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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 05:43:29 +0200 Fwd Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 01:09:31 -0500 Subject: New Evidence That Mars Face Is Artificial Received via "alt.paranet.ufo" January 8 at 11.03 local time (GMT + 1 hour): 8. January 1998 09.44.00 alt.paranet.ufo Item From: Tom Pinn, usenet Subject: SPACE:Mars Face/Asteroid Race/Skeptic Put in Place? To: alt.paranet.ufo S P A C E ------------------- RE: Mars Face ORIGINAL FULL ARTICLE: Scripps-Howard, 1/8 The "Face on Mars" is not an optical illusion, reported Dr. Tom Van Flandern, at the 191st national meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) on Wednesday. Van Flandern, who holds a doctorate in astronomy from Yale University, and founded Meta Research, an organization that researches astronomy theories that conflict with mainstream paradigms, said he reached that conclusion after new studies of the Cydonia region. Pictures of Mars'surface taken by the Viking spacecraft, in the 70s, spawned the "Face on Mars" debate when sometimes fuzzy, low resolution pictures appeared to show a gigantic human-like face, pyramids and other structures in the desert-like region. In the decades since, a whole cottage-industry of conspiracy theories, alleged NASA cover-ups and Masonic involvement has grown around the original photos. Van Flandern said he analyzed data from previous studies showing that the Martian north and south poles occupied a different position in the past. A cataclysmic event, such as a meteor impact, relocated the poles to the current positions. He concluded the Cydonia region was once on the Martian equator, with "The Face" oriented perpendicular to the old equator. He said the chance of that orientation occurring naturally was about a 1% probability, shifting the weight of evidence in favor of the Cydonia complex, as it is sometimes called, being artifical. Van Flandern predicted the Mars Global Surveyor's high-resolution cameras will finally determine whether "The Face" is natural, as NASA scientists maintain, or constructed by an earlier civilization. He added that people should prepare themselves for the largest cultural shock of modern times. ----------------------------------------------------------------- RE: Asteroid Race ORIGINAL FULL ARTICLE: U.P.I., 1/8 Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers, led by astrophysicist Jack Hills and his collegue Charles Mader, used computer simulations to predict the results of an asteroid hitting the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The first simulation, using an asteroid 3-miles across, showed the resulting Tsunamis - a fast moving ocean wave that holds its destructive energy - would swamp the entire upper East Coast of the U.S. to the Appalachian Mountains. All the coastal cities in the region, along thousands of miles of coastline, would be hit by immense walls of water and roiling debris. The coasts of France and Portugal would also be destroyed by waves. Hills and Mader estimated a strike from such a large asteroid only happens every 10 million years or so. By comparison, every few thousand years, a small asteroid may hit. Another computer simulation, using a 1,300 feet in diameter asteroid model, ended with the lesser destruction of coastal areas on both sides of the Atlantic, with a Tsunami more than 300 feet high. ------------------------------------------------------------------ RE: Skeptic Put in His Place? ORIGINAL FULL ARTICLE: Associated Press, 1/8 In 1995, researchers hypothesized a large planet was orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, after analyzing light emanating from the distant sun. The analysis indicated the star was wobbling, allegedly from the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. But last February, skeptic David F. Gray, of the University of Western Ontario, disputed the earlier claim, saying 51 Pegasi itself was pulsing, fooling researchers into believing they had found a planet. Now, Gray has retracted his earlier conclusion, saying new observations of the starlight have failed to find the pulsing trait that led to his debunking of the planet theory. He added that a planet may still be the best explanation. _____________________________________________________________ Date: 8 Jan 1998 00:44:00 -0700 From: "Tom Pinn" Subject: SPACE:Mars Face/Asteroid Race/Skeptic Put in Place? Message-ID: <692040$arm@nntp02.primenet.com> Path: news1.tele.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!news.sprintisp.com!sp rintisp!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!glo balcenter1!news.primenet.com!ptp
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