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originally posted by: moebius
a reply to: crowdedskies
It is not about technology but about money.
NASA budget back then peaked at 4.4% of federal budget. But already in 1975 it dropped to 1% and is currently at 0.5%.
Some also say that it was the space shuttle programm that kept NASA stuck in low orbit by eating up large amounts of its budget.
According to NASA, a vessel with humans on it would take roughly six months to travel to Mars and another six months to travel back from Mars. In addition, astronauts would have to stay 18-20 months on Mars before the planets re-align for a return trip. In all, the mission would take roughly 2 1/2 years.
originally posted by: Argentbenign
a reply to: crowdedskies interesting theories.
I have mine of course, which are a bit different. I'm convinced that the mass ET's we heard about are hoaxes, carefully produced to confuse certain groups of people and absorb their creative potential for the aims of the high priesthood which is holding power since ancient times. It is quite unlikely the landing of the moon to be real, neither. It was perfect mass delusion for the same reason, bring the aim of creative power to the agenda they wished for. Humans are willingly selling their inspiration and souls, for this what they most highly regard, and if this would be a fata morgana, matters not. Technocracy happens to be so powerful idea, exactly because people believe in it, and are worshipping it on all cultural levels. Technology and science are power words, just like pizza. They are something having imaginative power, a power with no substance, a power fed only by our collective intelligences. Gold has the same power, money too, life also. All carefully premeditated by the priesthood itself. Magic is not only the ridiculous idea of throwing fireballs from your palms, magic is not only to sense things before they appear, magic consists of the manipulation of energy sources, directing them to desired result, by changing their natural course and flow, like making a dam on a river, or creating electricity from magnetic fields. And human intelligence is a source of that kind. Make man to love the idea of torturing others and he will do it willingly when opportunity comes. Make man to love space ships and he will build them when his tools allow. Make man love physical experience to the limits of love itself, and man will fear death with the same boundless power of love. Now you cannot make every man to change himself from A to Z just in a lifetime, but seeding your ideas in the generations of his culture, they become solid as iron, and accepted by default, with no questioning. Then your agenda slowly but relentlessly dominates over all other ideas in the conscious of humanity. It's like selling pizza, first create the cult for pizza, then just open your shops on the street corners. No matter what is the real value of the food called pizza, people will regard it not with their rational minds, but will think of it with the subconscious, which is attached to the power of the cult itself. The same you can make people hate things. Like feeling confused without toilet paper and wet wipes, or salt and pepper. And worst, being unable to think for themselves, as it is proposed that collective humanity is so smart, that you just have to listen to the info sources of the day, and you know exactly everything. Read a magazine, watch the news and leave your brain in the bin. That's the motto of 21st century.
Always against and true,
Argent
originally posted by: Argentbenign
a reply to: crowdedskies
You guessed it right, I neither like BS. Now we have to bring back the brains to the other 99,998 people on ATS, and we can have a small army to turn the tables.