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To: sea_urchin who wrote (114)	1/24/2005 10:11:41 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

I KNEW IT! LOL... I KNEW IT! Searle, you heard it here first: the Huygens probe didn't "soft-land" on Titan --it "Beagled"!!!!() The whole whizbang Huygens-Cassini "Star-Trek" to Saturn's satellite was a HOAX!!! Clue: HUYGENS TITAN IMAGES HAVE BEEN ALTERED Posted By: Geneticus Date: Saturday, 15 January 2005, 5:08 p.m. Someone did a bad photoshop touch up job on the latest NASA images from Titan. The indicated areas in the image below show problems with the direction of the shadow, and an area that looks like it was touched up to hide whatever was originally there. Also, here is a report in which NASA admitedly removed an image from their website after posting it, without explanation or indication of what the image was... "For unknown reasons, NASA, which operates Cassini, the satellite orbiting Saturn that relayed Huygens' signal, removed an image of Titan's surface from its Web site. ESA had not released that image. No official information was available about the image from Titan's surface." surfingtheapocalypse.net The so-called pictures from Titan were likely dug out of the huge --and as yet, not fully released-- pool of Martian pics owned by NASA: msss.com Now, you'll ask me, Why on earth would both ESA and NASA pull such a disgraceful hoax??!? Simple: money. After the Ariane V jumbo-launcher failure(), after the Beagle Martian screwup, ESA (the European Space Agency) couldn't afford yet another fiasco.... Especially as the EU has now expanded to a 25-member union: meaning more constituencies vying with each other to grab a share of the EU monies. Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic,... all expect generous subsidies from Brussels to help them streamline their backward industries/agricultures. The US didn't hesitate to help contrive the Huygens hoax because, already back in 1997, the US administration anticipated that both Europe and the US would be hard-pressed to scrape enough money together to finance their space programs. Hence the growing burden-sharing among Russia, Europe and the US --to compete with the Asians (first and foremost, China). Stay tuned, Gus () UK Govt and ESA Keep Beagle 2 Failure Report Secret London (UPI) May 24, 2004 The public may never be told why Britain's first Martian probe - Beagle 2 - disappeared last Christmas as it was about to land on Mars. Investigators have not been able to pinpoint a single failure or shortcoming of the $90 million probe, reporters were told at a London news conference Monday. However, the British government and the European Space Agency have refused to reveal the detailed findings of an inquiry into the loss of the unmanned spacecraft, the Daily Telegraph reported. The report has been kept confidential to protect commercial interests and ensure no one was afraid to come forward with evidence, according to the agency. Professor Colin Pillinger, Britain's chief scientist for the mission, said only four copies of the report had been made and he had not seen any. [...] spacedaily.com (**) Message 19731984