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originally posted by: MystikMushroom
Thought. . .
The people involved in a project of this magnitude would have to be kept very quiet. This to me would mean that they don't have any family or friends wondering what they're doing "back home".
What if people that are recruited into this whole thing have their deaths faked? It would cut all ties to anyone here on Earth.
We might want to keep track of scientists who die, and especially ones who would be valuable in a space program. If they're smart, they wouldn't bump off many at a time -- but perhaps they're not smart enough to stagger the faked deaths randomly enough. We may start to see a pattern (1-2 every 6 months on the dot kind of thing).
Has anyone else thought about this?
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
Well, I'm wondering if certain fields of study in the sciences might have a slightly high "mortality" rate in grad school than others...
It would be hard to pin down the number of scientists in specific fields dying on an annual basis. But, you could cross reference those deaths with the WAY in which they died.
Deaths that include a loss of the body (dismemberment, fire, ect) -- would probably be the way they'd fake the death. No body to ID for a friend or family member.
They're probably not doing it enough for rumors to start spreading about which science fields are "cursed" -- but there may be a latent pattern that would emerge of you started graphing the data over time.
That alone might prove there's a secret project that requires scientists being hidden from the public at least...
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
Thought. . .
The people involved in a project of this magnitude would have to be kept very quiet. This to me would mean that they don't have any family or friends wondering what they're doing "back home".
What if people that are recruited into this whole thing have their deaths faked? It would cut all ties to anyone here on Earth.
We might want to keep track of scientists who die, and especially ones who would be valuable in a space program. If they're smart, they wouldn't bump off many at a time -- but perhaps they're not smart enough to stagger the faked deaths randomly enough. We may start to see a pattern (1-2 every 6 months on the dot kind of thing).
Has anyone else thought about this?
originally posted by: MystikMushroom
a reply to: tetra50
And this is why you have nutters like the guy claiming he was stationed on Mars and didn't age or something. You put 10-20% truth in there, and the rest complete pie in the sky hogwash ... now no one knows what to believe, and anyone doing serious research into the subject looks like a crazy fool.
They make sure to put just the right "big" parts into the disinformation...Mars, Moon, black triangles, secret space program -- then throw in jump gates and all kinds of weird stuff like reverse aging to make the whole thing look like the ramblings of a psych ward patient.
originally posted by: engineercutout
a reply to: cavtrooper7
Well passively, sure, but do you think the emissions from some phones could be used as an active weapon? I'd guess with the right NLP program you could put anyone suggestible enough to sleep easily enough, even just using lights and/or sounds. I'd also guess it could be done with the right em emissions.