It's been documented that NASA and other scientists dissmissed Cydonia without investigation. A scientist, Thomas Van Flanderen gave billion to one odds against all the features at Cydonia being natural. Contrary to critics claims, the face and Cydonia aren't just hills and sand dunes and the pyramids were not built just for the heck of it by Egyptians. I hate to break the string of 33 reviews, but the Egyptair crash had enough 33s for many reviews. What has happened to humankind's curiosity? Our curiosity is what got our civilization this far.
All he wants is answers, and apparently the 'scientific' community doesn't, or at least doesn't care. Do we really think we already know all there is to know about this? Hoagland doesn't ever claim to know everything about this. It is more a criticism of the closed-mindedness that is stopping mankind from making progress and discoveries that could change the world as we know it. To me, this book is much more than a book about strange Martian constructions. Why are they so intent on dismissing Hoagland's theories so quickly, without really knowing? I think it has something to do with a fear that their own belief systems are threatened by any seemingly implausible evidence or theories. Apparently, just because Mars is so far away, this automatically disqualifies it from further study). This could be true, but how can these people be so sure? Would these same people dismiss the Egyptian pyramids as natural formations too? (Obviously not, since they are close by and easy to study. I've read reviews from others who just laugh and say that these formations are just coincidental and formed by nature. I personally still have not been convinced of anything on this 'Face on Mars' one way or the other, but Hoagland's theories are fascinating and well thought out enough that I don't think they can be dismissed out of hand. Since then, I've been on kind of a personal quest to find out why people have such a problem accepting anything Hoagland says. I began talking to everyone I knew about this, and discovered that even people I had previously thought to be open-minded were actually pretty closed minded on this subject. That is to say I began to wonder about whether what we all have been taught to accept as 'fact' was in fact real. That book (348 pages, much smaller than this updated version) caused me to begin questioning the human belief system. I've been following this since I read the first (?) edition of this book published in 1987. This book is absolutely compelling reading from page one.
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