Iapetus is not a death star, nor is it an alien space ship, it's just a really cool moon.
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Iapetus does look weird, most likely due to having had a weird past. One leading theory is that Iapetus had a run in with one of Saturn's rings look here.
So, Iapetus is not a death star, nor is it an alien space ship, it's just a really cool moon.
So, Iapetus is not a death star, nor is it an alien space ship, it's just a really cool moon.
I read that theory, it is interesting, but unprovable really. I think Cassini will fly by really close in September. I would love to see some higher resolution pictures. I'm not expecting little green men. But I think that the "rindge" on Iapetus is really geologically unique and deserves to be studied.
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You know it looks vaguely and ominously like the Death Star.
haha as soon as i looked at it i thought a moisture farmer from tatoine could make that shot haha
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haha as soon as i looked at it i thought a moisture farmer from tatoine could make that shot haha
A moisture farmer who could also bullseye womprats in his T16?
Symbol beat me to it, I was going to say death star. Maybe Lucas knows something we don't?
On a serious note, the moons of jupiter and saturn are very intresting, I do not think that they are alien ships, but it is possible that some of them hold life, such as titan, even if the form of life is only microbes. It maybe not be probable, but i won't say its impossible.
On a serious note, the moons of jupiter and saturn are very intresting, I do not think that they are alien ships, but it is possible that some of them hold life, such as titan, even if the form of life is only microbes. It maybe not be probable, but i won't say its impossible.
looks like a walnut....shaped death star. 
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