What is your conspiracy fear that seems like nobody else thinks about?
I have a few.
The moon should never be built on or mined. It's a celestial body with significant mass that creates real physical changes to the surface of Earth. Don't mess with that balance.
DNA sequencing businesses are subject to fluctuations in the economy as any other business. The DNA from customers if stored indefinitely can be subject to nefarious business practices once any protective sanctions time out. The first to use the information to profit would set the course of any DNA related monitoring with little resistance.
My own conspiracy theory is a little different. It may not be an intentional conspiracy, or even a conscious one. The result is the same.
Human society has not changed in one important aspect. We still have slaves/serfs. We tell people they are free yet they are restrained. Socio economic shackles. Ignore taxes, they are minor and quite transparent by comparison.
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Summary, rich get richer, poor get poorer.
People won't fill in the gap because they are on the treadmill trying to get ahead, trying to be on winning side in life. We are all just ants, harvesting for the hive, for the benefit of the hive controllers.
I like to think of it in terms of a troop of baboons. One leader/bully with his high-rankers controlling the pitiful lower classes...having to share the fruits of their labor with the dominant monkeys.
That my second wife was hired by my first wife to torture me till the day I die. Didn't work though, I divorced second wife and I'm still alive.
Building a colony on the Moon is not going to interrupt a darn thing - mining it is a completely different issue. The plan to get to Mars does not include mining the Moon because there's nothing really of interest to mine. In terms of your DNA analysis - I got nothing - to me it's fear mongering at best.
There is a huge amount of helium-3. And a almost infinite amount of rare earth minerals.
@WizardBill - I should have added no resources that are cost effective to mine.
I believe that the mass shootings are what’s called the Blue house Effect” or basically trends. And 2nd amendment changes is going to have no effect whatsoever. That changing the way the media “ glorifies the killers” giving them a name and notoriety. A way to be remembered is the only real way to combat it. But the news thrives off of terrified people and only care about the ratings. Not lives.
I agree. Keeping shootings in the news begets more shootings.
Bombing syria to distract us of what should be the people of The United States real priorities.
Do I see a fan of the old sci fi show Space: 1999?
The only problem with mining the moon is its low gravity and how long people could stay there safely without bone loss.
At the moment, the only nefarious thing genetic identity could be used for but can't because it is prohibited, is for the purpose of life insurance.
The "only problem with mining the moon is...bone loss." Actually, there are so many problems that extracting those very rare elements from Earth would cost less.
@dahermit Not if they will be used for Mars colonization. Mining the moon would be cheaper than hauling it off Earth.
@LucifersPen Mars colonization is much of myth. No protection from cosmic rays, only 1/4 the sunlight, no liquid water, no oxygen, etc. Terraforming is the realm of science-fiction. There is no good reason to try and colonize Mars. The extent of practicality would be a few temporary scientific expeditions.
A really interesting observation is the size of the moon really makes us a binary planetary system, which may have really help encourage the start and evolution of life on earth.
I don't believe conspiracy theories.
You do know of course that the presidential assassination was a conspiracy, don't you? Although Mrs. Mary Suratt was likely innocent. Oh, you thought we were talking about the Kennedy Assassination?
Certainly, I'm not worried about anyone messing with the moon. Hell, we can't even get back to the moon!
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Whatever method we eventually decide to screw up the moon with, changing its mass will be the least of our worries. The moon is a very, very, very large rock and has a corresponding gravitational field. Getting anything onto or off the moon will be an expensive and energy-consuming business - changes to its mass will be negligible.
Unless we accidentally blow it up. The harm we have done to our own planet hasnt been on purpose but as a result of 'improving' our own lives - plastic, burning coal, hypodermic needles, birds killed by wind turbines, nuclear waste, the extinction of the dodo... I could go on.
As for not building on the moon, mining it due to "balance", you are right about the moon affecting earth's stability. However, the moon is being lost (distance increasing) to earth at the rate of a fraction of an inch each year. So eventually the midigating effect it has on Earth's orbit will be lost anyway. Consider that mining relative to the moon, only very rare and valuable elements (in small amounts), would every be feasable. All the more common ones would be way too expensive to transport to the Earth and down to the surface. In alsmost all cases, it would just be cheaper to extract rare elements on Earth itself rather that bear the expense of attempting to mine them on the moon.
Yes, this. Maybe that's a reason TO mine the moon, to keep it close. Imagine the calculations required for that though, measure twice, mine once!
According to the alleged secret government whistle blowers, the moon is artificial, and we've have time and space travel since WW ll, when the Germans back-engineered several crashed UFOs, but our government and several other countries keep everything classified and hidden from the public so they don't have to share the technology.
These same stories have been verified by numerous astronauts, NSA agents, government leaders and US presidents for decades, and many of their interview videos, admitting to this, can be seen on the documentary "Unacknowledged," on Netflix or YouTube.
You can google it.
By the way, if people try to troll me for this answer, I'll just block them.
That some crack pot will engineer a sexually transmitted virus that renders the host sterile. The world would be overrun with fundamentalist prudes in a few generations. It's not something I think is happening. But it is something we pretty much have the technology to do right now, it would just require means and intent.
The idea that I might not be real... but am a line of data in a simulation. I don’t think that’s true.... but yeah.