Water is all around us, even in the most arid deserts. It is in the ground as a liquid, frozen in the arctic as a solid, and even in the air around us as humidity. All this water causes a phenomenon called “hydrolytic weakening” when glass is being manufactured on Earth, meaning that at the molecular level, the bonding of silicates and oxygen is resultantly weakened. This produces a transparent, brittle and fragile material we call common glass. Manufactured under Earthly conditions, we have found that glass is a very useful and artistically pleasing medium for a variety of uses — but structural construction is not one of them.
In short, on Earth, we don’t build glass houses.
But the Moon is a completely different story. It is airless, with no humidity to interfere with the molecular bonding of the silicates that make-up the glass that is omnipresent. The hard-cold vacuum enhances the strength of lunar glass to the point that it is approximately twice as strong as steel under the same stress conditions. In fact, several papers from scientists at Harvard and other universities have suggested that lunar glass is the ideal substance from which to construct a domed lunar base. 1
All I’m proposing is that somebody else came up with the idea long before we did. “Somebody,” as in Ancient Aliens.
But if this concept is valid, then there must be other evidence to support it, right? As it turns out, there’s plenty.
Surveyor 6
Surveyor 6 was an unmanned NASA robot probe that successfully landed on the Moon in November 1967 about thirty miles west of “Bruce,” a small five-mile wide crater near the center of Sinus Medii. From there, the Surveyor spacecraft took over 35,000 images of the surrounding lunar landscape. One night after local sunset on November 24, an additional set of time-exposed images were acquired looking west, for purposes of studying light-scattering properties in interplanetary space caused by the solar corona, which was at the time far below the lunar horizon. These images, when they were released, caused something of a fire storm.
One of the Surveyor 6 images.
Instead of the Sun’s faint corona, the image contained a huge flare of light on the horizon, very similar to a common sunset here on the Earth. The problem with this lunar sunset was that it was anything but common. The Surveyor image, with its remarkably brilliant beads of light stretching along the western horizon and an intensely geometric structure of scattered light seen against the lunar sky above it, was taken over an hour after sunset.
On Earth, when we see the sun set, the sun in fact has already “set” (dropped below the visible horizon) several minutes before. But the atmosphere of the Earth bends the light coming from the sun, so the sun we are watching slowly disappear over the horizon is actually already several degrees below that horizon. This atmospheric interference is also the reason the sun tends to turn more orange and distort in shape as it sets.
Surveyor 6 image.
All of this is well and good, except for one problem; the Moon has no atmosphere. So when Surveyor took the image, all it should have seen was the faint wisps of the Sun’s descending corona. This was certainly what the scientists expected to see.
The NASA guys quickly tried to come up with an explanation, and they settled on the idea that electro-statically charged fields had somehow suspended particles of dust in the lunar sky and created the dramatic sunset effect. This theory was later discounted by lunar soil samples, but the NASA explanation has never been officially withdrawn.
Scaffolding on the Moon. Close-up of box like, semi-transparent structures miles above Sinus Medii. Note the 3D structure and depth, and the interlocking sections of supports and structure. (NASA frame AS10-32-4816).
Which left a major mystery; what could cause such intense illumination more than an hour after sunset? The only viable answer is that there must
In short, on Earth, we don’t build glass houses.
But the Moon is a completely different story. It is airless, with no humidity to interfere with the molecular bonding of the silicates that make-up the glass that is omnipresent. The hard-cold vacuum enhances the strength of lunar glass to the point that it is approximately twice as strong as steel under the same stress conditions. In fact, several papers from scientists at Harvard and other universities have suggested that lunar glass is the ideal substance from which to construct a domed lunar base. 1
All I’m proposing is that somebody else came up with the idea long before we did. “Somebody,” as in Ancient Aliens.
But if this concept is valid, then there must be other evidence to support it, right? As it turns out, there’s plenty.
Surveyor 6
Surveyor 6 was an unmanned NASA robot probe that successfully landed on the Moon in November 1967 about thirty miles west of “Bruce,” a small five-mile wide crater near the center of Sinus Medii. From there, the Surveyor spacecraft took over 35,000 images of the surrounding lunar landscape. One night after local sunset on November 24, an additional set of time-exposed images were acquired looking west, for purposes of studying light-scattering properties in interplanetary space caused by the solar corona, which was at the time far below the lunar horizon. These images, when they were released, caused something of a fire storm.
One of the Surveyor 6 images.
Instead of the Sun’s faint corona, the image contained a huge flare of light on the horizon, very similar to a common sunset here on the Earth. The problem with this lunar sunset was that it was anything but common. The Surveyor image, with its remarkably brilliant beads of light stretching along the western horizon and an intensely geometric structure of scattered light seen against the lunar sky above it, was taken over an hour after sunset.
On Earth, when we see the sun set, the sun in fact has already “set” (dropped below the visible horizon) several minutes before. But the atmosphere of the Earth bends the light coming from the sun, so the sun we are watching slowly disappear over the horizon is actually already several degrees below that horizon. This atmospheric interference is also the reason the sun tends to turn more orange and distort in shape as it sets.
Surveyor 6 image.
All of this is well and good, except for one problem; the Moon has no atmosphere. So when Surveyor took the image, all it should have seen was the faint wisps of the Sun’s descending corona. This was certainly what the scientists expected to see.
The NASA guys quickly tried to come up with an explanation, and they settled on the idea that electro-statically charged fields had somehow suspended particles of dust in the lunar sky and created the dramatic sunset effect. This theory was later discounted by lunar soil samples, but the NASA explanation has never been officially withdrawn.
Scaffolding on the Moon. Close-up of box like, semi-transparent structures miles above Sinus Medii. Note the 3D structure and depth, and the interlocking sections of supports and structure. (NASA frame AS10-32-4816).
Which left a major mystery; what could cause such intense illumination more than an hour after sunset? The only viable answer is that there must
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