Iapetus, the mysterious moon of Saturn

[W.C.]

Interesting find you might enjoy reading. I searched the forum, and whilst mentioned en passant here and there, it does not appear to have yet been discussed.

A friend of mine put me onto this a while back with the most eloquently phrased subject line, which I will not repeat here. It is a rather long read, but well worth the effort.

For those of you who noticed Charles' mention of Arthur C. Clarke, perhaps this is a part of, and/or a lead towards what he had meant.


'A Moon with a view; what did Arthur C. Clarke know, and when did he know it?'
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm

http://www.enterprisemission.com/images_v2/Iapetus/Iapetus-Color-McIrvin.jpg
Iapetus [eye-AP-i-tus] is the seventeenth of Saturn's thirty three currently known moons, and the third largest. It was named after a Titan -- the son of Uranus and the father of Prometheus and Atlas (the latter said to be the 'fathers of Mankind'). Thus, in Greek myth, Iapetus was also an ancestor… a progenitor… of 'Homo Sapiens.'

Do you notice the 'ridge', going straight through the entire centre of this 'moon'?

The questions that quickly draw ones attention are, if Iapetus is not a natural satellite at all, but a 900-mile wide spacecraft, an artificial 'moon'; what is or was its purpose, and what can we learn from it?


http://www.enterprisemission.com/images_v2/Iapetus/Iapetus-Saturnshine-October-2004.jpg
In the overexposed sunlit portion, the limb of the moon – rather than being round (like Mimas or Dione) – is plainly composed of a set of sharply slanted planes …. The exact number is difficult to reconstruct (because of the overexposure and the viewing angle), but the outlined areas appear to mark at least six (tetrahedral?) amazingly flat “sides” – each measuring hundreds of miles in length.


'…One hemisphere of the satellite, which, like its companions, turned the same face always toward Saturn, was extremely dark, and showed very little surface detail. In complete contrast, the other was dominated by a brilliant white oval, about four hundred miles long and two hundred wide. At the moment, only part of this striking formation was in daylight, but the reason for Iapetus’s extraordinary variations in brilliance was now quite obvious…'
Arthur C. Clarke

NASA stated on releasing this image that, '… the image shows mainly the night side of Iapetus; part of the far brighter sunlit side appears at the right and is overexposed due to the long integration time of 180 seconds. Despite this long exposure time, almost no blurring due to the spacecraft’s motion is apparent.'

It gets even more interesting from there. Apparently, the moon is noted to be redirecting incoming radar energy away from any radar source. Once this was ascertained, unfortunately, those in the position to do so have swept information regarding this 'moon' under the rug, so to speak. Gag order. Official silence.

Bill, if you happen to be interviewing someone who may be privy to information regarding this, a question or two about Iapetus may prove interesting to say the least.

If you are someone in the know on this, I would like to hear from you. You may private message me if you please, and you will remain anonymous if you so request.

[InCiDeR]

Thank you W.C for this interesting thread. Here you have something that looks very similar, doesn't it?!

http://www.virtuescience.com/iapetus.jpg

It is called the The Klerksdorp Spheres.

Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.

Roelf Marx: "There is nothing scientific published about the globes, but the facts are: They are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a quite soft secondary mineral with a count of only 3 on the Mohs' scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion years ago. On the other hand the globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel."

"It also seems that the spheres are so delicately balanced that, even with modern technology, they would need to have been made in zero gravity. The story goes that scientists at NASA were totally flawed when they examined them, and were unable to come up with any explanation." However some of the photographs do not seem to support this.

Read more here:
http://www.virtuescience.com/grooved-spheres.html

Here is a detailed analysis by a sceptic:
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom/spheres.html

There is some speculation that they are connected in some way to Iapetus a moon of Saturn which has unusual rings on it's surface:
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon6.htm

Strange coincidence, isn't it!

[W.C.]

Whats striking here are the implications. Iapetus, according to Greek myth was a progenitor of Homo Sapiens. The discovery of manufactured artifacts from the middle of the Pre-Cambrian Epoch is impossible going by accepted history - The Klerksdorp Spheres would have to have been brought here. For billions of years, Earth was home to only an extremely narrow range of microscopic cyanobacteria, and then in the space of less than 5 million years, every form of life currently appearing on Earth suddenly began emerging. �The Cambrian Explosion.

Artifacts from the middle of the Pre-Cambrian Epoch... The Cambrian Explosion.

It's certainly plausible that Iapetus was a seeding 'mother ship' of some kind.

[watchZEITGEISTnow]

http://www.ciclops.org/ir_index/134/Cassini_In_Orbit

Cassini Image Gallery: In Orbit

:)

[Swami]

Whats striking here are the implications. Iapetus, according to Greek myth was a progenitor of Homo Sapiens. The discovery of manufactured artifacts from the middle of the Pre-Cambrian Epoch is impossible going by accepted history - The Klerksdorp Spheres would have to have been brought here. For billions of years, Earth was home to only an extremely narrow range of microscopic cyanobacteria, and then in the space of less than 5 million years, every form of life currently appearing on Earth suddenly began emerging. �The Cambrian Explosion.

Artifacts from the middle of the Pre-Cambrian Epoch... The Cambrian Explosion.

It's certainly plausible that Iapetus was a seeding 'mother ship' of some kind.

Welcome to the forum....

Do you have other info, supplying Hoaglands info...?

[InCiDeR]

...Wonder from where George Lucas got this?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Death_star1.png

[Swami]

...Wonder where George Lucas got this from?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Death_star1.png

Theres only one source, as far as I know, and that Hoagland..........

He "glued" the story of Iapetus and the spheres toghether,
I would love yo see more material on this one because it fascinates me...

Take a look at the craters on Iapetes and think hexagon, its a deathstar, an old cosmic battleship.....

Maybe these ships are the cause of this... (http://www.craterchains.com/)

[W.C.]

Whats striking here are the implications. Iapetus, according to Greek myth was a progenitor of Homo Sapiens. The discovery of manufactured artifacts from the middle of the Pre-Cambrian Epoch is impossible going by accepted history - The Klerksdorp Spheres would have to have been brought here. For billions of years, Earth was home to only an extremely narrow range of microscopic cyanobacteria, and then in the space of less than 5 million years, every form of life currently appearing on Earth suddenly began emerging. �The Cambrian Explosion.

Artifacts from the middle of the Pre-Cambrian Epoch... The Cambrian Explosion.

It's certainly plausible that Iapetus was a seeding 'mother ship' of some kind.

Welcome to the forum....

Do you have other info, supplying Hoaglands info...?

Thank you for the welcome.

It depends. Apparently he uses puts together his theory/history/deciphering from a few various sources and ideas, from Crick, to Einstein, to NASA, to articles, to coincidences like the spheres likeness and remarkable features themselves.

Is there a specific piece of that information you're looking for a source on?

Here are few excerpts / links for the road in any case:

“The spheres are a complete mystery. They look man-made, yet at the time in Earth's history when they came to rest in this rock no intelligent life existed. They're nothing like I have ever seen before (Jimison 1982).�

In 1973, molecular biologists Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel formally proposed in the mainstream planetary science journal, Icarus [Crick, F. H. C., and Orgel, L. E. "Directed Panspermia," Icarus, 19, 341 (1973)] that life on Earth could be the direct result of such an interstellar “seeding program.� Their idea was the essence of simplicity -- once the 'small problem� of building interstellar spacecraft essential to carrying the 'seeds� across interstellar space was overcome by 'a suitably advanced civilization'.

Roelf Marx:
http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ghi/spheres.html
References:
Jimison, S. (1982) "Scientists baffled by space spheres." Weekly World News, July 27.
Kourmisky, J., ed. (1977) Illustrated Encylopedia of Minerals and Rocks. London, Octopus.
Marx, R. (1984) personal communication, September 12.

Regarding the spheres insides:
http://community-2.webtv.net/WF11/MysterySpheres/

[Sowelu]

Facinating! great post. I've always felt particularly drawn to saturn..perhaps that "moon" was our birthplace...or the transport ship that brought us to earth.
Hell it could be where our observers are hanging out.
I'd like to get my hands on one of those little orbs and examine it, i bet there's a trick to em..

[gardunk]

http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm :hail:

[daddy fishwick]

Very interesting! Thanks for that.

[W.C.]

Indeed, here is a thread I started on it back in February: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?15088-Iapetus

I'm glad more people are interested!

[An Cailleach]

This is great. Need a cup of tea and a sit-down for this

[sllim11]

interesting. very. i was listening to david icke on red ice last night (link below) and he says some things about the moon and how it's a ship or fake or it is really not what it seems. then he also says he believes the other planet to be watching is saturn... ? listen to the interview. it's great!! understatement.

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio...RIR-110424.php

... see if you hear, what i think, were correlations to this hoagland piece...

"see if you hear" interesting words.

[bearcow]

Another related post

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?16906-Cult-of-Saturn

One of the concepts related with all this is the idea of a Egregore built to serve a dark power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woQZYhAxS90


http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/eyeswideshut_redemption-thumb.jpg

The masks that the participants wear are symbolically representing that they are faceless members of the collective, unimportant as individuals.

[bearcow]

on this clip from the fantastic 4 movie the nemesis of the movie, a cosmic entity which feeds on life-bearing planets to survive is introduced with the planet saturn as its backdrop. Notice the black widow shadow/imagery on the surface of Saturn as the entity moves by.

Are they trying to tell you something?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGR1KHuFU1o&feature=related

you can skip forward to 8:43

[bearcow]

last night i watched transformers 2 revenge of the fallen. Terrible movie, but i make myself sit through these things like this to see what hints they drop about et's ancient history etc. I cant believe they cant find anyone better than michael bay and roland emmerich to make these films! Anyways, the main bad robot, er transformer is a guy called the fallen, he's hiding out on one of the moons of saturn. He's making his decepticon cronies look for some ancient alien artifact hidden on earth, so that he can power up some device hidden in the great pyramid use it to destroy the sun and plunge the earth forever into darkness.

a still from the film
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c111/ReddyRedWolf/Transformers/Nemesis-ROTFlocation.jpg

[The Castellan]

Iapetus, the mysterious moon of Saturn.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm

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Something is not quite right about that moon, folks.

[carryattune]

My first thought was that ridge looked like a mold mark. Not possible. Just what I first thought .

[The Castellan]

From the Enterprise articles, which still needs part 7, it seems the whole thing is shape like those mirrored balls in those old disco movies, and it reflects both light and radar. And the WEIRD shape and angle is its orbit tells me something is going on, here. Either it was a moon that had stuff built over it, like Cybertron from those old Transformers cartoons, OR the entire thing is a construct, a great big one. I mean how does one get hexagonal craters, with teeth like shaped on the edges? It's like it was built, layer upon layer.

Also, I think Aurthur Clark KNEW something, he knew something, but had to get the information out in a way that would not result in him floating face down in some river.

[carryattune]

I have often wondered about ancient memories being the inspiration behind many movies and books.

[The Castellan]

Well, I think it's more of who knows the information. When Spielberg released ET, he was sitting right next to Ronald Reagon, and Ron leaned over and whispered in his ear, "You're very close to be right". And I think guys like Kubrick, Clark, Lucas, Roddenberry, Spielberg and the unnamed producer who wanted to make Dr. Greer's alien film, but threatened in the end, have some access to the information.


Wait until I show you the next thread I make, regarding what's on the moon.

[carryattune]

It's a deal. Sounds promising.

[The Castellan]

I'll post it this weekend. :cool:

[Sena]

"Iapetus (a moon of Saturn) is the strangest and spookiest celestial body in the solar system."
Dart Lamorna in his book "The Search for Civilization X"

Youtube of Arthur C. Clarke on Iapetus:

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Richard Hoagland on Iapetus:

http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon1.htm

[amor]

Posted Apr. 16, 2017: One look at Iapetus said to me. This is a huge manufactured object in the form of two "dishes" which were fit together and the "ridge" is the point of joining them together. The eight sided shapes are entrances to the orb. Frankly, it said to me "SPACE MINE" or "BOMB." It may also have been constructed to carry something which may or may not still be inside if it was not used. Subsequently, it may have been colonized heavily. The obviously constructed walls (I do not remember seeing a road system) suggest they had anti-gravity flight.

As for the BALLS found in deep layers of the Earth, findings in Antarctica suggest that a civilization of giants inhabited this planet 2.5 billion years ago, about the timing of the layers in which the balls were found. They could have been toys or more likely "instruments." These could have been placed at many points around our planet as they broadcast to satellites with their information. This is only one of many possibilities. Amor.