Hoagland lists these relationships and some more in his book The Monuments Torun found a number of numerical relationships exhibitedīy these angles. Inside the base lying directly below the apex of this hypothetical pyramid.įor more background information, see Erol Torun's article The Various angles which are formed by the corners of the base and a point Molenaar and also proposed the hypothesis that thisįormation may have been a bilaterally-symmetric, five-sided pyramidĪt one time in the past. There is some kind of formation in the Cydonia region of Mars which hasīeen called the D & M Pyramid. Provides information about my background. Readers who want to know more about me can just go to

In my first letter to Hoagland (dated November 16th, 1996), I included a summary of my credentials as a mathematician, explaining that I was doing that so that he would take my opinions seriously. Has any validity and should not just be dismissed as I again challenge him to justify his belief that this evidence Let him respond to all of the objections that I have raised in the followingĮssay. I seriouslyĭoubt the sincerity of his professed belief. One which he has apparently found to be rather effective. 'Geometry of Cydonia,' is really just a propaganda tool for him. I have come to believe that thisĬollection of mathematical relationships, which Hoagland refers to as the All of this is prominentlyĭisplayed (in four colors) on a poster which is available for purchase In his public lectures, he shows slides illustratingĭozens of triangles formed by taking various points in the Cydonia regionĪs vertices and also listing various numerical relationships involving Relationships that he presents in his book. Richard Hoagland seems to be quite attached to all of the mathematical To my surprise,Īrt Bell confronted Richard Hoagland on the air with my challenge, but To Art Bell and a number of his frequent guests. To directly challenge Hoagland to a debate.

As I mention in the essay below, I eventually decided So instead, I sent several faxes to Art Bell on this topic, whichĮxplained my point of view in a simplified way, but these were never read I told him that I would be willing, but such aĭebate never did happen. He might be able to pursuade Hoagland to respond. Later, I wrote to Stanley McDaniel, thinking that After that, I wrote to him several times, but he On my part to convince him that scientists were quite right to reject that Relationships like the ones that he presents in his book. That simple experimentĭemonstrated how easily one can find striking patterns of mathematical In the Fall of 1996, I gave HoaglandĪ summary of the numerical experiment mentioned above. Over the past several years to challenge Hoagland on this issue seem to Quite frankly, I don't know if it is worthwhile. Is it really worthwhile responding to that? 'alignments' that he and others have noticed, Hoagland offers some probabilityĪrguments which are completely 'a posteriori' and therefore have He presents have any merit as scientific evidence. That all of the mathematical relationships for the D&M Pyramid that Hoagland never makes any serious attempt to justify his professed belief Writing this essay, I wondered if it is really worth the time and trouble. Of why I find this mathematical evidence fallacious. In the following rather long essay I attempt to give a detailed explanation The results confirmed that my intuition was very well-foundedĪnd so, from my perspective, the mathematical evidence presented in Hoagland'sīook is quite fallacious and hardly worthy of being presented as serious I then decided to do a simple numerical experiment with randomlyĬhosen numbers. The kinds of mathematical relationships which he describes are not at all But my intuition as a mathematician told me that Mathematical relationships, which he seems to regard as strong evidenceįor artificiality. Photographic evidence, Hoagland discusses at considerable length various The 1970s) showing some formations, such as the Face and the D&M Pyramid, This includes photographs (which come from the Viking mission in Look at the evidence presented in his book The Monuments of Mars Hoagland discuss this topic on the Art Bell Show, I decided to take a close I was completely unaware of this controversial issue. Intelligent civilization that once lived there. Letter to Richard Hoagland, dated August 28th, 2002įor many years Richard Hoagland has been the most conspicuous proponentįor the idea that the Face on Mars and various other formations in theĬydonia region of that planet are artificial objects constructed by an THE D&M PYRAMID ON MARS AND RICHARD HOAGLAND'S THEORIES ABOUT CYDONIA

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