<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Not really. Just that there is a screw loose in the human brain and it's a rather widespread mental disorder, AKA the Delusion. This thread of course, belongs in the SETI forum.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />I think I'll leave it here, though, unless it gets seriously sidestepped into alien life talk. Some threads fit in more than one place; this is an example. It is about alien life (which belongs in SETI) and it is about planetary science & image analysis (which belongs here).<br /><br />One thing I found interesting about the Enterprise website is that it is one of many debunking the "moon hoax" nonsense. But one shouldn't be fooled into thinking it's rational; Hoagland thinks the Apollo pictures HAVE been tampered with, because NASA wouldn't want the world to know about the crystalline aliens that build huge fortresses there..... My main problem with that theory is that it would be in NASA's best interests to find life offworld, and there would be particular financial incentives for any and all NASA employees to announce the existence of extraterrestrial life, because it could easily mean a substantial pay raise. (And that's not even considering the huge academic acclaim such a person would receive.)<br /><br />On the topic of the thread.....<br /><br />Iapetus is an intriguing world. Somebody earlier in this thread commented that it's disappointing when a huge revelation doesn't stare us in the face, but what's amazed me the most about the Cassini mission is how often such huge revelations HAVE leapt out at us. Here we all were, waiting with baited breath to find out if bets could be settled regarding the nature of Cassini Regio on Iapetus. It wasn't hugely surprising to find out that the matter still isn't completely setttled, although Cassini did manage to rule out a few theories. The big shock was finding out that Cassini Regio is NOT the weirdest thing about Iapetus! For three centuries, scien <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>