From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,sci.skeptic,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: "Alternative 3": April Fool! (was: Bookstores and excellent books
Date: 27 Sep 1992 19:14:48 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
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In article <xc5nhtn.jeffp@netcom.com>, jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff Papineau) writes:
>One of the most interesting things about Alternative 3 is that there were
>facts reported on the show that were not released to the press untill
>over a decade later, and issues came up that seemed to be verifyable
>concerning Mars by visual evidence observable from Earth.
>
>First, the actor portraying a Prof. Girstin reported that a Russion
>missile carrying an atomic warhead had blown up on the pad in 1960,
>killing hundreds of Russian scientists. The reported mission of the
>rocket was to deliver it's warhead to Mars in the attempted terra
>forming of the planet. Life magazine stated NASA has
>openly discussed the terraforming of Mars, in its May 1991 issue 
>"Our Next Home, Mars, Bringing
>a Dead World to Life"...

I guess you're not a science fiction fan.  If you were, you'd know that ideas
for terraforming Mars and/or Venus have been kicking around for decades, and
not just in some sort of secret government offices.  Check through the back
issues of _Analog_.

>It was not reported until 1991 by Russian authorities that in fact a 

>There are many books on the theory of the secret space effort

Yeah.  And don't forget Richard Hoagland's (the Cydonia fanatic's) claim of
about 8 months ago that the Mars Observer mission had already been launched
(via space shuttle).  Now, that seemed a bit odd to me at the time, seeing as
how the Mars Observer Camera was sitting in a clean-room about 80 feet from my
office.  Seems even stranger now, since MO seems to have been launched a couple
of days ago, aboard a Titan-3.  Oh, and THIS time, there's actually telemetry
from the MO reaching the Earth.

>There is one thing you can be very sure of:
>NASA is charged with many duties that they do not speak of,

Such as?  I'll even help you out:  They were involved in an evaluation of
alternative energy sources about 11 years ago.  Some they thought looked
promising (e.g., coal transported as a slurry via a pipeline rather than by
rail), some not-so-promising (e.g., solar power satellites and solar thermal
generators on the ground) (well, actually, if one did some creative accounting
involving charging the costs of SPS to the space shuttle program you could make 
SPS look viable).

>there is a space effort by the US that is not publicised,

Evidence, please?

>there are technologies being used that could be far in advance of what we 
>consider to be possible at this time,

Evidence?  Or just a description of what these technologies are?

>and that they won't tell use about it until they feel it will somehow promote
>thier agenda. What ever that agenda is;  we don't know what it is, because of 
>a trite little expression called 'national security' that has outlived
>its justifications.

Ah yes.  The fact that we don't know about this PROVES that it's all true,
because it must take a really huge and successful conspiracy to keep all this
information from us.  You forgot to mention that you might be killed for even
telling us this much.
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Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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