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Originally Posted by Lord Hakk
but wouldnet a guy who is smart enough to map mars and everything, notice when we looked at, say, the moon, it had the same canals, so then he would have found out and bought a new telescope or lense?
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But like we already established, there ARE no canals that we see on the Moon, so why would he see them there?
Edit: The moon is also much, much closer to the Earth, so we can observe it with the naked eye, whereas Mars must be observed through a telescope. Lowell had a very good imagination.
Carl Sagan once commented upon Percival Lowell's Martian canali (which by the way was a term Lowell did NOT coin). Sagan said something like "Lowell's observations was certainly evidence of intelligence in the universe. But at which end of the telescope?".
