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SUBJECT: COMPARISON OF MARSFACE TO ANCIENT RUINS FILE: UFO1750
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University of South Florida
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Tampa St. Petersburg Fort Myers Satasota
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Department of Religious Studies
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Tampa, FLA 33620-5550
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813: 974-2221
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March 17, 1989
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Mr. Richard C. Hoagland
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%The Mars Mission
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P.O. Box 981
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Wytheville, VA 24382
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Dear Dick,
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Thanks very much for the new information about the large pyramid of the
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Cydonia complex lying precisely upon Mars geodedic north latitude 40.87
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degrees, the tangent of which is e/pi. That is quite impressive, as it is
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an empirically-derived location, not one produced by adjusting the framework
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of latitude to fit the observations.
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Of course I am not speaking as a space scientist, but I think I can
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comment as an archaeologist on the results so far obtained. It seems to me
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that we now have a set of detailed correlations of mathematical constants
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with surface features, which are at the very least suggestive. The only
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hypotheses that are any good in science are those that are falsifiable and
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testable. If I were looking at comparable data from some ordinary but
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inaccessible place on Earth, then it seems to me that the next step would
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be to form a falsifiable and testable hypothesis, namely, that these
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structures and mathematical correlations were produced by design. I would
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then suggest that the next step would be a close look -- first in a low-
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altitude fly-over, then in survey by foot, and finally test by excavation.
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If we apply this line of reasoning to the Cydonia complex, then the
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immediate implication is that we should go have a look, perhaps by some kind
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of space probe that can produce photos with good resolution in several kinds
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of light. Therefore it seems reasonable to me to press for a Mars Probe that
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is charged, among other things, with sending back low-altitude, high-
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resolution photography of Cydonia. The second line of reasoning leads to
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the conclusion that we should send a manned Mars probe to investigate this
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and the other [enigmatic and highly-suggestive] features of the red planet.
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One night twenty years ago I was at Tell Gezer in Israel, sitting on a
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wall built in 1400 BC, when a friend from Harvard walked up and announced
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that man had landed on the Moon. What better time to go to Mars than on the
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twentieth anniversary of our trip to the Moon?
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I hope for success in persuading those in position to make decisions
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affecting this proposal. It is not important whether we believe there ever
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was "life on Mars," it is only important that you and others have developed
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some important correlations, even stunningly important correlations of
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mathematical constants with surface features, and we need to follow up
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properly and scientifically.
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Of course, you are welcome to quote from this letter.
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Sincerely yours,
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James F. Strange, Professor
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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