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Ross Coulthart discusses anomalous features on Mars and Phobos with theoretical physicist Maaneli Derakhshani.

Check your risk for free: Run a free dark web scan with OmniWatch to see if your personal information or passwords have been leaked. Link: https://tracking.omniwatch.com/?a=1722&oc=90&c=755&s1=newsnation&s2=ross Use code ROSS at checkout to get 50% off your first month of OmniWatch digital protection. In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with theoretical physicist and philosopher of physics Maaneli Derakhshani for a long look at the anomalous features cataloged across the moon, Phobos and the surface of Mars. The conversation opens with Lue Elizondo's remarks on lunar anomalies, then works outward to the Phobos 2 spacecraft and the object NASA's own mission literature once described as a monolith along with the reason SETI took that object seriously enough to study. From there, Max walks Ross through the imagery that has drawn the most attention on Mars, from the so-called glass worm to the rectilinear formations near the Atlantis basin, applying the same fractal analysis that NASA and the Department of Defense use to separate natural terrain from engineered structures. Grounding the discussion in Carl Sagan's own standards for…

People in this episode

Host: Ross Coulthart

Guest: Maaneli Derakhshani

Topics covered

• Mars anomalies
• theoretical physics
• lunar anomalies
• SETI
• past life evidence
• fractal analysis

Keywords

• Mars
• anomalies
• theoretical physics
• SETI
• fractal analysis
• lunar anomalies
• Carl Sagan

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NASA

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