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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hoagland? What's the deal?
- Date: 27 Dec 1992 11:52:37 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <athos-171292165134@kip2-16.apple.com> <1992Dec18.145633.15270@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com> <BzGzMz.2zp@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,<roelle.724974838@uars_mag>
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- In article <roelle.724974838@uars_mag>, roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
- =graham@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (JIM GRAHAM) writes:
- =
- =>In article <1992Dec18.145633.15270@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>, mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary) writes...
- =
- =>>He also claims that the only reason the Mars Observer has a camera
- =>>is too investigate the "face" and that NASA knows something but
- =>>is keeping the public in the dark.
- =
- =>What I dread is that NASA/JPL may claim that they could not get a shot
- =>of the Cydonia region. This is entirely possible.
- =
- =>The unfortunate part of this is that their failure to image that region
- =>with MO will be taken as further fuel to the conspiracy of silence.
- =
- =>So, I would think that it would be in their best interest, if there
- =>is no conspiracy, to go out of their way to get images of the region.
- =
- =On the other hand an attempt by NASA to intentionally image that
- =particular region -- especially going out of their way to do so
- =(whatever that means and however they do so) -- with MO can also fuel
- =the conspiracy of "See there! Something funny's going on at Mars, and
- =NASA knows something they aren't telling!"
-
- True, and quite unfortunate, since the face-freaks managed to convince a few
- key Congressmen to enact a bill that specifically requires MO to look at
- Cydonia. NASA was already planning to take a look anyway, but the Congressmen
- decided to kill a few more trees so that the already-planned mapping would have
- their imprimature.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
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- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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