What the Hell Is This Weird Shiny Object on Mars?

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5. I'm sure that Richard Hoagland and his people are going to be having a field day with this

I like reading his stuff and it would be fascinating if any portion of it turned out to be actually true but, unfortunately, I think most of it is just plain off.

He had published theories that the moon of mars Phobos is actually the remnants of an space craft made by some ancient civilization and he has done a lot of analysis of various images of the face on Mars' surface. Then there is a whole ton of stuff that he says about the moon being littered with artifacts from an ancient space-faring civilization.

There is a lot of weird and unexplained things out there, but I hardly believe the whole ancient aliens thing. I think that we severely underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our ancient ancestors, but I don't think that they had lasers and levitation devices. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some groups had a firm grasp of mechanical engineering and some (basic) chemistry aspects (i.e electroplating) going way further back than we commonly believe.