![]() In his public lectures, he shows slides illustratingĭozens of triangles formed by taking various points in the Cydonia regionĪs vertices and also listing various numerical relationships involving Relationships that he presents in his book. Richard Hoagland seems to be quite attached to all of the mathematical To my surprise,Īrt Bell confronted Richard Hoagland on the air with my challenge, but To Art Bell and a number of his frequent guests. To directly challenge Hoagland to a debate. As I mention in the essay below, I eventually decided So instead, I sent several faxes to Art Bell on this topic, whichĮxplained my point of view in a simplified way, but these were never read I told him that I would be willing, but such aĭebate never did happen. He might be able to pursuade Hoagland to respond. Later, I wrote to Stanley McDaniel, thinking that After that, I wrote to him several times, but he On my part to convince him that scientists were quite right to reject that Relationships like the ones that he presents in his book. That simple experimentĭemonstrated how easily one can find striking patterns of mathematical ![]() In the Fall of 1996, I gave HoaglandĪ summary of the numerical experiment mentioned above. Over the past several years to challenge Hoagland on this issue seem to Quite frankly, I don't know if it is worthwhile. Is it really worthwhile responding to that? "alignments" that he and others have noticed, Hoagland offers some probabilityĪrguments which are completely "a posteriori" and therefore have He presents have any merit as scientific evidence. ![]() That all of the mathematical relationships for the D&M Pyramid that Hoagland never makes any serious attempt to justify his professed belief Writing this essay, I wondered if it is really worth the time and trouble. Of why I find this mathematical evidence fallacious. In the following rather long essay I attempt to give a detailed explanation The results confirmed that my intuition was very well-foundedĪnd so, from my perspective, the mathematical evidence presented in Hoagland'sīook is quite fallacious and hardly worthy of being presented as serious I then decided to do a simple numerical experiment with randomlyĬhosen numbers. The kinds of mathematical relationships which he describes are not at all But my intuition as a mathematician told me that Mathematical relationships, which he seems to regard as strong evidenceįor artificiality. Photographic evidence, Hoagland discusses at considerable length various The 1970s) showing some formations, such as the Face and the D&M Pyramid, This includes photographs (which come from the Viking mission in Look at the evidence presented in his book The Monuments of Mars Hoagland discuss this topic on the Art Bell Show, I decided to take a close I was completely unaware of this controversial issue. Intelligent civilization that once lived there. Letter to Richard Hoagland, dated August 28th, 2002įor many years Richard Hoagland has been the most conspicuous proponentįor the idea that the Face on Mars and various other formations in theĬydonia region of that planet are artificial objects constructed by an ![]() What they want are more photos of what appear to be pyramids nearby, something NASA said it will consider taking April 14 and 23.THE D&M PYRAMID ON MARS AND RICHARD HOAGLAND'S THEORIES ABOUT CYDONIA Hoagland and other believers in Cydonia monuments say the pictures are just the face in a different light and different photo angles from Viking. Then NASA and Malin enhanced the gray areas in the photo to show some contrast. Those images spurred a movement by people who think the face and nearby pyramids are artificial landmarks from some lost civilization.įor the first time, NASA put up raw images – which looked like little more than blobs of gray – on the World Wide Web before cleaning up and enhancing the pictures. Global Surveyor mission manager Glenn Cunningham said the image of Cydonia’s so-called face was taken with morning light instead of afternoon light that illuminated the original 1976 photos of Cydonia by NASA’s Viking probe. It’s not as close as NASA wanted, but officials said they were happy. The probe photographed Cydonia from 271 miles above Mars, at a sort of cockeyed angle. It was right in the middle of the field of view.” Hitting this was something of an accomplishment,” said Mike Ravine, advanced projects manager at Malin Space Science System, the San Diego company that designed the Mars Orbiter Camera. They said given problems with mapping and navigation, there was only a one-in-three chance they’d even find the right part of Cydonia to photograph. But NASA and the company that built the cameras on the space probe said they were happy to capture the image of Cydonia, whatever it is.
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