Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Interesting synchronicity: Saturn's bizarre moon Iapetus . . .






. . . bears a passing resemblance to this metal sphere.



Posted by Mac at 10:13 PM

8 comments:

KennyJC said...

Send that picture to Richie Hoagland and he'll come up with a theory on Iapetians visiting earth under the guise of metal spheres.lol

11:44 PM
Mac said...

I have a Wild Theory about Iapetus, but I'm sitting on it until I can check a few facts...

11:48 PM
TheUltimateCyn said...

omg, Mac you may have something here... how very odd... man, I love your mind! You rock!

6:49 AM
Anonymous said...

It would be interesting to know what George Lucas makes of the uncanny resemblance between Iapetus and his Star Wars' Death Star (and who dreamt the latter up). It would be even more interesting to know what Sir Arthur C. Clarke makes of the similarities with his "2001" film/novel and of Iapetus in general. Sir Arthur is never afraid to speak against the prevailing paradigm (even when he occasionaly gets egg on his face for doing so - as with the unfortunate "glass tunnels" on Mars episode). He doesn't seem to have a personal web site of his own, or even a blog, and I have never found a way to unobtrusively plug into his thoughts on current developments in space science (I rather baulk at the idea of writing him a letter to ask him).

P.s. Was your ball solid or hollow? (It could be a synchronistic clue.) ;)

4:34 PM
Mac said...

Hollow, I'm sure. Looks like some art students joined two hemispherical "bowls."

4:38 PM
Anonymous said...

Ah, that proves it then. ;)

4:49 PM
W.M. Bear said...

And this just in on New Scientist. Somebody HAS come up with a "natural" explanation for the equatorial ridge a.k.a. "The Wall." I would award it the Richard Hoagland prize for biggest violation of Occam's razor by a scientific theory. Hope the link works OK but if not, you get the idea:

New Scientist Latest Iapetus Article

8:28 PM
Mac said...

Thanks, WMB. I haven't read NS's article yet, but I encountered another one about Iapetus getting slapped with one of Saturn's rings. I'll check this out.

11:34 PM