starman2003 wrote:But there's ample evidence of parallel alien-government policy. As the aforementioned work notes, it's very important to the long-term plan that an association be hidden. Ergo, it's targeted by a plethora of disinformation.
Sorry but I doubt US government has contact to aliens they are not so powerfull and important for intergalactic race
The hippie movement was just a blip, over 50 years ago. Of course, it can be argued that the movement was just the basic notion of liberty carried to an extreme. The seeds of it were sown with the declaration of independence.
A bit fun needs the youth or it will rebell
The aforementioned work opines that our history has been preplanned by ET and the outcome will be earth-alien unity, ensuring perpetual peace.
What if they are not so peacfull what when they need human sacrifice like Aztecs and Many Polytheist Religions in Europe???
Si vis pacem para bellum
Unless you want inmates to freeze/starve to death over there, the cost of maintaining them would dwarf current costs here.
They need a nuclear reactor and they can grow plants like in vertical farming.
But Mars was already uninhabitable by the end of Noachian time. Venus fared little better as it was too close to the sun. In any event, an older civilization would probably require an older planetary system..
They can easely Terraform the planet to fullfill their requirements