Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA, Enlarged and Revised Edition

Amazing book but it's incredibly technical

This book tackles the mother of all conspiracy theories - that aliens may in fact, have been on the Moon and Mars - and presents a compelling case that NASA is controlling sensitive information to support this. But this book is not an easy read as it is incredibly technical and would probably be more interesting to an astrophysicist than a casual fan of The X-Files. But this book makes a very compelling case that there is much more going on at NASA than the public knows.

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Thought provoking

An unaltered picture is worth a thousand words. Just consider the possibilities ... I now know why the Vatican annouced to its millions of followers that it is okay to beleive in the possibility of "alien life" on mars ... "That life on Mars could not be ruled out and God could have created intelligent beings in outer space." Father Gabriel Funes is the Vatican's chief astronomer and wrote an article in the official Vatican newspaper called, "Aliens Are My Brother." Father Funes exclaimed that the search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God. When asked about the condemnation of the Italian astronomer and physicist, Galileo, by the Catholic Church some four centuries ago, Father Funes claimed mistakes were made,
but stressed that it is time to turn the page and look towards the future.

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the past, it's current impact

very informative. sharing with friends.

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Good book

Very thorough I enjoyed it

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Jack-ass

Science is based on ever changing theories. Just becauuse you can't accept new theories (even with evidence and mathematical support) doesn't make it wrong. If we all thought that way we'd be a bunch of dumb, ignorant, stubborn jack-asses using words like factual when discussing a subject such as science. A subject that's facts change repeatedly.

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Makes an excellent gift for someone you don't like

This book is a painful read. If you read it with an open mind it shows just how far people will go to show how everything is a conspiracy of some sort. The book draws wild and unsupported conclusions that are so far fetched that even someone who wants to believe in the possibility of life beyond this planet has to question the author. If you are looking for a book to help you believe or expand your horizons you should look elsewhere. I really wish I could get the time I spent reading this book back.

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Compelling evidence on ET buildings on the moon and Mars

Lots of compelling evidence, especially NASA photos about ET buildings on the moon and Mars. However, the book fails to conclude what it means by presenting all these facts to the readers. Sometimes it is a little too boring with some technical analysis. What the authors should do is just to present the facts and draw conclusion. Then leave detailed technical analysis in a separate volume for professionals to determine its value. For general readers, what we want to know is just facts.

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This book is rubbish

This entire book is a paranoid fantasy, expressing nothing other than the authors' bizarre hatred of NASA and utter ignorance of science. Neither of them has any training in science, and neither of them has ever conducted a scientific experiment in his life. On page 224 Richard Hoagland describes himself as a scientist, but this is, in common with most of its context, arrogant nonsense.

If you, too, are a NASA-hater, you'll probably enjoy this book and you probably won't care that it is factually wrong at every turn. If you're a more moderate observer of spaceflight and planetary/lunar science, you can most likely guess that this would be a waste of your money.

The corner-flash on the front cover proclaims this second edition to be "REVISED & EXPANDED," but this is an empty claim. None of the many, many errors of fact in the first edition of this wretchedly-edited work have been corrected -- on the contrary, a few have been added in the new introductory passages. The 48 introductory pages are the only part of the edition that is in any sense "expanded" -- the body of the book is exactly as the first edition. Shameful.

Disregarding the many, many errors committed by the authors, I have a bone -- a whole skeleton -- to pick with its publisher, Adam Parfrey of Feral House.

* In the book's announcement on Amazon, we are told "Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed 'alternate gravitational solutions.'" There is no such chapter, and that's perhaps a blessing since the mathematics underlying Hoagland's thesis he calls "Von Braun's Secret" is hopelessly, irretrievably, fatally, WRONG.

* Also in the announcement, we are told "Buyers of the new edition will be provided a code that will enable them to log on to DarkMission.net to download hundreds of images discussed within the book." Well, I'm a buyer and I've been given no such code. We wuz robbed.

It would have been welcome, since the quality of monochrome photo-repro is only marginally better than that of the first edition. That is to say, it has improved from abysmal to unacceptable.

* In the publishing world, I think we can all accept that there's a good economic reason for inserting color art as a separate signature, a practice that Parfrey follows here. But why did he find it possible to use inline monochrome illustrations in the Introduction, yet pushed all other art to the end of each chapter, forcing the reader to flip forward at every figure reference?

* Errata are inevitable in publishing -- they happen to the best of us. After the first edition, an official list of errata was provided -- 29 items, not too bad for a work of over 500 pages. But second editions are the opportunity to make these good, and in this respect Adam Parfrey is a dismal failure. There are uncorrected errata on pages 131,145,178,215,278,286,312,320,386(2),430 (all using 2nd edition pagination.) This is inexcusable.

* There is still no index, in a book with tortuous references to many individuals who are important in the long history of NASA's conspiracy against Richard Hoagland. Indexing would have cost about $2000. Considering the 1st edition sold over 50,000, Parfrey could have afforded it.

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Dark moon

Transformers ships

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This book is rubbish

This entire book is a paranoid fantasy, expressing nothing other than the authors' bizarre hatred of NASA and utter ignorance of science. Neither of them has any training in science, and neither of them has ever conducted a scientific experiment in his life. On page 224 Richard Hoagland describes himself as a scientist, but this is, in common with most of its context, arrogant nonsense.If you, too, are a NASA-hater, you'll probably enjoy this book and you probably won't care that it is factually wrong at every turn. If you're a more moderate observer of spaceflight and planetary/lunar science, you can most likely guess that this would be a waste of your money.The corner-flash on the front cover proclaims this second edition to be "REVISED & EXPANDED," but this is an empty claim. None of the many, many errors of fact in the first edition of this wretchedly-edited work have been corrected -- on the contrary, a few have been added in the new introductory passages (such as Mike Bara petulantly describing Dwayne Day inaccurately as a "shameless hack" who "has so many NASA connections on his resume [sic] that he may as well be an official press officer for the agency.") The 48 introductory pages are the only part of the edition that is in any sense "expanded" -- the body of the book is exactly as the first edition. Shameful.

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Great book

This book opens alot of thought

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