I couldn't open the tiny image icon that ended your post, but I did check out the uncle gadget website, his extraordinary enhancements of the NASA imagery, and his even more astounding interpretation of the result.

What do these guys do when NASA publishes the hi-res stuff, simply dismiss it as a government cover-up? Black helicopters, jack-booted storm troopers, climatologist cabals, Socialist Kenyan Muslim conspiracies, etcetera, etcetera.

I think there's more to this than just a little individual anomalistic looniness. We are becoming swamped by a tsunami of conspiracies. From Bengazi committees to truthers, birthers, third termers, gummint invasions of Texas and concentration camps for god-fearin', gun-owin' 'merkin citzens.

Its a form of mass hysteria, with a probable origin in the shared subconscious realization that the good ole postwar prosperity is finally coming to an end, propagated at the speed of thought by the new digital media technology.

Ever read Huxley's "The Devils of Loudun"?