I have no movie to review tonight because Grimsley came over. We went on a CSUN walk and hung out for a while. Tomorrow night I should have a review for you, and this afternoon I finished my book "The Monuments Of Mars" by Richard Hoagland, which I already told you a little bit about, and because it was such an amazing book I am gonna need to do a lot more research into the subject of ancient ruins on Mars and the Moon.
The Moon is an especially weird planetary body. Take a minute to think how, during a solar eclipse, the Moon exactly covers the body of the Sun, so that only the Sun's corona can be seen.
Is that a coincidence? It's gotta be, right? Any scientist worth his rational salt would tell you so, because - to the majority of scientists (be they astronomers or whatever) - there is no magic in the world, in the Universe. And there certainly is no God. There is only rationality, which in their view can explain everything. Rationality more or less begins and ends at the ability to measure something, be it large or small. So, to a scientist (an astronomer), there would likely be nothing weird about the fact that - from a human viewpoint on Earth - the Moon exactly covers the Sun during an eclipse. It doesn't "mostly" cover it; it covers it exactly, to our eyes here on Earth.
Forget about astronomers and scientists for a moment. We know that they are extremely good at what they do, and we know that the work of science in general has greatly enhanced the ability of humans to live a life that is easier (in many ways), and has allowed humans a great chance to explore the solar system, and possibly even the Universe in centuries to come. We aren't picking on science here, we are merely stating that, because of scientific rigor (as it is called), the body of science often fails to acknowledge a few things that stand out as obvious to some of us in the general public.
Things like The Face On Mars, or all of the very weird mathematical "coincidences" of the Moon, like the fact - which anyone can see with their own eyes - that the Moon covers the Sun exactly during an eclipse.
What do you suppose the odds are that the Moon could be placed in such a position between the Earth and Sun, to block the Sun in such a way?
What do you think you are looking at when you see a photograph of the Face On Mars?
Do you trust your eyes and your intuition, or do you wait for a scientist to explain it to you?
What about 9/11? Did you wake up that morning and witness what was happening as it unfolded on live TV? I did. And I knew right away what my eyes and brain were telling me. I did not need to have the news media and Dick Cheney "explain" it to me. I saw it for myself.
I like to see things for myself. That way, nothing gets skewed by another person's "explanation".
Well, now I am on a tirade and I sound like a big jerk. I don't mean to, it's just that I'd like to see a sense of magic and wonder put back into our explorations of outer and inner space. It's not enough for NASA to show us JPL shots from Mars of the Rover looking out over a rocky landscape. That is a Big Snooze after ten or twenty years since the last Mars probe landed.
In the 1960s, at the beginning of the exploration of space, there was a sense of great wonder and possibility that accompanied every mission. "What is out there"? That is what everyone wanted to know. What is on the dark side of the Moon? What will the astronauts see when they actually land?
What will the Viking probe see on Mars?.
For younger people who are rightfully exited by Elon Musk's Space-X launches, I cannot tell you how exciting it was to actually watch men land on the Moon, and to see it on television. It was mind-blowing. I still have my Moon Globe that my Dad bought me for Christmas 1969, in honor of what had happened that year.
But the problem was that, after Apollo 17 in 1972, the whole thing was basically shut down. And there is a lot of evidence to show that the reason the space program was shut down was because of what they encountered on the Moon, or what they saw there.
Which resulted in an end to a Moon program shared with the American public.
Do you really think they went up there to gather some Moon rocks and call it a day?
Please.
And the same is true with The Face On Mars, which was photographed by Viking four years later in 1976. Once "The Face" was discovered, by a NASA employee, and once Richard Hoagland took it upon himself to undertake a study of The Face and the Cydonia region on Mars in which it is situated, NASA shut down any open scientific discussion of the subject. This is chronicled in Hoagland's book, the struggle between NASA and his own team of researchers to bring to public awareness the discovery of unusual structures at Cydonia.
So once again you had the scientific community putting a stop to public discussion of something unusual that was seen.
And though Richard Hoagland wrote his book, which was a bestseller 20 years ago, we have still been stuck in a rut ever since then, as far as the exploration of Mars is concerned. All we get to see is the same old boring rocky panoramas of the Martian desert.
And so it must be asked again : Do you really think they spent billions of dollars to send a rover up there, to study a rocky landscape for twenty years, after they took pictures of Mars 40 freaking years ago which, in one photograph, showed the world a Face that looked like the Egyptian Sphinx?
It is very important to study human nature, and to understand what motivates people to manipulate others, and to control information. This need to study the processes of the ego cannot be overstated.
If you think that scientists are immune to human nature, or don't have egos, or if you think that NASA is still the open-minded organisation it once was in it's heyday, then you might want to rethink your estimations.
I myself would like to see a return to real progress, in science and in the exploration of space.
We know what's out there. It's time for NASA to stop trying to control that information. Let's make it public, so that we can move forward again as a united Planet Earth, just like we did in the 1960s.
Hey NASA, let's see what you've got. Let's see your pictures.
That's all for tonight. See you in the morn.
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