It’s Friday 13th today, considered to be unlucky by some. Add in a full moon to turn up the fright factor, then consider that we are also in the midst of Mercury retrograde, the planetary period associated with mishap, mayhem and misfortune. Oh dear.
For our own safety, should we just turn off the alarm clock and stay in bed today?
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If you were in possession of documents or artifacts that had to be preserved at all costs, and you were inhabiting a planet with an uncertain future, where would you hide these precious commodities?
Deep underground in a protective bunker? Fathoms under the ocean? Inside a mountain in a secret cave? Preserved within the ice of the polar regions?
Well, the answer is…none of the above.
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Fables have declared for millennia that the Moon, one of the most influential planets in our solar system, is made of green cheese.
The legend arose from an ancient tale that described how a wolf was convinced by his prey, a wiley fox, that the moon’s reflection in a pool was a tasty round cheese. The hapless wolf was persuaded to drink the contents of the pool in an attempt to sink his teeth into the delicious delicacy, whereupon he burst and died, and the clever fox escaped.
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We go deeper into the secrets of the moon, and discover, among other things, that the areas where Richard Hoagland has found most of the images that suggest artificial structures to him have some very unusual properties. So, are there alien bases there or not? And what of Phobos, the mysterious Martian moon that shows lots of evidence of not being a natural object at all?
Louis Proud takes us deeper yet into the mysteries of the moon, and comes up with some of the most surprising and carefully researched discoveries that have appeared in years.
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