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From: [e-mail] (JIM GRAHAM)
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Subject: Re: Hoagland? What's the deal?
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Date: 27 Dec 92 18:34:22 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Carl J Lydick) writes...
>In article <roelle.724974838@uars_mag>, roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
>=[e-mail] (JIM GRAHAM) writes:
>=
>=>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (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.

Yes.  I thought I'd heard this before.

I wonder why NASA has never mentioned that they are _legally bound_ to
do this?

>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: [e-mail] | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
>
>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
>unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
>organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
>hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.

Jim Graham

        -> ->Disclaimer: I do not speak for my company. <- <-
                          Neither do they speak for me.
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