Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20130415204132/@comment-7186329-20130426152024

Sometimes i am uncertain if we really are. For those in power that are puposly destroying humanity and undermining the values and intelligence of the species will do anything to stay in power. That would mean that unless all the people of the world act together to remove them, the attempts at that will be dismissed or not covered by the fully controled Mass media that most people rely on for `real information` on significant events. Most people do not seem to realise that on a daily basis people everywhere are rising up and there are protest all around the world. The mass media purposely doesn`t cover them so as not to start a chain reaction or keep people in the dark about what is really happening in the world. An example of the extent of the manipulation would be this. First world war- 10% civilian casualties, II WW- 40% civilian casualties, war in Vietnam- 60% civilian casualties, `war` in Iraq- over 90% civilian casualties. So, because CNN shows some pictures of a soldier pointing their gun at `something`, or shows how their military drop bombs on buildings, people seem to think that `Wow! they must be `fighting a war`. The masses of society do not seem to realise that the media NEVER shows what happens afrer the US bombs a hospital, and the bodies of the dead children there, or what that soldier is shooting at.

Fun Fact: The Us government has a policy to disclose classified information after the span of 50 years. They confessed that they did everything to provoke the attack on Pearl Harbour and knew of it well in advance. Just needed a reason to enter the war. They also admitted that the reson for entering the war in Vietnam was forged. So, we have to wait 40 years for them to confess to september 11 fot a reason to invade Iraq. Of course the media there did not cover the protests in fron of the White house, or the site of the towers. They also seem to make movies about those events afterwards, as additional forgery, because most people would rather watch them instead of acually reading.

Which leads me to my point. If an improvement of the state of the world is to happen the people need to be able to distinguish clearly between the propaganda and what really happened. That means they need intelligence to make that distinction. Are the current generations, and will the future ones be smart enought for that? That is what worries me.

You are correct, only less than 2 percent of the sky is being monitored for planet killer asteroids, or celestial bodies. And of course most people think that if an asteroid on a collision course is detected we can just throw some nukes at it, blow it up, and its gonna be fine. Ignorance rarely gets more severe than that.

I agree that humanity can and should colonise other planets. But i also think that before we do that our home planet should be healed. Destroying a planet, harvesting all of its rescources and then moving on is simply not an option. The planet Earth has enought rescources to sustain ,by some estimates, a population of 15 billion. That is only feasible if the rescource managment system such as the Venus project comes to fruition.

Don`t worry about the shuttle program. As i said, the level of technology made available to people and that working in a lab, or experimentations is ,at the least, 100 years different. There already are models and experiments with existing technology that make the model of the space shuttles obsolete. What needs to be answered is where are all the funds going, if not for the space program.

The planet earth is an ocean planet. If all the water stored in the mantle of the planet goes to the surface mt Everest would be underwater by a few kilometeres. Even the natural climate of the planet is not supposed to be stable and mild. People seem to think that this `global warming` will lead to longer summer, but it will actually lead to a severe ice age.

I agree with on that, you are correct.