E. It Rings, Too!
A “superhard” layer
of material beneath the surface of the Moon impervious to deep
penetration by meteors; dense, localized areas of strong localized
gravity causing orbiting satellites to “dip” and accelerate;
enormously tall “shards” projecting out from the lunar surface in
defiance of the meteoric bombardment; “pie slices” and other
anomalously rectilinear formations on the surface; gravitational
anomalies and shallow craters, suggesting the Moon is “hollow,” or
at the minimum has an interior core of much less dense material
than that towards its surface, a model itself at variance with
standard models of the interiors of solid planets: all this
suggests that the Moon, if not an artificial body in its own right,
at least has some elements on and beneath its surface that are
artificial in nature.
Confirmation of the
“hollow Moon” idea came in a dramatic and unexpected fashion when
the Lunar Module ascent stage of Apollo 12 was jettisoned from the
Command Module after depositing the two astronauts on board for
their return journey to Earth. The ascent stage was sent crashing
back into the Moon where special seismographic equipment left on
its surface recorded the shock waves and radioed them back to
earth. The results “staggered NASA scientists. The artificially
created Moonquake lasted 55 minutes!”615 But this was not
all. Scientists were baffled by the type of signals that were recorded. The waves
started small, then gained in size to a peak, lasted “for
unbelievably long periods of time.” This is completely different
behavior from seismic waves generated on the Earth.616 Subsequent
experiments with components from the failed Apollo 13 mission, and
later from Apollo 14, generated Moonquakes that lasted for about 3
hours and 20 minutes in each case, with the waves in each case
traveling to a depth of 22-25 miles.617
There was a further
puzzle to the Moonquakes. Werner Von Braun reveled to Popular Science magazine in January of 1972 that
the velocity of the waves gradually increased to a depth beneath
the lunar surface of about 15 miles, whereupon there was a sudden
increase, an increase only possible if the material became suddenly
much denser. Around 40 miles beneath the surface the velocity of
the waves was about 6 miles per second.618 The outer maria of
the Moon were composed of a mixture or metals, some of them very
rare: iron, titanium, beryllium, molybdenum, and yttrium. It is
perhaps significant that the velocity of sound through such
material is approximately the same: about six miles per second.
This suggests that deep beneath the lunar surface there is a thick
layer of what can only be described as a “specially alloyed”
compound of these rare metals.
This would explain
why the Moon, to the shock of the scientists performing these
experiments, rang like a bell.
Rounding out this
picture of high lunar strangeness are the curious features noted
about some of the moon rocks brought back by Apollo, and also by
Soviet unmanned probes. Apollo 16 brought back samples of Moon
rocks that contained rusted iron, an impossibility without the
presence of free oxygen and hydrogen.619 But the August 26,
1976 edition of the Detroit Free Press
carried a short article from the Associated Press wire service
about a startling Russian announcement. The Russians, it seemed,
had discovered their own particles of lunar iron returned to the
Soviet Union in one of their probes. The iron could not, did not,
and would not rust. As the newspaper
noted, such “rustless” iron cannot be manufactured on Earth” and
yet, to be rustless, some sort of manufacturing process has to be
involved.620 The only other
place such rustless iron is known is the iron column in New Delhi,
India, thought to be incomparably old and also, like the lunar
rustless iron, this pole does not rust, though it has stood outside
enduring monsoon after monsoon.
Finally, lunar soil
and rock samples that were brought back to Earth by Apollo 12 and
14 contained traces of Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237, isotopes that
were “never previously found in nature.”621 Of course such
isotopes may be synthesized, but that is the point: prior to the
Apollo missions they had to be synthesized.