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originally posted by: Direne
About introducing radical changes in the surrounding environment to induce mystical states in people there is not literature available.
That is: a face-to-face contact is never advisable. We think the first contact will happen between probes,
A genuine crashed UFO (genuine in that it is an extraterrestrial object, but a white lie in that it never really crashed, it was planted instead) is a white lie, but it makes no real harm to the contact's intent and purport.
It is a delicate process, and a process in which at least one of the partners (humans) is highly asymmetric, that is, a partner ruled by a small minority, consisting of members of the economic elite and policy-planning networks.
I'd like to mention that there is a kind of contact, called forced contact , in which at least one of the parties is forced to contact the other party for reasons having to do with the survival of its civilization.
Trust, I'm afraid, is also subject to the vicissitudes of time.
originally posted by: KilgoreTrout
I'm curious GUT, has Direne's truly excellent post in reply to your question about plasmas shed any further light on your Appallachian "encounter"?
The internet is already transcendental experience 'manifest'. Before 'space' awfully divides us, but now thanks to the internet we are connected over and through it. Thanks Nikolai. It's only a matter of time before we 'humans' utilize 'imagination' for good use.
"We too have a grand strategy from which regional strategies derive. We need to confront China in two decades from now, before China gets on par with us from the technological point of view. However, we need first to rethink the implications for interstate energy relations in a world which is transitioning towards renewable energy. Basically, our grand strategy relies on taking China into a war in two decades"
"We designed, funded, and launched the global climate change denial groups not because we doubted global warming was an unfounded claim; on the contrary, we knew climate change was a coming reality, but we needed time to refine our predictive models and run simulations in order to know how the shift to renawable energies would impact our global strategy. We now have a roughly clear idea on the future's landscape and what to do to adapt to it. We know where the scarce water resources will be, we know where renewables will be feasible and where not, and we know where to locate hubs and how the supergrid will be arranged. And we are acting accordingly, now."
"China dreams of leading by 2050 a number of international institutions that will shape the global energy landscape. That would mean less transparency in emissions reporting and an improvement of its emissions targets, something we are not ready to tolerate. In the future, countries will embrace protectionism as clean energy industries rise in value, and that means the end of free trade. Maybe is time for us to place a new Idiot as prime minister there as a first step for its disintegration. And if that fails, then there will be no other way than a war. That's the grand strategy: preserving Sol-3 at the expense of humans, if required."