Mars and conspiracy theories

 NASA runs penal colonies for children on Mars? A theory Americans believed in

The discussion about life on Mars took on a new dimension. And it is by no means a matter of the composition of the atmosphere that favors the development of organisms, but an alleged conspiracy of NASA. The theory about child victims of sexual crimes, sent to hard labor in the Martian wastelands, turns out to be all the more convincing as a former CIA officer is behind it. It became so hot around Mars that NASA had to intervene.

"The power of this world hides most of the facts from us." “They have set up a conspiracy. We go like lambs to the slaughter. " "You do not believe? You're stupid". "They cheat on you." “It's obvious. That's true". How to distinguish fake from reality with such slogans? The more so because behind the conspiracy theory about children's colonies on Mars is an authority - former CIA officer Robert David Steele, and you are not able to check if he is lying.

The revelations troubled several million Americans who received the message from last week's episode of "Alex Jones Show". The radio program is known for blowing up conspiracy theories, which makes it extremely popular: about 5 million people listen to it, and the YouTube channel has about 2 million subscribers and over a billion views.

Records were broken after Steele visited the studio. Nothing turns up the atmosphere like a former CIA officer, who was supposed to find out during his service that as much as 90 percent. information never saw the light of day. An example is the alleged camp on another planet and the fact that, according to Steele, no rover has ever reached the Red Planet.

- We believe there is a colony on Mars. It is inhabited by children who have been kidnapped and sent into space for 20 years - said Steele on the air in a conversation about sexual violence against children. "And once they get to Mars, they have no choice but to work as slaves in the colony," he added.

It's not everything. Steele believes that pedophiles keep babies on Mars and will likely use them when they feel like it. And in the end they kill. They can also - according to a former officer - raise babies for the bone marrow and body parts. It would be a way of preserving eternal youth.

The slandered space organization did not immediately take an interest in Steele's words. After all, this is not the first and not the last science fiction revelation. NASA experts only dropped their hands when it became known how many Americans believed the former head of the CIA.

Guy Webster spokesman took the floor: "There aren't any people on Mars," he told the Daily Beast. - There are active rovers on Mars. Last week there was a rumor that they were not there. They are, but there are no people - he assured.

NASA plans to implement a manned flight to Mars only after 2030.

NASA faked missions to Mars? Fake news!

Photos that have been given a false context have been published on social media. The authenticity of the activities of individual branches of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) has not for the first time been called into question. The false information that American astronauts never landed on the moon, and NASA is hiding the truth about the event, is several dozen years old and is still popular among its supporters. However, this is not the only complaint against this organization. There are also newer unfounded allegations against NASA all the time. On November 6, on the Facebook group Horyzont Zdarzeń, a post was posted in which alleged evidence was given that the organization was fabricating photos taken by their rovers taking part in the mission to Mars. In fact, the photographs are supposed to be of purely terrestrial origin, as evidenced, for example, by a shot in which an animal (also of terrestrial origin) is allegedly visible. What's more, in the entry we can read that NASA is a "Nazi organization". “Relax, we were shocked too. You will digest somehow "- summarizes the content of the post.

The post has been shared more than 120 times, and more than 70 comments have appeared under it. The statements of some internet users indicated that they believed in the alleged evidence made available on the profile. As we can read under the entry: "It has long been known that Mars is shooting in Canada on the island of DEVON !!!", "Nasa and the rest are fools to milk people for money", "Nasa", from Hebrew it means to deceive, cheat. It obliges us to something ”- wrote Facebook users. The photos do not prove that the missions to Mars were bogus. One of them is an excellent example of the so-called pareidolii Nowadays it is not difficult to transform a photo to make it look credible. A simple graphic program is enough to apply the appropriate filter to the photo. This is exactly what we can observe in the case of the entry in question: two photos have been processed. The first is an authentic NASA photo that was taken by the Viking 2 lander in 1976. According to the original context, it shows a panorama of the planet's surface. Just because someone made it look like it was made on Earth (the correct sky color has been added) doesn't mean that it was actually made on Earth. So there is no evidence that the photo was part of a major deception.

The issue of another processed image has already been described by the Teyit fact-checking service. According to information circulating around the network in which this photo comparison appears, NASA processes photos taken in Greenland. Other versions refer to the Canadian island of Devon, where an authentic NASA research project, the Haughton-Mars Project, is being carried out, in preparation for manned missions to this planet. In this case, a free photo editing program called Gimp was used, and the whole process was filmed and shared on YouTube on Ralf Nowotny's channel. When Teyit's fact-checkers asked him for a comment, he wrote back that he was not the author of the material and indicated another user of the network: Danny Wilten (the links provided by Nowotny are no longer active). This is proof enough that NASA is not the author of the remake. On this basis, it cannot be considered that the photo was used to lie to people.

It was done in 2012 by the Curiosity rover and is a prime example of what science calls "pareidolia." As we can read in the article "Neural mechanisms underlying visual pareidolia processing: An fMRI study": "Pareidolia is the interpretation of previously unseen and unrelated objects as acquaintances due to previous experiences." "Neural mechanisms underlying visual pareidolia processing: An fMRI study"

This is why in the photos taken on Mars, some could see, among others dinosaur faces or bones. Others use this ability to find clouds in the shape of specific animals in the sky. NASA is the hero of many rumors that make up a decades-old conspiracy theory NASA was founded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (by no means by "Nazis", as we can read in the entry) under the so-called National Aeronautics and Space Act in 1958, in the times of the so-called cold war. At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were competing with each other in many fields, not only in the military and in terms of influence on other countries, but also in industry and technological development. Part of this "race" took place in outer space. The USSR sent the first man into space, but it was the United States who successfully managed to bring people to the moon and happily returned from it. However, even then many conspiracy theories were born around space missions, the most popular of which is by far the fact that the moon landing was faked, and the footage of this event, broadcast on television, was filmed in a film studio. The thesis that NASA missions are an element of propaganda, is to be supported by further alleged evidence, which include, among others the above-mentioned photos. NASA has successfully carried out several space missions. Several of them concern the research of Mars, as a result of which we already know that there is water on Mars (e.g. in the form of ice on the surface of the planet). This year, the Perseverance rover has landed on the surface of this planet, and you can watch the video of this event online:

It is always worth verifying the context of the photographs that appear on the web and taking into account the possibility of their modification in the form of digital processing, which will help to avoid trusting in false information.

Elon Musk assures that in 2026 people will land on the Red Planet. Will conspiracy theories about Mars cease then? Rather, there will be even more. In this article, I collected the most interesting nonsense about the Red Planet, realizing that I will not convince the unconvinced.

When the Viking 1 spacecraft passed through Mars in 1976, she took a series of photos of the Red Planet. After the photos taken by the probe appeared in the press, readers in one of the photos noticed a 3 km long, 240 m wide… face. At first glance, the geological structure actually looks like a giant face, but actually turned out to be an optical illusion.

In 2007, the Mars rover Spirit took a picture of the landscape of the Red Planet. Attentive Internet users noticed what looked like a figure resembling a woman in the photo. Astronomers quickly dealt with this revelation, explaining that the human shape is a rock that causes an optical illusion. The problem here is the human brain, which sees human shapes everywhere.

NASA's first lie was to be the flight to the moon - the landing of a man on the Silver Globe was shot by Stanley Kubrick in a film studio. Now NASA is projecting a projection of Mars over our heads. I admit that I do not know how to argue with this conspiracy theory. It would make as much sense as getting into arguments with people who believe the Earth is flat and 5G waves make jelly out of the brain.

Percival Lowell was a space promoter who lived at the turn of the 20th century. He argued that Mars was crisscrossed by channels that ancient civilizations used to transport water to areas affected by drought. Probes and rovers that reached the Red Planet did not confirm Percival's revelation. All channels on Mars are the result of natural processes, such as erosion.

We are all excited that the colonization of Mars is a vision of the near future. However, do you realize that none of you will fly to the Red Planet?