GOLDIN / MARS FACE
Mon, 02 Dec 1996 01:34:44 -0700
Source: AUFORA News Update
GOLDIN COMMENTS ON MARS FACE
Transcipt:
Dan Goldin, NASA Administrator
at The Freedom Foundation
The Freedom Forum
- New York City Conference Center
Science, Space and Technology Panel
(November 19, 1996)
Goldin:
I'd like to go at this just a little bit and say I want to argue a
little bit
with you Leon. There are people that have a different set of
understandings and
beliefs, and let me pick on one subject. There are
some people who believe that
there is a Face on Mars. There were
pictures taken from some Viking spacecraft,
and if you look at the right
kind of shadows you could imagine that there is a
Face on Mars."
"Now
there's two ways that NASA could approach this: one, we could
say: "You
don't know what you're talking about; we know that there couldn't be a
civilization on Mars, and therefore we'll never take a picture of that
spot."
But, there are taxpayers who believe this. So one of the things
we are going to
do on our next mission is when the spacecraft goes over
that spot, if we have
the right pointing, we'll try and take a picture,
and scientifically show what
we have found. And I think we have to be
somewhat sensitive, especially when
we're dealing with government money,
to recognize some of the issues that the
public has."
"Now in the past,
NASA has been severely criticized every time people
would come with
ideas; immediately we had a tendency to say no. And sometimes we
have to
be a little bit more open with it. Now, I'm not going into wild and
crazy things; but it's very easy for scientists to dismiss out of hand
things
that the general public believes in, and to say: "This is wild.
This is crazy.
We're not going to talk to you." Or you could also say:
"Let me consider what
you're saying, and let me give you some data so
you could draw your own
conclusions, and not tell you the answer."
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