Google invited me to “Take A Tour Aboard The International Space Station,” today. It was a virtual tour of course. If you are a man, chances are you had an interest in rockets sometime or another. Perhaps you still do. Perhaps you would like this tour as well.
I took the tour as far as the part of the Station where they keep the sharpie pens. I noticed that one of the pens was missing a lid. I have that problem here on Earth. I have trouble finding where they roll. I can’t imagine the hassle of those caps floating away. You would think that NASA would go with a retractable pen.
Near where they keep the sharpies they keep the mechanical pencils. I noticed some wear on one of the erasers. Apparently, some mistakes have been made up there. I think it a mistake to not seek out a system that would improve upon the pencil eraser for making errors disappear.
Nearby is where the Epson Printer is stowed. It looks very much like the one sitting next to me as I type. The paper feeder looks the same. I wonder how they keep the paper straight in zero gravity.
I saw a toothbrush on my tour. No sign of floss.
The people that fake the International Space Station no doubt laugh out loud at men that are still too full of themselves to admit that they have been had. These people also get off on those who see the obvious fraud, not being able to do much about it.
Men have long relied on NASA as being the brand to trust on speculation of anything in outer space. Many men filter out any speculation that NASA is not telling the truth, with the prejudicial stereotype of anyone, who says otherwise, is one of those sad people who don’t believe in the moon landing deal.
The Good Men Project is big on discussing the danger of stereotyping what a good man is and is not. In this case, we have the stereotype of “Rocket Scientist,” vs. the stereotype of “Landing On The Moon Denier.” The first one is often judged to be about as good as a man can get. The other is often judged as being as dumb as a moon rock.
NASA uses these stereotypes to work on their deceptions. At NASA news conferences you can notice how questions are often met with scientific jargon-filled bafflegab. If I could reach someone at NASA to ask where that sharpie cap went, I would probably get a very scientific sounding answer. Follow-up questions are often not entertained.
Lower down the mock chain is the stereotype of the “Flat Earth Society Member.” Most men count on knowing that the Earth is like a big ball spinning very fast, as much as they count on knowing their name. For them any questioning as to gravity sucking to keep sharpie caps from spinning off the Earth ball is ridiculous. They believe that NASA images of a ball-shaped home have cleared up any doubt that there ever was that it may be otherwise.
The problem with stereotypes is that seeing a source of questioning to be either all right or all wrong, leaves evidence not considered with a open mind.
It is hard to believe most of what most college-educated men think they know as scientific fact, are in fact, lies, told by men claiming to be scientists and scientists that have been threatened to not tell it as they see it.
So what motive would NASA have to lie to us? We could start with the diversion of billions of dollars of taxpayer money minus the cost of toothbrushes.
I have no proof that sharpie pens aren’t the way to go into space or that a print out of a document is a good thing to have while orbiting the Earth. My main source of fact checking is common sense.
Warning if you are a man that believes in NASA it may blow your mind to know that official NASA spokespeople should not be believed about anything, because if you can’t trust NASA who else can’t you trust.
Doing things like taking a virtual tour of the Space Station for many men is a break from thinking about troubles here on this planet and represents hope in escaping what men have done to foul its atmosphere, its surface and beneath. They may think if NASA can’t hatch an escape plan for humanity maybe Space X can, but I don’t believe so. Believing anything I am asserting here could wreck your feel good.
For me it feels good now every time I discover something, that I have come to believe is nonsense. I realize there is much, much more nonsensical stuff I still believe in because there are only so many hours in a day to notice the obvious falsehoods. Furthermore, I am no rocket scientist.
I think the Good Men Project is doing a very important thing in raising awareness of the harm done by ruling out facts do to the stereotype that is telling them. Because of this work you might take it from me, some random moon rock kind of guy, that NASA is lying to you.
I have no suggestion as what you can do about NASA once you know, other than the general tip of doing some review of your current spiritual beliefs. Much of modern culture has reduced contemplation of the heavens and the depths too, “what might science tell us next?” I believe there is immense value in broadening that view, particularly since NASA cannot be trusted.