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originally posted by: thebtheb
I find it to be a pretty interesting video. And nothing has really been proven about as much as nothing's been truly debunked. The words of the guy who wanted to see the high res pictures at Nasa and what he said when he saw them: say what you will, "He's lying," etc. I just don't believe everyone is lying, certainly not the amount of people that have been in his position and said similar things. For me, yes, it's as easy as that to have me leaning far closer to that direction rather than "everything is a hoax."
originally posted by: bottleslingguy
because they don't want us to know its been inhabited for a long time. they want it to come out in drips and drabs and only to the point that we find bacteria and not established civilizations. a reply to: JadeStar
Two researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have made a rather controversial proposal: have the public and other researchers study the high-resolution photographs of the Moon already being taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), to look for anomalies that may possibly be evidence of artifacts leftover from previous alien visitation. The theory is that if our solar system had been visited in the past, the Moon would have made an ideal base from which to study the Earth. The paper has just been recently published in the journal Acta Astronautica.
Professor Paul Davies and research technician Robert Wagner admit that the chances of success are very small, but argue that the endeavour would be worth the minimal investment required. The photographs are already being taken on a regular basis by LRO. Any interesting finds could be examined by others including imaging professionals. Shape-recognizing software could also be used to help discern any possible artificial artifacts from natural ones.
From the abstract:
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has a low probability of success, but it would have a high impact if successful. Therefore it makes sense to widen the search as much as possible within the confines of the modest budget and limited resources currently available. To date, SETI has been dominated by the paradigm of seeking deliberately beamed radio messages.
However, indirect evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence could come from any incontrovertible signatures of non-human technology. Existing searchable databases from astronomy, biology, earth and planetary sciences all offer low-cost opportunities to seek a footprint of extraterrestrial technology. In this paper we take as a case study one particular new and rapidly-expanding database: the photographic mapping of the Moon’s surface by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to 0.5 m resolution. Although there is only a tiny probability that alien technology would have left traces on the moon in the form of an artifact or surface modification of lunar features, this location has the virtue of being close, and of preserving traces for an immense duration.
Systematic scrutiny of the LRO photographic images is being routinely conducted anyway for planetary science purposes, and this program could readily be expanded and outsourced at little extra cost to accommodate SETI goals, after the fashion of the SETI@home and Galaxy Zoo projects.
originally posted by: thebtheb
I find it to be a pretty interesting video. And nothing has really been proven about as much as nothing's been truly debunked. The words of the guy who wanted to see the high res pictures at Nasa and what he said when he saw them: say what you will, "He's lying," etc. I just don't believe everyone is lying, certainly not the amount of people that have been in his position and said similar things. For me, yes, it's as easy as that to have me leaning far closer to that direction rather than "everything is a hoax."
originally posted by: Ectoplasm8
That "wagon wheel" photograph looks more like a giant bowl of Honeycomb cereal. Equally ridiculous: