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Re:Mars Exploration: How the CIA's Project Stargate Went to ... by keepamovin on Thursday January 16, 2025 @04:34AM (#42723273)
Hahaha! Omg, this comment above is the unhinged fantasy version, a surprisingly common misrepresentation. Impressive how you condensed so much misinformation into only a couple of sentences - I guess you had to try. Do you often foreclose your curiosity with invented fantasies?

It was not a "CIA project" - it was a US Army unit; the name "STAR GATE" is merely the final public program name for a bunch of related programs; collectively, their intelligence missions served government customers including the special forces, CIA, NSA, DIA, NRO, etc.

- They didn't "declassify everything", there's lots of redactions and more documents;

- it wasn't "scrapped after not showing anything despite some participants claiming it did", RV has a very high success rate (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584264), and Stargate became an unacknowledged program - these are facts despite some unhinged internet commenters seemingly having an issue with it; and

- "reading it in chronological order" - you don't see disillusion or non-reproducible results, you see 25 years in a row of renewed funding on the back of quality intelligence product continued being ordered by government customers.

I wonder, with all the ways you went wrong, did you have to try very hard to make that up?

It also didn't "explore parasciences: telepathy, twin telepathy" as if that was the main thing - Stargate mostly researched, developed and practiced remote viewing. Which you can try too, which probably would be a good idea, so maybe you come up with more accurate stuff than you did here. Head to https://reddit.com/r/remoteviewing/ and learn something before you talk next time. Good idea, right? Hahaha!

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