Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Jul 9, 2006 23:25:18 GMT -6
1876: Prisoners of the Moon
[/b]An article in the Chicago Times in February 1876 claimed that great discoveries had recently been made by a powerful new telescope erected outside of Paris. Apparently this new telescope had been able to detect buildings on the moon. It had even shown bands of workers who were evidently undergoing some form of penal servitude, since they were all chained together.
1874: Cracks in the Moon
A January 1874 article in the New York World claimed that the moon's frame was gradually cracking, and was in danger of falling into several separate fragments.