Space Agency Higher-ups hiding The Truth™ again to prevent world-wide panic...again. I guess we should be thankful.

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I've been searching for it all day. It looks like a legitimate media photo of a lady at a museum or art gallery holding up the "angel" for news people to see. The "angel" is also in the circular inset at the bottom right of the photo.

I've seen so many old stone Angels on Google today, I would guess this one could be a thousand or more years old. Probably found somewhere in Europe and put on display somewhere. I think the object is legit, but certainly not found on the moon.

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PS: I just enlarged the lady's hand, and I think it is possible that the stone angel might have been added to the photo.

Here is a link to a similar sculpture available for purchase:

https://indiastewart.com/store2/popu...00eddfe84ccb39

i didn't find elements about its location and eventual official images not zoomed showig this object
anyone found it ?
if not it's probably an horrible fake

Whatever you do... don't BLINK!

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Ah, I didn't catch that earlier. I just looked at the original article at WWN. That's the pseudonym of the author, obviously based on "Erich von Däniken." Might as well be saying, "April Fools."

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If it was REAL and that Important then NASA would have it someplace in a laser vault.

Roll up your pant legs, folks. It's too late to save your shoes.

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The Claim:

From the article cited in the OP:

Source: http://thecrit.com/2009/05/05/200000...found-on-moon/

So we are told that a ten inch sculpture was found in a rock that was picked up from the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, during the Apollo 11 mission.


The Evidence:

From the official catalog of the lunar samples returned by Apollo 11, we have a description largest single rock they brought back:

Source: Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Catalog
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11SampleCat.pdf (page 246)

Note the size in the description of Sample 10057: 11 x 10 x 6 centimeters.

That's 4.33 inches by 3.94 inches by 2.36 inches.


Conclusion:

This claim is a crock, prima facie. There's no way anybody is gonna stuff a 10 inch sculpture into a 4 inch rock. The bozos couldn't even bother to pick an Apollo mission that brought home reasonably large rocks. (Apollo 16 brought home the largest moon rock ever. I don't know if that one is even large enough to hold a ten inch angle, nor do I care to research this any further.)

I can't believe we actually encourage people to post this stuff, much less discuss it. But here I am.

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This laser vault idea fascinates me. Is it a vault with a bunch of lasers in it? A vault with walls defined by lasers? A holographic vault that stores images of what might be inside on keepsake cards from National Geographic?

I'm going to put lasers on my lawnmower.

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The article was originally written here :

http://weeklyworldnews.com/alien-ale...found-on-moon/

The author is "Erik Van Datiken"..

People are actually taking it seriously...

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That's what I said. You quoted me saying it.

Except that I didn't need to enlarge the image. It is obvious that
the angel was pasted in. (Maybe the pixels are larger on my monitor.
That's likely. It's set to 800x600.)

I think the purple color of the gloves indicates that they are nitrile,
as opposed to latex or other material. It might even be a medical
industry standard. I'd guess that the woman is a physician or other
medical worker. But the plastic barrier is an oddity. That's what
makes me curious.

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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Not relentless enough, apparently.

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The "near-universally" refers to being considered, not to populations; a few researchers would hive off these 'archaic' humans into one or a few additional species.

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Oh, come now. I hear about rocks being folded all the time from geologists.

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Sorry everyone, but I don't understand why the name "Erik von Datiken" gives away that the article is fake?

EDIT: Also, TRUTHisnotfacts, the article is a load of bollocks. Is it that hard to accept this?

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Erich von Däniken. Some of his books were even published in Dutch. ("Waren De Goden Kosmonauten?" IIRC). He's one of those "aliens helped Man" pseudo .. well, somethings.

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I think the WWN writers were having a bit of fun by using a variation of von Däniken's name. By the way, years ago I picked up a copy of his 1992 book, Neue kosmische Spuren, while looking into RCH's 1999 Abydos claims.

Sorry to be a spoil sport, but this is all very unconvincing.

First, why should a geologist make scientific conclusion not based on his field of expertise? Dr. Morris states that because of the figurine he concedes that the moon must have had an atmosphere. It's not his geological expertise that led him to this conclusion! Most fishy!
Second, there is not much iron on the moon and considering the abundance of oxygen I'd guess there are better suited metals for posteriority.
Third, none of the moon missions went to the highlands.

Extracelestial

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No reason to be "sorry"...I think that most "folks" on this board post/lurk here because they actually want to know how things work.

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Because nobody with a Dutch-sounding name has a lick of sense.
Everyone knows that.

BTW, when did Everyone post in this thread? I can't find a post by him.

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Me thinks you need a "smillie" there...

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point of rockets is to explore them!" -- Kai Yeves

You seem not to "get it". You'd be surprised what you can't "get away with" here...

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I got it, but somebody explained it to me first

I finally got it, but it "cost" me a year.

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Haha, I got the joke. :P

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Sorry, don't understand that sentence. Are you talking about a few tribes? Individuals? I need names! (So I can wiki...)

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I was going to ask if TRUTHisnotfacts ever returns to the threads that he or she begins, or does he or she simply ask deliberately nonsensical questions and then sit back as people respond?

Apparently the former, then, judging by this post. Possibly just to keep people reacting.