THIS MAGAZINE’S report on speculation that the odd colours of
Jupiter’s moon Europa may be caused by traces of extremophile bacteria
(8 December, p 9)
produced a mini-snowstorm of letters complaining that we hadn’t credited the
idea to one Richard Hoagland.
Who he, we wondered. We’re getting worse at remembering facts, because we
have machines to do that for us. So off to trusty www.google.com, where the
summary of the very first hit announces: “Richard Hoagland’s official site,
devoted to his theories about the Face on Mars, NASA conspiracies,…” Ah, that
Richard Hoagland. And his website responds testily to the…
