2. The Equigravisphere and Other Gravitational Problems
Why were the early
Soviet and American attempts to orbit or land probes on the Moon so
unsuccessful? Clearly neither the Russians nor the Americans lacked
the mathematical talent to calculate a proper trajectory for
spacecraft going to the Moon, unless there was
some hidden problem that made accurate calculations
erroneous. As an example of this problem, many have pointed
out that Dr. Werner Von Braun let slip an interesting piece of
information after the first successful Apollo landing, in an
interview to Time magazine in 1969. In
the interview, Von Braun revealed that the neutral point for the
gravitational attraction between the Earth and the Moon was
approximately 43,500 miles from the lunar surface. This was over
twenty thousand miles further away from the surface of the Moon if
the Moon were only 1/6th of the
gravitational attraction of the Earth.
Yet another problem
was revealed during these early space probes and the subsequent
Apollo missions. Orbiting spacecraft would suddenly “dip” and
accelerate over certain very localized areas of the lunar surface,
those areas precisely known as the lunar “maria” or “seas,” the
dark glassy areas of the Moon found only on the side facing the
Earth. These concentrations of heavy mass were called appropriately
enough “mascons,” and they could only mean that there was present
beneath the lunar surface in these areas dense concentrations of
some very heavy matter. Yet, no naturalistic explanation has yet
been advanced for these formations that can account for their
presence through random processes.
But the final
gravitational anomaly may be the most significant one, and that is
the anomaly related to the Russian space probe Luna 7’s early
firing of its retro-rockets. It was natural for the Russians to
assume that the Moon was a solid, homogeneous “rock” floating in
space. In these circumstances, retro-rockets may be fired fairly
early. But if the Moon were not a
“solid rock” floating in space, but was either of greatly differing
densities of material on its interior, or even worse, hollow, then this would change everything.
Retro-rockets would have to fire later and burn
faster.
The reason is
relatively simple. If the Moon was a solid rock, then the center of
gravity is farther away from the surface one is landing on, and
hence, one may fire retro-rockets earlier, and burned at a slower
rate. Conversely, if the Moon is hollow, the center of gravity
shifts towards the surface one wishes to land on, and thus one
would fire retro-rockets later and burn them faster in order to
effect a soft landing. Indeed, in the July 1982 issue of
Atsronautics magazine, Dr. Gordon
McDonald of NASA actually reported that a NASA study of the Moon’s
motion revealed that it moved more like a hollow object than a
solid one, i.e., that the material in its interior was much less
dense than that toward its surface.592
So gravitationally,
the Moon is almost completely unlike any other celestial object man
has encountered. Even if one does not
accept the possibility that its gravity might be much more then the
1/6th gravity that prevailed before
Von Braun’s significant revelation about the distance of the
neutral point between the Earth and the Moon, one is still left
with the difficulties of physical mechanics that the Earth should
even have such a large satellite based
on a random “capture” of a passing celestial body, much less have
it in precisely the perfectly “circular” orbit that it has. The
gravitational problem of such a capture is further enhanced by the
presence of the anomalous regions of greater mass concentrations
beneath the maria, the “mascons,” for their presence would make any
such “capture” somewhat “wobbly.” And finally, there is the problem
of all those early space probes, careening wildly by the Moon, or,
retro-rockets firing as if to soft land on a solid rock, and
instead crashing straight into it.
This led two Soviet
scientists to draw what was by then an obvious, but very
uncomfortable, conclusion: the Moon was not a planet in any normal
sense at all. It was an artificial body. It was a gigantic
spaceship. This idea became, in fact, the subject of a “UFO
classic” in the 1970’s in a book by Don Wilson called Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon. The book contains a
goldmine of details on strange lunar anomalies, and, in spite of
its popularity, has never been republished.
In any case, if this
“spaceship Moon” hypothesis were ever to be confirmed, however, its
relevance to the Cosmic War hypothesis and scenario outlined here
is rather obvious, for a civilization in possession of a physics
and technology capable of wreaking giant regional scarring on the
surfaces of planets, or of exploding one, would likely also be
capable of other similarly huge “mega-engineering” projects. But
even if, as is much more likely, the Moon is not an artificial
body, it still contains sufficient anomalies to suggest that it may
once have been an outpost of the civilization that waged that
cosmic war. And the problem of how it got there
remains.