That was actually interesting, something I don't say often about posts. This is the first I've heard about King Kirby's "Face on Mars" comic book story. They say Jack Kirby was the real creative genius behind all the great characters of the Marvel Universe, not Stan Lee. It's interesting, even if we presume that no face exists on Mars, because it suggests that there is some current in the collective psyche of humanity that wants for there to be a face on Mars. It surfaced in the form of Kirby's story, and later it surfaced in the supposed blurry images of a face picked up by orbiting spacecraft.
If you can overlook the hokiness of Richard Hoagland, this is another interesting predictive fiction story:
>Based on Robert Heinlein's juvenile novel SPACE CADET published in 1948, "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" was something of a multimedia phenomenon from 1950-55. Books, comics, and all manner of radio and TV versions were produced in great abundance during this period. This futuristic property was used to educate and encourage young minds to get interested in space travel and science.
>Now however, it appears that it was used for something more -- to educate and encourage young minds about the reality of the Exploding Planet Hypothesis, the Face on Mars, artifacts on the Moon, and Hyperdimensional Physics. For there, buried in a series of View Master slides created in 1955, four years before "Brookings," is virtually the entire history of the Cydonia investigation in one form or another. Given that that report called for a process of "conditioning" the general public in advance of announcing that "artifacts" had been found in the solar system, and this blatant reference is exactly just such a tool, the question is begged:
>What did they know? And when, exactly, did they know it?
>Before you scoff and dismiss the notion, as our critics invariably do without offering an alternative scenario other than a pejorative out of hand dismissal, consider this: NASA and the American rocketry program has had a long history of partnering with Hollywood to produce programming related to the space program. One such film was recently re-shown on the Disney Channel. Entitled "Man and the Moon." The science adviser of the film was Dr. Werner Von Braun, a close friend of Willy Ley and Walt Disney. (Thanks to Rick L. Sterling for this info). ****
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