Is Phobos a Mined Asteroid? A Sitchinite’s Take on the Hollow Object

whofortedblog.com ^ | March 11, 2013 11:56 am | Lee Covino

[corkoman]

The Moties minded it.

[Disambiguator]

IBTPOGT (In Before The Picture(s) of Giorgio Tsoukalos)

[BenLurkin]

The HeeChee

[cripplecreek]

While I doubt Phobos is an alien space ship, the idea has merit for us.

[Dead Corpse]

CHON Food Factory.

[techcor]

If people are afraid of this, I think it should be called Ramaphobia.

[clamper1797]

[muir_redwoods]

If dust accreted around an icy core and, following gravitational capture by Mars, tidal forces caused the ice to sublime, one would be left with a hollow body. Occams razor and all that

[Kommodor]

It was mined for useful materials, and then left behind by the elder race of man as they departed the solar system for points unknown (to us) ... they will be returning in ...

2112

:)

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I agree, accretions around an ice core. A comet surrounded by captured rock that is then itself captured by Mars.

Asteroids are not equal.

[Pecos]

Spoil sport! I personally prefer the “Death Star covered with interstellar dust” answer.

[Imnidiot]

You sayin that someone/something named Occam used his razor to shave the ice into some really sublime shapes, or something like that?
Sounds good to me.
It’s the simplest answer I’ve heard yet.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Saturn's moon, Iapetus, looks like the Death Star.

[BenLurkin]

Buzz sounds a little like Jim Lehrer...

[muawiyah]

mining is the least complex theory ~ its in line with signs of Earth, Venus and Mercury having been mined before half a billion years ago ~

[Jack Hydrazine]

In what way?

[Lee N. Field]

a generation starship that arrived from another star system and was placed in parking orbit around Mars;

I remember reading a science fiction novel back in the '60, that had Phobos as an (alien occupied) generation ship. This was a marginally habitable Lowellian Mars, predating the Mariner probe that showed us what a beat up nasty place Mars really was.

Wish I could remember what that book was.