The Tycho Brahe Borehole - SciFi Art "Curse of Oak Island" Parody set at Tycho Crater on the Moon

The Tycho Brahe Borehole is a legendary abandoned mine/excavation in massive Tycho Crater on the Moon, believed to be the impact site of a lost Russian space probe from the 1960s. And which some have said contains either a vast hidden treasure, evidence of alien visitation, or an off-planet colony founded by the Knights Templar, dated to 1496. 

And some say, which could have served as the hidden laboratory for an experiment in cross-breeding human and alien species, into a hybrid life form.

Above imagery borrowed from this short subject upload, which was itself meant as a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey crossed with ideas from ALIEN.

Idea is meant as a parody of the ridiculous “Curse of Oak Island” paranormal fringe show my father and I enjoy watching every Tuesday instead of getting things done. It’s an absurd presentation purporting to be scientific and factual. They have yet to get to possible alien visitation but it’s the same narrator History Channel employs for their Ancient Aliens train wreck, and the fatal hit to Oak Island’s credibility his voice brings is instant. It is almost exactly the same narration too, substituting Oak Island phrases for Ancient Astronaut phrases. I sit there grinding my teeth and biting my tongue lest I spoil the fun for my dad. It is after all well-made television and looks like a fine vacation out in the woods.

The show is also far less loathsome than Ancient Aliens, with a more modest looking cast of regular expert types presented as safety-conscious workaday Joe's contracted to help the protagonists get to the bottom Oak Island by digging holes in it. Every non-discovery played off on camera by people who know better as compelling evidence that there may be more to the rumors of treasure than meets the ear. And that each new discovery could bring them one step closer to solving the Mystery of Oak Island so long as it won't preclude another season.

 

Alleged discovery of what was called The Tycho Paragon, Tycho Brahe Crater on the Moon. The crater is real but the "Paragon" was proven to be a hoax staged for Japanese television.

Sources for the ideas abound: Been reading about the alleged Money Pit on Oak Island since a kid, was interesting for a couple years. The late Dr. Carl Sagan taught us on COSMOS about Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and his strained collaboration with Johannes Kepler which resulted in Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion. Most memorably, Brahe is festooned with a gold nose to replace one he lost in a duel. Absurd, but without his careful astronomical observations Kepler could not have calculated the relative motion of the heavens. Which is why both have astronomical features named after them including craters on the Moon visible from Earth.

Pretty sure the anomaly from Arthur C. Clarke's version of 2001 is unearthed at Tycho, will look into that for certainty before mentioning it again. The phrasing of words is purposefully silly, with the word "Borehole" coming from the shooter game Quake II, which has a map in their mine level unit called The Borehole. How it's depicted will likely influence how my Borehole looks, had been wanting to figure a way to get Quake II imagery into my art. It's called screenshots used as backgrounds, or will be. And I can see the project taking on multimedia forms aping the show and its ilk. All sorts of fun to be had here.

Early mission to try and locate the lost satellite. Or was it really?

So we apply the same kind of blather to an imaginary futuristic dig in a crater on the moon for stuff that everyone knows darn well probably isn’t even there. It's just television and they need to come up with an hour of it every week. Much is made of how to date seventeen lives have been lost, six more remain missing, and whatever point there was to the undertaking is a mystery to those who have a clue. Some of whom begged those engaged in the enterprise to please stop and come home to no avail. What began as a modest attempt to find wreckage from a downed Russian satellite becomes a several thousand foot deep borehole and warren of tunnels dug by those convinced there is something significant awaiting discovery. 

There isn’t, but rumor, half-truth, gullibility, wishful thinking, slipshod methodology, and an entertainment industry devoted to such nonsense has time and again prevented saner heads from prevailing. Thank goodness for Humanity in an otherwise barren universe.

Lost Russian Cosmonauts, near panic. Someone better tell Jim Oberg about this.