D. Shards, Octagons, Craters, and Towers versus “Incessant Meteoric Bombardment”
The surface of the
Moon boasts a number of features suggestive of an artificial origin
for themselves, and possibly for the Moon as a whole.
One of the strangest
of these is the so-called “Shard” located south west of the
Sinus Medii region of the Moon. The
photo is from the Lunar Orbiter frame III-84M. The shadow of the
object is clearly visible extending from the bottom of the
structure to the lower right hand comer of the picture. The strange
“star-like’ light on the top of the structure is a camera
registration mark and not actually a part of the
structure.
The Sinus Medii “Shard” on the Moon
However, why call
this strange object a “structure” at all? For one thing, it
stretches some one and a half miles
above the surface of the Moon. It is, in other words, enormous. But
the fact that it is there are all raises certain questions.
According to the standard model, the Moon is supposedly subjected
to an unceasing rain of meteors, a “bombardment” that would batter
down sharp edges and jagged mountains into smooth, rounded hills
over the billions of years the Moon has existed. Yet, there it
stands, with its strangely regular “twisted” or “spiral” geometry.
The object not only exists, in spite of this unceasing meteoric
rain, but it has preserved some apparently basic, structural
geometry.
Yet another odd
feature not explainable by the standard “meteoric bombardment”
model are the presence on the surface of the Moon of craters and
other oddly rectilinear formations,
formations almost impossible to explain on the basis of natural
geological processes, much less those of meteoric bombardment. For
example, how would one explain the origin of the oddly rectilinear
polygons in the following photograph?
Note in particular
the two very tiny pyramidal like objects in the left center of the
picture. But most importantly, how would one explain the
octagonal “crater” toward the bottom
center? The meteoric bombardment is obvious from the picture. By
the same token however, the rectilinear polygon shapes of some of
these “craters” suggests the presence of an underlying structure
and order.
Similar rectilinear
structure is found in the following photo.
“Pie Slice” on the Moon
Note the pie “slice”
cut to the left center of the picture, the “tower” like object
immediately above it, and the two “double craters” to the right
side of the picture. Again, meteoric bombardment over billions of
years should have obliterated such features long ago. And no known
geological mechanism would seem to account for such neat and precise regularity. The presence of such
features once again seems to suggest an artificial
origin.