ALIEN ARTIFACTS can best be FOUND ON MOON Space boffins have come up with a plan which strikes a deeply resonant chord with us here on the Register lunar desk. The scientists advocate the settting up of a distributed volunteer effort to trawl for signs of alien visits through the vast databases of lunar imagery being accumulated by NASA's space probe now circling the …
at least it will give those alien conspiracy nuts something to do that will keep them secured locked in their mom's basement, leaving the rest of us to live our lives normally
AND in blissful ignorance of the real truth thats out there!
bet that LRO probe has a 'malfunction' within a couple of days......
How many desks do you guys have at el reg? is it just one desk with lots of titles? or do you have lots of desks that you move around between? or alternatively, are these just hypothetical desks that the reader should furnish with their imagination?
mmmm moon-cheese desk.. gromit! gromit! we've forgotten the crackers!
Apologies for the slight tangent there..
Given the conspiracists propensity to see any nearly-straight-edged object as CONCLUSIVE PROOF OF ALIENS (see, for example, the "5 sided pyramid" on Mars that looks almost symmetrical until you actually pay attention) and a constant drone of "it's a city!" every time someone spots a jpeg artefact on a picture, I'm not sure this is going to produce anything particularly useful.
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Don't you think that if that LRO finds anything the government deems unworthy to release to the public that it'll just photoshop the images before release to the media like they've done with everything else? Someone mentioned Hoagland, I saw his interview on Camelot forum & it's quite interesting which goes with my theory on what he stated about the government "cleaning" up photos...one of them he mentions domes on the moon that were basically taken out of the picture that the public saw. This article is interesting in the least but again nothing will ever be produced unless the govm't approves it. They may find a Lost City on the Moon & we'll never see it if they don't want us to...all we get is a pixelated image of what might be something.
Governments have been altering photos since for ever, but without Photoshop or computers to digitize lunar pix and smoothly alter photos in the 60's & 70's, lunar photos released back then feature many clumsy (by modern standards) smudges. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13TmpnWwAJ8&feature=related>
I mean; for several reasons already mentioned its hard to pick this up as serious. And to add to the cynicism... Hasn't it been determined that having gas giants in the outer regions of our solar system helps protect the inner planets from impacts from meteors and the likes? All up to a certain point of course, but I clearly recall reading about studies which determined that planets such as Jupiter pick up a lot of "space debris".
So, pardon my very simple approach here, but wouldn't that aspect make the outer planets more liable sources ?
Even better, gas giants can be mined for hydrogen fuel and electricity so they would make a natural watering hole for interstellar spacecraft to visit. Assuming certain things about their propulsion systems and other workings, of course. I'd say the odds of stuff being left in Jupiter orbit or on its moons (many of which are subject to heavy erosion, though) are about as good as stuff being left on Luna, depending on how long ago they were visited.
And if you're adapted to space or even just different gravity, pressure or gas mixture, Earth may not be on the to-do list at all.
That would be "The Sentinel" one of his earlier works, Clifford D Simak also explored this theme with another short called "Construction Shack" where Pluto was not quite what they thought.. many other examples of alien leftovers can also be found dotted across the genre and the asteroid belt ;)
"That would be "The Sentinel" one of his earlier works..."
But the name of the film escapes me....
Obviously NASA can't remember either. Otherwise they would be looking for MAGNETIC anomalies. And doing it from a ground-based survey robot in Tycho......
Anyway, we'll soon know. Just as soon as they shut up JET and claim there's an infectious disease going round, and Russians looking like Rigsby who have just spent three months calibrating the new antennae at Tchalinko start asking suspicious questions...
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