What's out there ... Saturn

What is all this crap about a moon that isn't really a moon? GIVE ME A BREAK!

Iapetus -- the strange little moon of Saturn that has this massive ridge going around the moon. Well some think it goes ALL the way around the moon. They also think the moon isn't round and actually has sides like it was a structure made by other beings. They say it actually has straight sides and is kind of like a geodesic dome. They say that some "calamity" caused the "empty" interior to collapse partially which is why the moon has the shape that it does and has that ridge. They say that the ridge was actually a seam of two halves or just part of the whole sub-structure. They say the straight edges and the material that it is made of was designed specifically to "hide" it from radar like stealth technology does for airplanes. They say it orbits on a different plane because someone put it there.

HEEELLLLOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! It's a freaking moon! It orbits Saturn on a different plane than the rest of the moons – BIG DEAL! It was probably something that was passing through the solar system and happened to get caught by Saturn’s gravity. Most likely it is or was made mostly of loose boulders of ice and dirt much like a number of other moons and there was an impact that caused the ridge. Just look at the moon and you see a number of large craters. Just to put a little perspective on impact forces --- Look what the comet did on Jupiter!!! On top of that with the "strange" orbit look at the plane of the planets. We have planets that don't orbit in the same plane. Jupiter has moons that are not in the same plane. Any planet that has more than one moon you can pretty much see they are not on the same plane. Look at comets.. they don't orbit on the same plane and they orbit the Sun.

Stealth Moon?!?! GEEZE!!! It probably has naturally occurring materials we just haven't seen before. We have seen that there are galaxies that collide. Who's to say something didn't happen in the distant past that caused this object to break free of what ever planet it was going around? Who's to say it isn't part of another planet from either this solar system or another that had been blown apart by an asteroid or an exploding sun and it found it's way to Saturn? Who's to say that the materials on that planet don't occur throughout the universe and we just haven't come across them yet? How many new elements have been added to the periodic table in the last 50 years? They don't understand something and it's automatically something that some race built or has a covert reason for being there. Some Scientists huh?

They say that the odd orbit is because someone placed it there after it was built. What?!?!

If someone were to build something like that:

1) Why would they park it so far from the Sun that it is unbelievably cold?

2) If you can build a Moon why not just terra-form a planet? Much easier to do especially in this solar system.

3) If you want to observe a planet wouldn't it make more sense to build a space station rather than a moon? Not to mention that if a race has that kind of technology to build a moon I'm sure they have sensors and probes to gather every bit of information they need about a planet or solar system without having to go to the extreams of building a moon.

4) Why build a moon when you have a perfectly good 3rd rock from the Sun?

5) What technologically advanced culture would put that kind of effort and material into building something that big and that advanced just to throw dirt on it and make it look like a rock?

6) Why would they park it so far from the planet and why Saturn of all planets?

7) If a race was so advanced that it could build something like that AND get it there don’t you think they would have the ability to keep it from getting hit by large objects and don’t you think it would still be functioning?

One site even compares the moon to the Death Star from Star Wars. Good grief!!!!!!! There are plenty of moons that have been shown to have craters on them that in the right profile would look like it too. I’ll bet that if we took a picture of the Earth and the big impact crater in South America and backed up “time” to remove all the erosion of the crater walls and then colored the picture so it was gray and removed the atmosphere it would look just like the Death Star too.

Come on. Get serious!! GET A LIFE!!