If you tell me the Moon is made of green cheese . . . I’m going to laugh, of course, the idea being so preposterous. I could falsify the claim without much trouble, at least with extrapolations from facts and from theories well-established — like, you know, cheese is a product made of fermented milk, and we have no reason to believe in a lactose-heavy moon, etc. In addition, I would head you off at the pass, noting that the designation of our galaxy as “the Milky Way” can in no way excuse flights of fancy.

Now, were you to tell me that the Apollo lunar missions were all faked, I would express incredulity, again. But it’s not quite so far-fetched as the cheeze biz, and call me something less than a whiz, or wiz, I would have to take some trouble to process your claim. But I have looked into it, and can shoot it down. Though I admit, some of your points may continue to hold some interest. 

But if you tell me that the Moon has a titanium crust and a much lighter, lower-mass core, and that it “rang like a bell,” seismically, when tested in the Apollo missions, and that this is recognized by scientists and NASA but not often talked about, and that our Moon is very strange all around, and, moreover, that it isn’t the only moon in our solar system to be extremely weird — Carl Sagan having speculated that Mars’s Phobos could be a space ship, its orbit being (how shall we say?) as puzzling as our moon’s, and sporting a monolith on its surface that (ahem) sticks out like a giant crystal or an intelligently-made building, and, further, that Saturn’s Iapetus turning out to look eerily like Star Wars’ Death Star — well, what do I do with all that? Not much. But the fact that we have these peculiar facts that don’t fit in easily with the Nothing-To-See-Here-Folks attitude of professional astronomers, who pooh-pooh any talk of anything paranormal as if their job were poo-pooing rather than exploring — all this does strike me as very odd, and evidence of something. I just do not know what.

Meanwhile, my experiments in writing long sentences proceed apace.

twv