Apr 26 2008
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Monkeys On Mars?
The Russian Space Agency has announced that it is planning to send primates ahead of us to test physiological reactions to the flight, specifically radiation exposure. This is apparently in preparation to send humans on an extended mission to the red planet.
Read the whole strange story at Universe Today.
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April 26th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Cruel.
It doesn’t say much about the flight plan. For example, will these animals make it back, or will they be left to starve to death, or be exterminated while in space.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am
I agree forrest; and there’s also the threat that these monkeys turn super-intelligent due to the exposure to cosmic rays! Just as it was shown on this documentary I saw… no wait… oh! it was a Simpsons episode so never mind
April 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
The Planet of the Apes jokes write themselves, don’t they?
April 27th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Yes monkey is one of the most intelligent creature, and much b.etter for to be the one who will try first rather than to send
human.
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April 27th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Greg: I think we should have sent the monkey to Marrs instead — one of his remote viewing projects that is.
Holistic thinking was the pet-project of the Nazis precisely because “holistic thinking” was cushioned within the religion of technology.
But there is always this subversive matrifocal horticulture thing going on. I would say this goes back to the difference between chimps and bonobos or fruit-based gorillas and plant-based gorillas.
When primates started relying on a limited resource, high in fat, for food — FRUIT - then our bodies became property (i.e. rape and monogamy were practiced in exchange for food).
So there’s something really deep going on here about a struggle between the cortex and the limbic region of the brain — which I argue is resolved by the pineal gland’s ability to over-ride the conflict, by bringing in the amplitude of the cerebellum-body physiology.
That’s again what REAL permanent culture is — adapting to our environment just as reptiles (ALIENS) do — going into hibernation when it’s cold, for example.
So it’s not about just going to a culture BEFORE property-based horticulture (the foraging of the Koi-san before 10,000 BCE) but also before the hunting of the male koi-san primates (which was jeopardized before 90,000 BCE in a severe drought). Remember the Koi-san trance healers technically are no longer human!
I would say around 100,000 BCE humans faced an ecological juggernaut, much like today, when our brains were forced to resort to our reptilian (ALIEN) ability to truly adapt to extreme temperatures (both cold and hot) and even to our innate plant abilities to create energy straight from the sun (MUTUS LIBER).
I’m taking about truly being like a piece of shit or even a 4 billion year old rock — that chunk of iron left over from a star — that helium and hydrogen — that ion or even better
That “QUANTUM FLUID” whereby through very high frequency resonance (the Hall Effect) — electrons turn into photons which themselves turn into white holes of light, bent by spacetime itself (refractive index), all guided by that which can not been seen:
female formless awareness.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Forrest,
It’s interesting that most people wouldn’t have been very offended by using monkeys for spaceflight testing even 20 years ago. I think it’s a good thing that we are finally trying to look at life in a more egalitarian way.
Seeing as how it’s the Russians, who I don’t think have a population that will protest much, the monkeys will probably just be left in space to die. Unfortunately, it’s cheaper that way.