Books : Monuments of Mars, 4th Ed.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 999.23
EAN: 9781883319304
ISBN: 1883319307
Label: Frog Books
Manufacturer: Frog Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 600
Publication Date: October 01, 1996
Publisher: Frog Books
Release Date: October 01, 1996
Sales Rank: 849496
Studio: Frog Books
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In 1976, NASA sent four Viking spacecraft to Mars to photograph the planet and test for the presence of life. One of the orbiters photographed a mile-long mesa that uncannily resembled a human face. Hoagland takes readers step by step through the NASA images and evidence that a former civilization may have lived on Mars. Photos, maps, and charts.
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Excellent book . I had original copy back in the 80's but lost it. New edition has more info than old one. I am an astronomy lover for most of my life and this book confirms my belief that other beings exist.
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I prefer to believe that the simplest answer is generally the one that is correct, until proven otherwise. This is a concept known to science as parsimony. It is a preference for the least complex explanation of an observation.
Are all of the objects on Mars depicted in photos created by a race of aliens hundreds of thousands of years ago, and were the pyramids at Giza and the Sphinx created by the same aliens? And is NASA and JPL and the NSA, as well as the rest of the powerful governments on Earth all involved in a huge coverup for no apparent reason?
Or were those blurry photos, taken from planetary orbit using 1970's low-res technology, just rocks and shadows of rocks?
Hoaglund jumps to the conclusion that martians built all of these things. He is not a scientist, and offers no testable proof of anything, nor does he demonstrate any evidence of critical thinking.
Analogously, using his brand of so-called logic, it might seem reasonable to a weak minded person to state that, because one sees an image that looks like the Virgin Mary on a waffle, God or Mary must have put it there, or it must be an omen of some sort. It couldn't possibly just be a random shape on a waffle, right?
Hoaglund is not a scientist, but he is a genius at marketing and making money. He rediscovered the concept embodied in the quotation of Tusser, "A fool and his money are soon parted."
I was a fool to read this book, ... Read More
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The book introduces interresting thoughts and is provoking in that aspect, but the "evidence" presented has been debunked not only by NASA but proponents and opponents of NASA and JPL. I could spend the day giving you a varitable works cited of how many minds have debunked this book, but seriously, search Amazon for the tons of books that have better theories and more compelling evidence. The facts about mars alone are more interresting than this guy's analysis of public domain images NASA released at the end of the 70's. To put it simply, It's similar to seeing shapes in clouds, it's not really a pony or a plate of mashed potatoes, what this book is suggesting is that YES, if the clouds look like a pony, TADA! IT'S A PONY. Pick it up for $1 or less but don't fall into the trap.
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Carefully written, well-organized and complete with lengthy and detailed circumstantial evidence and reasoning to lead one to the conclusion that perhaps a civilization of intelligent beings lived on Mars at one time.
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The most compelling part of Dr. Hoaglands thesis that Mars contains structures that were intelligently designed is by far the pictures. He ads to this stunning visual evidence with mathematical evidence, that, while more obscure, is equally compelling. I would quarrel a bit with his conclusion that they must have been put their by a civilization that didn't originally come from there.
The jury really should be out on whether Mars ever supported intelligent life. When/If humans ever get there and start doing some archaelogy, then you can say. But the point is made over and over again in his book that there are many anomalies on Mars that can only be artificial.
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