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Old 06-May-2009, 06:12 PM
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Default 200,000 Year Old Statue Found On Moon

I found a site that has this news 10-inch angel sculpture embedded in a moon rock has been found ?

one of the rocks brought to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts 40 years ago, in 1969.


sculpture to be 200,000 years old which means it was made 170,000 years before the human species appeared

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I found a site that has this news 10-inch angel sculpture embedded in a moon rock has been found ?

one of the rocks brought to Earth by Apollo 11 astronauts 40 years ago, in 1969.
I'm going to go out on a limb and just say NO.

Sounds like an old National Inquirer story.
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I would be skeptical they could find a 200,000 year old sculpture in A11 moon rocks, simply because those were studied a long time ago and they didn't find it then.

Also, I doubt RCH theory that life ever existed on moon. No air, no water, hard to envision any life there.
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sculpture to be 200,000 years old which means it was made 170,000 years before the human species appeared
Not exactly. The Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis was already present by then.
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A quick Google on "Dr. Morris Charles NASA" found that there is a Dr. Morris E.K. Charles who has some publications with NASA, but they are all on things like "Technologies for the National Aero-Space Plane", not geology.

There is also a Charles S. Morris that has written some stuff on comets. There also is a Charles S. Morris who has published a paper on "Evaluation of the TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter system over the Great Lakes" (something about measuring water levels).

The only other links I can find are from websites like abovetopsecret.com on this silly statue (rehashing of the same story linked to by the OP).
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Not exactly. The Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis was already present by then.
The classification of Neanderthals as part of Homo sapiens is disputed. However, contemporary African populations are near-universally regarded as H. sapiens.
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I would be skeptical they could find a 200,000 year old sculpture in A11 moon rocks, simply because those were studied a long time ago and they didn't find it then.

Also, I doubt RCH theory that life ever existed on moon. No air, no water, hard to envision any life there.
RCH and (most) anomaly hounds actually believe the moon was some sort of waystation or outpost. They claim that Mars once held a civilization, Iapetus was an alien construct, and that the moon itself housed a portion of the civilization selected to observe the goings-on on Earth.

So whereas they are not saying something as silly as there once being *indigenous* freely roaming life on the Moon, they still open up a whole new can of woo by trying to see "artificiality" on every single body in our solar system.

It's so ridiculous that it is almost painful.
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The classification of Neanderthals as part of Homo sapiens is disputed. However, contemporary African populations are near-universally regarded as H. sapiens.
Yeah, my intent was putting things in perspective.
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Sounds like an old National Inquirer story.
I think it's Weekly World News in this case. At least, I saw a link to there.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and just say NO.

Sounds like an old National Inquirer story.
More like a Weekly World News story.
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However, contemporary African populations are near-universally regarded as H. sapiens.
(My bold)
I didn't know this. Which populations are not?

(Just asking, not disputing.)
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Just to be clear: Weekly World News should not be taken seriously. This is a joke.
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Erik von Datiken, eh? A spoof, Truth. Nothing more.
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Sounds like an old National Inquirer story.
Weekly World News:

http://weeklyworldnews.com/alien-ale...found-on-moon/
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Added: Well dang. There I go again not reading the whole thread before I post.

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I found a site that has this news 10-inch angel sculpture embedded in a moon rock has been found ?]
You don't believe it, do you?

Aren't your critical-thinking skills able to handle obvious frauds like this without asking for advice here?
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It's not even a Fraud, it's a deliberate joke?
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It's not even a Fraud, it's a deliberate joke?
Well, here's the Wikipedia article on WWN:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_World_News

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The WWN traditionally claimed that it always printed the truth (typical slogan: "Nothing but the truth: The Weekly World News!"). Many stories, however, appeared to have comedic intent. Confirming this, in Batboy Lives! a semi-serious introduction admitted that while Reader A reads the tabloid for real news, Reader B will read it for laughs. While the tabloid's main rival, Sun, carried a fine print disclaimer, the WWN never publicly questioned the accuracy of its own stories until 2004, when the paper began stating that "the reader should suspend disbelief for the sake of enjoyment".
It does mention that it occasionally has "strange but true" stories, but those are rare. Given this story, and the fact that we can't even confirm the names of the people in the story, let alone any other details, I'd just call it a joke.
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A quick Google on "Dr. Morris Charles NASA" found that there is a Dr. Morris E.K. Charles who has some publications with NASA, but they are all on things like "Technologies for the National Aero-Space Plane", not geology.
Just for the fun of it, I tried a few variations on that and also looked for "Miles Fredericks new york university" (also named in the article). Except for references in copies of the article, these scientists seem to have kept a rather low profile.
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Ok, Ok...you guys are relentless.

In my own defense, I did say "sounds like".
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So NASA hides a 200,000-year-old alien artifact for 40 years.... when instead of limping from year-to-year on their degrading budgets when they could be getting many many more BILLION$ a year to research such a discovery???

.....yeah, right.....
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why is this news story not on breaking news on tv right now ?

This is huge if its real...It would change history on a human time frame level as to finding a object that had to be made by something
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Well, if it was found in the famous Blue Area of the Moon....



What? Uatu has been there for millions of years with nothing to do but watch. You think he wouldn't take up whittling to pass the time?
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Have you not read any of the posts since your last one?
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why is this news story not on breaking news on tv right now ?

This is huge if its real...
It's not real. I suggest you read the thread.

When you come across stories like this, you should be asking questions about why you aren't hearing more about it. You should adopt a skeptical stance, and do some checking, as we have.
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The photo shows a woman behind a plastic barrier holding something
for photographers and reporters to see. The angel figurine has been
pasted into the photo to make it appear that it is what the woman
was holding. I'm curious as to what she was actually holding. Can
anyone track it down? Any clues in the image as to the location?
My guess is that the photo was taken in Britain. The people look
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why is this news story not on breaking news on tv right now ?

This is huge if its real...
I think you've answered your own question...
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ya if it was real NASA would have it in a glass box so when people walked inside nasa they would all see.
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The name quoted for a Geolosit, does not show up in any known Geologic or Vulanologic sources for accredited people. It is a foney name and a foney degree.
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There's no "Dr. Miles Fredericks" listed on the NYU site either.
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Yes, that matches my results (and Swift's). I suspect that's deliberate - the writer did not want to have someone complaining about misrepresentation.
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