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May 2, 1997: NASA - Richard C. Hoagland & Dr. Tom Van Flandern
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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Richard C. Hoagland and astronomer Dr. Tom Van Flandern return to respond point by point to the previous night's appearance by NASA officials. Van Flandern presents his exploded planet hypothesis, arguing that comets are not pristine dirty snowballs but fragments of a planet that detonated approximately 3.2 million years ago, a date strikingly close to the emergence of hominid species on Earth.
Hoagland details his extensive survey of global observatory data on Comet Hale-Bopp, noting that the recent discovery of a sodium tail supports Van Flandern's model by suggesting the comet's water was once salty ocean water. The pair challenges NASA's claim that risking Hubble for shadow-zone observations was unjustified, arguing that the real risk was to the agency's decades-long commitment to the Whipple comet model. Hoagland also alleges that outside shuttle cameras carry a roughly one-minute video delay, contradicting what NASA officials stated the night before.
The episode builds into a sweeping discussion connecting Europa mission politics, Cydonia on Mars, proprietary data policies, and the possibility that secret military programs already possess anti-gravity craft derived from recovered technology. Van Flandern and Hoagland present a unified case that NASA's institutional culture has become hostile to paradigm-shifting discoveries.
Hoagland details his extensive survey of global observatory data on Comet Hale-Bopp, noting that the recent discovery of a sodium tail supports Van Flandern's model by suggesting the comet's water was once salty ocean water. The pair challenges NASA's claim that risking Hubble for shadow-zone observations was unjustified, arguing that the real risk was to the agency's decades-long commitment to the Whipple comet model. Hoagland also alleges that outside shuttle cameras carry a roughly one-minute video delay, contradicting what NASA officials stated the night before.
The episode builds into a sweeping discussion connecting Europa mission politics, Cydonia on Mars, proprietary data policies, and the possibility that secret military programs already possess anti-gravity craft derived from recovered technology. Van Flandern and Hoagland present a unified case that NASA's institutional culture has become hostile to paradigm-shifting discoveries.