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Title: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial construct!!
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on June 22, 2006, 11:44:16 PM

This (http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm) is a very cool website with some rather astounding images from the Cassini probe.

This two-colored moon that Clarke wrote about in 2001 has a 12-mile high, 12-mile wide "wall" spanning the hemisphere in the exact center of the dark area.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/images_v2/Iapetus/Iapetus-Color-High-Res.jpg

And there are features that look like the ruins of an ancient civilization.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/images_v2/Iapetus/Iapetus-Architecture8.jpg

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: Harbinger on June 23, 2006, 01:44:54 AM

That's no moon. That's a space station!

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: Fellfrosch on June 23, 2006, 04:29:37 AM

Whoa, those are some crazy pictures.

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: Spriggan on June 23, 2006, 04:43:34 AM

It's also been soo proven to be fake.  It's a very fun read though.  The reason you get the ruins and like are due to pixelization when you zoom into something and then apply filters in photoshop (ie sharpen) to try and clear it up.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/links.html

My favorite Hoagland picture is Nazi artifacts on mars http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/s_howitzer.jpg

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on June 23, 2006, 12:30:56 PM

Sharpening artifacts regardless, the perfectly straight mountain range is pretty impressive. I don't know of any other large-scale features in nature that are so straight.

The website says some really wacky stuff, but I'll be very interested to see the higher-res images from Cassini's close flyby in late 2007.

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: FirstMateJack on June 23, 2006, 07:52:56 PM

Kinda reminds me of the "rabbit" they found on Mars. Anyone else see this?


http://www.weirdload.com/nasa-shame.html

This site here is a pretty cool place to go for the less......I suppose the best phrase would be, quick-to-assume-life-everywhere-else type answers to most these questions.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/hoagland/bunny.html

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on June 24, 2006, 11:11:15 PM

Okay, I found somewhere else that pointed out that accretion disks--rings like Saturn's rings--are straight, and that Iapetus' straight mountain range at the equator could come from a ring settling out under low gravity.

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: Fellfrosch on June 26, 2006, 04:14:18 PM

Interesting. I still like the theory that it's a weld line, but this makes a lot more sense.

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: FirstMateJack on June 26, 2006, 05:43:21 PM

Weld line? I think it is a cancer.

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on June 27, 2006, 09:04:20 AM

It's a "spare tire." Iapetus really needs to lose weight.

Title: Re: Saturn's moon Iapetus is an artificial constru
Post by: FirstMateJack on June 28, 2006, 02:24:01 PM

It's really two gigantic coconuts glued together..poorly.