Memories of the 28th Century

It is frightening how gullible most people are. That subject has come up a few times today, so I will honor it with a blog post. Apparently there were aliens on the Moon to greet Neil Armstrong, and there is an ancient alien base on the Moon. There are many websites that have detailed information about human and alien activities on the Moon and on Mars. Some of the information is perfectly serious; some might be legitimate data about those places, and some was clearly put together for humor.

The art of creating complicated “practical jokes” has been around for centuries, and it doesn’t show any sign of going away. The chicken on Mars is cute, and sort of funny, but it doesn’t convince any except the most gullible that there are chickens on Mars. There are plenty of videos of things on Mars, and some of them are rather persuasive, but low resolution pictures can be very deceptive. But the most persuasive is that the White House denied that Obama went to Mars.

As jokes the stories about alien bases on Mars and the Moon, and so on are amusing and interesting. Unfortunately, there are people who accept all of that stuff uncritically. Some of the material is serious, but most of it is simply humorous. It is so difficult to distinguish the chaff from the grain that I regard it all as crap, even though I have seen UFOs that did things that no aircraft could have done. I don’t reject such things as hoaxes, because I have a closed mind. I reject them, because I have a fair understanding of how fertile imaginations can be, and I bother to look for actual facts instead of simply accepting whatever anyone presents. There are many people who lack the intellectual capacity to determine whether something might be real, and those people will swallow all sorts of conspiracy theories.

It is unfortunate, but the news media cater to such people, because if someone will believe that the U.S. has a base on Mars, then they probably will believe all kinds of marketing copy. The courts in the U.S. still hold that “puffing” a product for marketing is perfectly legal, even if the puffery is a pack of lies. If marketers can lie about products to sell them, then hucksters can lie about alien bases on the Moon to sell videos, books, or whatever. I suppose that I am suggesting that some people need to be protected do to their intellectual level. That's the problem with being fair and reasonable, I see marketing puffery, conspiracies, and similar things as taking advantage of people who are incapable of taking care of themselves.

I don't want to spend much more time on this, but if anyone has any actual proof of alien bases on the Moon or Mars or on Earth, then I would like to find the information. Some of the photos from Mars do look like interesting things that shouldn't be there, but low resolution photos can look very strange. There is enough material on the internet to keep someone busy for months, and I don't want to waste that much time.

The other matter is how people can be taught to tell that a conspiracy theory is a complicated joke?



http://coolinterestingstuff.com/secr...ase-conspiracy
http://alienmoonbase.com/cia-anonymo...ssion-area-51/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01pG...A81EDF&index=4
Alien walking on Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wrTkK2p3B0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctRsGbZpzU
Obama on Moon
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopoli...to-mars-1.html
Chicken on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mOxQghay9w
Humanoids on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru2EeRg_tZo
White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars
http://www.wired.com/2012/01/obama-mars/

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