We have been told in school that it was Christopher Columbus the person who found out that the Earth is round and set out on a journey to prove it.

It is just one of the many “little” lies that have been told in history classes today. But Christopher Columbus did not discover the Earth was round. Actually, Columbus was about 2,000 years too late to prove the Earth was in fact round.

Columbus greatly underestimated the Earth’s circumference.

So who discovered or proved the Earth was round?

Eratosthenes (276-194 B.C.) the father of “Geography,” made the discovery around seventeen hundred years before Columbus. He speculated that the Earth was shaped like a ball based on the stories and myths of Greek sailors before proving his assumption.

Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist is best known for being the first ever person on Earth who calculated the circumference of the Earth, and he did so by never leaving Egypt.

He was able to calculate the circumference of our planet by applying a measuring system using stadia (A Stadion or stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length equal to a typical sports stadium at that time.)

Even though Eratosthenes’ discoveries are numerous, among the most important ones is his calculation of the tilt of the Earth’s axis, but it is believed that he also was able to calculate the distance from the Earth to the Sun, thousands of years before “mainstream science.”

Eratosthenes was also the person who created the first map of the world incorporating parallels and meridians with the available geographical knowledge of the era.

Hew was also the first to use a system of latitude and longitude in Geography.

Eratosthenes managed to measure the distance between ancient Alexandria and Syene and concluded that they were separated by five hundred miles. He based his calculations on the average speed of Camel caravans that traveled the distance.

He continued his observations and noted that at noon, on the summer solstice which s the longest day of the year, there were no shadows being casted in a well in the city of Syene in Egypt. The Sun was directly overhead at that time, so he assumed that the Sun was so far off that the Rays of our Star were approaching Earth in parallel.

Furthermore, because the Sun set at the same time when it was directly between the cities of Alexandria and Syene, he concluded that the city of Syene to be on the same meridian as the city of Alexandria.

On the summer solstice, exactly at noon, in ancient Alexandria, Eratosthenes was able to measure the angle of the sun’s rays concluding they were 7.2 degrees angle with a tall rod.

His measurements, calculations, and assumptions were more accurate with every new study. Eratosthenes knew that in his hometown Alexandria, based on calculations, the angle of elevation of the sun was 1/50th of a circle which is 7º12′ south of the Zenit on Solstice noon.

He assumed that Alexandria was north of Syene and that the Earth was in fact spherical, having 360º, he concluded that the meridian arc distance from Alexandria to Syene to be 1/50 = 7º12’/360º, hence obtaining 1/50 fo the total circumference of the Earth.

Eratosthenes knew that five hundred miles was 1/50 the circumference of our planet, so he sed fifty of these lengths to surround the entire Earth. He went on and multiplied five hundred miles by fifty and obtained twenty-five thousand miles. Eratosthenes added another two hundred miles because of “potential bad measurements.”

This is how Eratosthenes concluded that the circumference of the Earth to be 25,200 miles. The actual measurement of the circumference of Earth is 24,901 miles or 40,075 km.

Even though the Apollo missions brought back to Earth huge amounts of data about the moon, it has remained an enigma for astronomers and scientists alike. Dr. Robert Jastrow, the first president of NASA’s Commission of Lunar Exploration called the moon “the Rosetta Stone of the planets.”

But what is it about the moon that fascinates everyone?

Well, there are many people who firmly believe that Earth’s moon is actually a terraformed and engineered piece of hardware that has a 3-mile thick outer layer of dust and rocks. Beneath this layer, it is believed that the moon has a solid shell of around 20 miles made of highly resistant materials such as titanium, uranium 236, neptunium 237. 

Definitely, elements that you would not expect to find “inside” the moon.

There are many UFOlogists around the world who speculate that the moon is actually a giant base where extraterrestrials survey mankind’s progress.

There are so many mysteries surrounding Earth’s moon that there are those who have proposed that the moon could be something entirely different.

Robin Brett, a scientist from NASA stated, “It seems easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.”

Here are 7 Irregularities that suggest Earth’s Moon was engineered and might be a giant hollow base:

1) The Moon seems engineered. On November of 1969, NASA intentionally crashed a lunar module that caused an impact equivalent to one ton of TNT on the Moon. The shock waves built up and NASA scientists listened to what was happening on the Moon. Strangely, after impact, NASA scientists said that the Moon rang like a bell and the reverberation continued for thirty minutes. According to Ken Johnson, supervisor of the data and photo control department, the Moon not only rang like a bell but the whole Moon “wobbled” in such a precise way that it was “almost as though it had gigantic hydraulic damper struts inside it.

2) The Moon has elements it should not have. In the 1970’s, Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcerbakov from the Soviet Academy of Science wrote an article called: “Is the Moon the creation of Alien Intelligence?” It was a very interesting article that asked some important questions. How is it possible that the surface of the moon is so hard and why does it contain minerals like Titanium? Mysteriously there are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED METALS such as Brass, the elements of Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 that have NEVER been found to occur naturally. Yet there are traces of them on the Moon. Uranium 236 is a radioactive nuclear waste which is found in spent nuclear and reprocessed Uranium. More interestingly, Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of Plutonium. You have to ask the question: What is happening on Earth’s Moon? From where do these elements and minerals come from?

3) Earth’s Moon does not have a solid core like every other planetary object. Researchers are nearly 100 percent sure that the Moon is, in fact, hollow or has a very low-intensity interior. Strangely, the Moon’s concentration of mass is located at a series of points just below the surface.

4) The Moon is older than Earth. Our Moon is unlike any other satellite discovered in the known universe. Researchers know the Moon is 4.6 billion years old and that raises a lot of questions. This means that the moon is older than the Earth by nearly 800,000 years according to scientists.

5) Incredible orbit. Earth’s moon is the only moon in the solar system that has a stationary, nearly “perfect” circular orbit. It’s a fact that the Moon does not spin like a natural celestial body. In other words, our Moon does not share any characteristics with other moons found in our Solar System. If that isn’t strange enough, consider that from any point on the surface of our planet only one side of the Moon is visible. What is the moon hiding?

6) Lunar rocks and titanium. There are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain ten times more titanium than “titanium rich” rocks on planet Earth. Here on Earth, we use Titanium in supersonic jets, deep diving submarines and spacecraft. It’s unexplainable. Dr Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry said he was “terribly puzzled by the rocks astronauts found on the moon and their Titanium content. The samples were unimaginable and mind-blowing since researchers could not account for the presence of Titanium.

7) Precise position. If all of the above points do not get you to think differently about the Earth’s moon; here are some more interesting things about the Moon. What is keeping the moon in its nearly perfect position? The moon has a precise altitude, course and speed, allowing it to “function” properly in regards of planet Earth.

Simply put the Moon should not be where it is currently. Everything points to the possibility that Earth’s moon was in fact placed into its current orbit in the distant past. The Moon’s unnatural orbit and irregular composition raise hundreds of questions that neither NASA scientists, astronomers or geologists are able to answer today. Despite all efforts to understand Earth’s “natural” satellite, the truth is that we have very little information about the Moon’s origin and purpose. What do you think the moon is? A nearly perfect natural occurrence? Or do the Moon’s origins surpass human understanding?