Our government wastes money on some stupid stuff.
After stating the rather obvious, it must be pointed out that there are different levels of stupidity, with some reaching the point of being truly ridiculous. This is not about minor foolishness like shrimps running on treadmills. Last week, information surfaced indicating that some years ago, the CIA made the bold claim that there existed life on Mars, and not just any life but a civilization of humanoid beings capable of building pyramids. It wasn’t the stuff of Tharks, banths, thoats, or beautiful Martian princesses adorned in gems; these were described as simply “very large people.”
How did the CIA determine this? They sent some people to Mars in 1,000,000 BC – through the astral plane.
The detailed report, titled ‘Mars Exploration May 22, 1984,’ outlines how the CIA allegedly employed astral projection—a belief that an individual’s spirit can journey through the astral plane—to transport a chosen ‘subject’ to Mars around one million years BC.
Part of a classified US Army unit called Project Stargate, established in 1977, this study delved into unusual phenomena such as remote viewing, telepathy, and psychokinesis.
Participants were exposed to sounds like binaural beats and hemi-sync audio to induce altered states of consciousness and promote psychic abilities.
I can summarize this in three words: No, they didn’t. The “binaural beats” and “hemi-sync audio” may have induced hallucinations – because these people didn’t enter any astral plane. Why? Because there is no astral plane. This is the purest horse squeeze, utter drivel and goo, and your tax dollars funded it.
But wait! There’s more!
The experiment’s ‘subject’ was transported to the planet during the specified year, reporting an ‘oblique view of a pyramid’ and a ‘very large road’ with a monument similar to those known among ancient Egyptians on Earth, the report claims.
The vision then shifted to a population of ‘very large people’ searching for ‘a new place to live because their environment was corrupted.’
Let’s take this through in stages, shall we? Look at the claims:
The experiment’s ‘subject’ was transported to the planet during the specified year…
No, they weren’t.
…reporting an ‘oblique view of a pyramid’ and a ‘very large road’ with a monument similar to those known among ancient Egyptians on Earth
No. There was no pyramid, no road, and no monument. Maybe they hallucinated them, but they were not real.
The vision then shifted to a population of ‘very large people’ searching for ‘a new place to live because their environment was corrupted.’
No. It didn’t. There were no “very large people.”
Fortunately, someone in Washington in 1995 had a sudden rush of brains to the head and this corral litter was shut down.
It shut down in 1995, but during its more than 10-year existence, psychics known as ‘remote viewers’ participated in a wide array of operations, from locating hostages kidnapped by Islamic terrorist groups to tracing the paths of fugitive criminals within the US.
And, of course, none of these “remote viewers” located any hostages or found any fugitive criminals. Any such results would be the result of mere coincidence because there is no such thing as “remote viewing.” None of this is real; Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom novels are every bit as real as this nonsense, and at least the Barsoom stories have the benefit of being entertaining; I re-read them once a year or so, and they never get old.
But Washington spent money on this, and rest assured, there is still federal spending on equally stupid stuff today.
