Light Eye
03-17-2005, 11:22 AM
Dear Friends,
Here's part V of Richard Hoaglands interesting article concerning Iapetus. I've
only posted a few paragraphs.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon5.htm
Be Well, Be Love.
David
Moon with a View:
Or, What Did Arthur Know ? and When Did He Know it?
Part 5
By Richard C. Hoagland
ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ÂÃÂÃÂé 2005 The Enterprise Mission
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little
way past them ? into the impossible."
-- Clarke?s Second Law
Since ?Moon with a View? was originally posted, reaction has been varied ? to
say the least!
Some, on reading, have become intrigued. Others are repelled. And some,
typified by this truly wondrous comment on ?Coast to Coast AM? a few nights ago
? ?This time Hoagland has really walked off the cliff!? ? are simply, as the
phrase goes, ?out to lunch.?
Fundamental to many criticisms of this theory is the scale of the construction
we?re proposing. These critics see the entire idea of an ?artificial moon? ?
and one almost a thousand miles across -- as totally preposterous, mainly
because of the size of such an undertaking. What they forget is that some of
these (artificial world) ideas are actually quite old ? and increasingly
achievable ? even (as you will see) within the constraints of current technology
and physics!
Their most famous incarnation is, in major part, due to Princeton University?s
Institute for Advanced Studies? professor, Dr. Freeman Dyson. Almost half a
century ago, Dyson published a remarkable idea in the prestigious mainstream
journal, Science [Dyson, F. J. "Search for Artificial Sources of Infrared
Radiation," Science, 131, 1667 (1959)] ? which described something termed a
?Dyson Sphere.? Dyson ended his Science paper with the following conclusion:
?I think I have shown that there are good scientific reasons for taking
seriously the possibility that life and intelligence can succeed in molding this
universe of ours to their own purposes [emphasis added] ?.?
In Dyson?s 1950?s calculations, he envisioned huge, artificial planets -- built
from the ?disassembly? of a star?s natural planetary system, and its subsequent
reassembly into a vast number of smaller, precisely engineered artificial
worlds. The resulting ?Dyson Sphere,? in Dyson?s speculations, seemed the
largest artificial structures that an advanced civilization could probably ever
technologically create. And as such, he believed, they might even be observable
light years away, with our ?primitive? technology from Earth ?.
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Here's part V of Richard Hoaglands interesting article concerning Iapetus. I've
only posted a few paragraphs.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon5.htm
Be Well, Be Love.
David
Moon with a View:
Or, What Did Arthur Know ? and When Did He Know it?
Part 5
By Richard C. Hoagland
ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂà ÂÃÂÃÂé 2005 The Enterprise Mission
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little
way past them ? into the impossible."
-- Clarke?s Second Law
Since ?Moon with a View? was originally posted, reaction has been varied ? to
say the least!
Some, on reading, have become intrigued. Others are repelled. And some,
typified by this truly wondrous comment on ?Coast to Coast AM? a few nights ago
? ?This time Hoagland has really walked off the cliff!? ? are simply, as the
phrase goes, ?out to lunch.?
Fundamental to many criticisms of this theory is the scale of the construction
we?re proposing. These critics see the entire idea of an ?artificial moon? ?
and one almost a thousand miles across -- as totally preposterous, mainly
because of the size of such an undertaking. What they forget is that some of
these (artificial world) ideas are actually quite old ? and increasingly
achievable ? even (as you will see) within the constraints of current technology
and physics!
Their most famous incarnation is, in major part, due to Princeton University?s
Institute for Advanced Studies? professor, Dr. Freeman Dyson. Almost half a
century ago, Dyson published a remarkable idea in the prestigious mainstream
journal, Science [Dyson, F. J. "Search for Artificial Sources of Infrared
Radiation," Science, 131, 1667 (1959)] ? which described something termed a
?Dyson Sphere.? Dyson ended his Science paper with the following conclusion:
?I think I have shown that there are good scientific reasons for taking
seriously the possibility that life and intelligence can succeed in molding this
universe of ours to their own purposes [emphasis added] ?.?
In Dyson?s 1950?s calculations, he envisioned huge, artificial planets -- built
from the ?disassembly? of a star?s natural planetary system, and its subsequent
reassembly into a vast number of smaller, precisely engineered artificial
worlds. The resulting ?Dyson Sphere,? in Dyson?s speculations, seemed the
largest artificial structures that an advanced civilization could probably ever
technologically create. And as such, he believed, they might even be observable
light years away, with our ?primitive? technology from Earth ?.
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