posted on Oct, 27 2010 @ 01:19 PM
reply to post by PuterMan
It requires a certain level of technical ability for a civilisation to find and understand such a monolith
Its not about the understanding of said Monolith, its about the finding. The odds of finding out that a random rock on Phobos, as opposed to some
other body in the Solar System, is actually a message from aliens is phenomenally low. Its even harder than finding a needle in the haystack. It seems
that a sufficiently advanced civilization would want to make it painfully EASY to find such an object, as opposed to placing it randomly on Phobos and
then hoping that we stumble upon it at some point.
reply to post by Nventual
as Aldrin says "the universe put it there".
Well of course the Universe put it there, or it ended up there. I think that Aldrin is trying to stir speculation about aliens though mainly because
public interest in space travel has been waning. Really it is likely to just be an ordinary rock formation with a perfectly ordinary story behind how
it got where it is today.
edit on 27-10-2010 by Titen-Sxull because: (no reason given)