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NASA scientist debunks 'alien spire on the Moon' conspiracy theory


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47 minutes ago, Antigonos said:

Richard Hoagland, of the Face on Mars fame, was making these claims of extraterrestrial ruins, like spires and glass structures, on the Moon back in the 80s.

My favorite ball of rubbish from Hoagland was when he started floating the idea that Phobos was an ancient alien spaceship.

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I completely forgot about Hoagland! He was a source of a lot of entertainment.

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5 minutes ago, astrobeing said:

I completely forgot about Hoagland! He was a source of a lot of entertainment.

Thats the guy who got me interested in all these charlatans... I heard him on Coast to Coast back in the days. 😄

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13 minutes ago, Hazzard said:

Thats the guy who got me interested in all these charlatans... I heard him on Coast to Coast back in the days. 😄

I read The Monuments of Mars when I was in my twenties. It was certainly entertaining, I’ll give him that.

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2 hours ago, Antigonos said:

Richard Hoagland, of the Face on Mars fame, was making these claims of extraterrestrial ruins, like spires and glass structures, on the Moon back in the 80s.

I remember those stories and that name from when I was a kid,those tabloids near the checkout counter at grocery stores...my mom never would buy me one,said it was garbage and nonsense.

I still too this day will never know the truth about Batboy! 😆

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The idea of a Saddam/Bush Jr. duel is hilarious. It would have made a great pay per view special.

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4 hours ago, Trelane said:

My favorite ball of rubbish from Hoagland was when he started floating the idea that Phobos was an ancient alien spaceship.

I thought that was Deimos - or am I getting the fact it’s a spacecraft in Doctor Who confused?

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5 hours ago, Cho Jinn said:

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Damn Batboy must be alive and had a son...

I remember the story on those front pages from the late 80's early 90's when original Bush was in office,not Dubbya 😆

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14 hours ago, CrimsonKing said:

I still too this day will never know the truth about Batboy! 😆

I heard batboy left the cave became a goth DJ and spends his free time babbling on an unexplained mysteries forum.

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11 hours ago, Antigonos said:

The idea of a Saddam/Bush Jr. duel is hilarious. It would have made a great pay per view special.

Remember the Frankie goes to Hollywood video two tribes with Reagan fighting gorbie?

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15 hours ago, Antigonos said:

The idea of a Saddam/Bush Jr. duel is hilarious. It would have made a great pay per view special.

Didn't Robot Chicken do that?
If not, they should have.

Harte

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On 4/22/2024 at 9:07 AM, Hazzard said:

Thats the guy who got me interested in all these charlatans... I heard him on Coast to Coast back in the days. 😄

I had to review the Wikipedia on him to refresh my memory. He has zero college education but in the 60s he kept getting nice gigs in science and was even the science advisor for CBS during the Moon landings. They couldn't find anyone more qualified? Then in the 80s he went "nonlinear" (engineering term for losing your mind) and got rich writing "The Monuments of Mars" which Wikipedia said he wrote in an L.A. jail, no explanation given.

BTW, the cover of the book quotes Sir Arthur C. Clark saying, "I'm convinced we have discovered life on Mars" but I can't find any source for that quote. It's not in his long list of quotes at the Clarke Institute web site. Perhaps Clarke realized he jumped to a false conclusion.

Then Hoagland went full on NASA conspiracy with "Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA" and claimed they were covering up incontrovertible evidence of alien life. He claims there are stacks and stacks of "classified material" from the agency.

Then things got silly when he claimed that he and some other guy designed the famous Pioneer 10 plaque and that Carl Sagan nobody had nothing to do with is. As you would expect he's adjusted this story several times as the evidence demanded.

I'm sort of glad that I had forgotten about him.

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46 minutes ago, astrobeing said:

I had to review the Wikipedia on him to refresh my memory. He has zero college education but in the 60s he kept getting nice gigs in science and was even the science advisor for CBS during the Moon landings. They couldn't find anyone more qualified? Then in the 80s he went "nonlinear" (engineering term for losing your mind) and got rich writing "The Monuments of Mars" which Wikipedia said he wrote in an L.A. jail, no explanation given.

BTW, the cover of the book quotes Sir Arthur C. Clark saying, "I'm convinced we have discovered life on Mars" but I can't find any source for that quote. It's not in his long list of quotes at the Clarke Institute web site. Perhaps Clarke realized he jumped to a false conclusion.

Then Hoagland went full on NASA conspiracy with "Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA" and claimed they were covering up incontrovertible evidence of alien life. He claims there are stacks and stacks of "classified material" from the agency.

Then things got silly when he claimed that he and some other guy designed the famous Pioneer 10 plaque and that Carl Sagan nobody had nothing to do with is. As you would expect he's adjusted this story several times as the evidence demanded.

I'm sort of glad that I had forgotten about him.

He was even able to ride the wave of Monuments’ success into actually giving several lectures at the United Nations, one on Mars and one on the Moon. They were later released on VHS and dvd. 

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An "interesting" guy no doubt. 

What I remember the most besides the face on Mars (Cydonia) is the claim that Mars hosted a species of giant glass worms (or transportation tubes) .. later debunked by Phil Plait back in 2001.

 

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http://cosmicdiary.org/lfenton/2014/05/19/debunking-hoaglands-glass-worms-with-hirise/

 

 

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6 hours ago, astrobeing said:

I had to review the Wikipedia on him to refresh my memory. He has zero college education but in the 60s he kept getting nice gigs in science and was even the science advisor for CBS during the Moon landings. They couldn't find anyone more qualified? Then in the 80s he went "nonlinear" (engineering term for losing your mind) and got rich writing "The Monuments of Mars" which Wikipedia said he wrote in an L.A. jail, no explanation given.

BTW, the cover of the book quotes Sir Arthur C. Clark saying, "I'm convinced we have discovered life on Mars" but I can't find any source for that quote. It's not in his long list of quotes at the Clarke Institute web site. Perhaps Clarke realized he jumped to a false conclusion.

Then Hoagland went full on NASA conspiracy with "Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA" and claimed they were covering up incontrovertible evidence of alien life. He claims there are stacks and stacks of "classified material" from the agency.

Then things got silly when he claimed that he and some other guy designed the famous Pioneer 10 plaque and that Carl Sagan nobody had nothing to do with is. As you would expect he's adjusted this story several times as the evidence demanded.

I'm sort of glad that I had forgotten about him.

A few years back we had a "nonlinear" member trying to claim almost everything on Mars was evidence of life, I recall members exposing his fails over and over it got really heated a few times , can't recall his name.

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2 hours ago, the13bats said:

A few years back we had a "nonlinear" member trying to claim almost everything on Mars was evidence of life, I recall members exposing his fails over and over it got really heated a few times , can't recall his name.

Yea, I remember that to!

What the hell was his name?... Was it the guy with all the photos of "alien artifacts"?... Everyone single one distorted beyond recognition?

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7 minutes ago, Hazzard said:

Yea, I remember that to!

What the hell was his name?... Was it the guy with all the photos of "alien artifacts"?... Everyone single one distorted beyond recognition?

Yeah, that loon, seems even saru had to clue him in a few times , he was in that whole mindset he's superior and we are stupid heads

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16 hours ago, the13bats said:

A few years back we had a "nonlinear" member trying to claim almost everything on Mars was evidence of life, I recall members exposing his fails over and over it got really heated a few times , can't recall his name.

I remember some crazy guy had a web site that featured every picture from the surface of Mars that looked remotely like something living on Earth as proof of Martian life. For example, he concluded that the round rocks they found on Mars that NASA called "blueberries" had to be fossilized berries. There was simply no other reasonable explanation. Of course we find round rocks near water sources all the time but... these were fossilized berries, dammit!

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1 hour ago, astrobeing said:

I remember some crazy guy had a web site that featured every picture from the surface of Mars that looked remotely like something living on Earth as proof of Martian life. For example, he concluded that the round rocks they found on Mars that NASA called "blueberries" had to be fossilized berries. There was simply no other reasonable explanation. Of course we find round rocks near water sources all the time but... these were fossilized berries, dammit!

Had to be Richard Hoagland.

Harte

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1 hour ago, Harte said:

Had to be Richard Hoagland.

Harte

Why do you sign every post with your name??

You know its right there beside your Avatar...Right!!?

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1 hour ago, Hazzard said:

Why do you sign every post with your name??

You know its right there beside your Avatar...Right!!?

I've explained that here several dozen times.
I do it to aggravate you.

Harte

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"NASA scientist debunks 'alien spire on the Moon' conspiracy theory"

Exactly what a cabal member would say. The cover up continues.

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