Billionaires And Astrology: Elite Belief Systems

What does the world look like when you know that mankind is significantly older than is publicly stated, probably originated offworld, possibly on at least one highly anomalous nearby planet, that UFOs are real but are much stranger than aliens and that magic and psi effects work… and yet your primary concern is to become slightly richer?

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Getting into space? Well, does there happen to be an entire civilisation built on precise astronomic observations and timings that existed and flourished for longer than we have been around? Can we retrofit any of that tech into the space programme if it will move the needle a little bit? Should we?

Well, yes. Shuttles are expensive. We probably should.

And so we come back to Bush and the Saudis, and Rockefeller and the crop circles. You and I may be philosophically interested in these matters, but at the very top you’re really just looking for strategic advantage.

Will this move the needle? Will I get slightly richer? If the cost of deploying ritual tech is near-zero then of course you’re going to do it. In your heart of hearts, do you really believe that any of the Bushes give the slightest crap that our solar system may well contain vastly ancient offworld ruins?

I am one person removed from an anecdote to do with one of the new crop of space billionaires, but for very obvious reasons you’ll have to ask me about it in person. The gist of it is that no one is “briefed” or “read into” the current conclusions of whoever is formulating such conclusions (it’s unlikely to be a single group, anyway), but they do appear to be quietly told out of the corner of someone’s mouth “you might see some shit up there” and that’s it. There’s money to be made, after all.

Returning to the original question about billionaires and astrology. They don’t believe in it because it is a beautiful cultural expression of mankind’s stellar origins and unique place in the Cosmos, they believe in it because it works.

There is no room on the ledger for anything else.

Billionaires And Astrology: Elite Belief Systems

Saturn’s Hexagon: Ornament View

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you

Neil deGrasse Tyson (via garp)

Dr Kane knows he’s dying.. or rather, is/was dead and is currently re-dying.

He asks to see The Stars one more time, realizing he’s just a shadow of his former self.

The FTL Effect – possible benefits include: mending fractured souls.

Hospital bed with an #overvieweffect on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Ripley, recovering from an usually long hypersleep (57 years), has a bed in a hospital in space with a view.
(but what about Jonsie? Cat’s just bounce right back from hypersleep?!)

Ultimately, Hadfield says, being in space and staring down at the twinkling “jewel” that is the Earth, one quickly comes to realize how complex and compassionate our planet really is: “I think what everyone would find if they could be [up in space] — if they could see the whole world every 90 minutes and look down on the places where we do things right, and look down where we’re doing stupid, brutal things to each other and the inevitable patience of the world that houses us — I think everybody would be reinforced in their faith, and maybe readdress the real true tenets of what’s good and what gives them strength.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4235055 | http://www.npr.org/2013/10/30/241830872/astronaut-chris–hadfield-brings-lessons-from-space-down-to-earth