My connection is that humans were developed out of Earth conditions and Mars differs with radiation and other qualities in ways that cannot be denied as quite different and its potential dangers cannot be properly faced from the meager knowledge we now possess to determine if Earth life can manage there.

Since the weapons of mass destruction are well established amongst military psychopaths as a useful tactic, your persuasion is somewhat out of date. That being a pacifist is indicated as unacceptable strikes me as most peculiar. Somehow the enthusiasm for killing people never attracted me.

That a full knowledge of one's superiority should be kept secret is a rather amusing and not very useful tactic,

Very interesting, I have followed Counterpunch for a long time and verified the majority of their output as extremely valid. Your judgement that is worthless is an excellent verification of your level of judgement. Thanks for being so revealing.

Everybody is reasonably self satisfied as to his or her point of view is the way it is. As Korzybski nicely indicated, is is a rather elusive indication. The massive failures of the military culture in establishing any world security is a rather strong hint one should be quite uneasy as to its suggested alternatives.

The radiation on Mars is much more intense than on Earth since there is no protective atmospheric shield. Perhaps that reality might encourage a good deal more investment in reversing the approaching disasters in global warming and nuclear war. The alternative energy source of nuclear power is examined at https://www.counterpunch.org/2... and it is not encouraging.

Human nature, so called, is heading most life on the planet, in a decade or two to a most curious WWIII and the end of civilization in in radioactive death or perhaps, as a happy alternative, massive global destruction of the planets destruction of life through global overheating, where no military superiorities will be of any use at all. Be careful where you place your trust.

The expressed official fear that the huge superiority of USA new developments in aviation capabilities revealed is a threat to military security is the most cockeyed example of an excuse I have ever encountered. As long as the technology of these vast accomplishments is not revealed, the fact that US naval aviation has such huge superiority should be widely disseminated to ensure that no foreign power would dare to attack the USA in fear of instant frightful reprisal. In effect, keeping these superpowers a secret is a strange admission that the USA does not have them and they confirm that there is a high likelihood that their origin is unknown.

In a country whose outstanding claim that it is driven by being a government by and for the people, this announcement seems overwhelmingly a huge distrust and fear that the people are not capable of ruling themselves, since power is only sensibly possible with full information. The failures of the military in Vietnam, in the Middle East and many other places is undeniable, even though more money is devoted in the USA to the military than the combined countries of the rest of the world. It cannot be denied that something very fundamental is very wrong. It is a very odd open admission of fear and failure.

I am curious as to your expectations, What kind of wisdom are you seeking?

Human knowledge is a matrix of patterns which we explore with our metaphoric relationships that underlie possibilities but this understanding is continuously confronted with strange mismatches which we must somehow utilize to rectify our misunderstandings. Einstein's view that imagination is our most powerful tool but each of us has lived a specific life and thus our individual imaginations vary in ways that may aid or obstruct our explorations into the vast unknown that contains what we can perceive of what we presume is reality. I have no special insight on what may be usable and what is pure nonsense. But I have the general feeling that alien interstellar life is probably extremely difficult to intelligently understand.

To approach the speed of light with our spacecraft is, by my suppositions, a rather distant accomplishment with our best current technology and this is the area of velocities probably necessary for reasonable interstellar travel. Of course, when I was a kid back in 1935, visiting even the Moon seemed to be a matter of centuries away so reality can be surprising. The latest news indicates that AI may put us in touch with our dogs and cats linguistically but probably octopuses may require a bit more perception. Something alive on a planet that may have nurtured communication possibilities using totally novel sets of senses and unknown physics may be something else altogether. That may be a Pandora box better not opened.

It gives me no pleasure to envision the time you awaken to the oncoming radical changes that are beginning to become more and more evident. I often wonder what the dinosaurs gossiped about when their astronomers suggested in their newspapers that problems were arising.

It is always delightful to gain knowledge about the various star systems and their accompanying planets but the life we are familiar with so far is exceedingly related in form and complexities to the available systems on this planet alone. To presume that the intellectual matrix of awareness and living motivations are exclusive to our local systems seems to me an unnecessary limitation on possibilities. And the speculations here on actually traveling to these planets, considering how primitive our technology is presently for extraterrestrial travel and habitation is, remains in the area of rather inferior comic books.

I must add to this my astonishment at the immense inability to accept the bulk of reliable scientific understanding that this planet is energetically being driven towards inimical and horrifying natural forces that are totally disastrous to planetary life. As with the most vicious propaganda efforts of the tobacco industry to declare tobacco addiction innocent of harm, the criminal efforts of economic forces to deny the rapidly approaching natural forces will soon make this planet extremely difficult for life to survive is already quite evident in the huge die off of large numbers of living species and the floods in Pakistan and the dearth of water supplies throughout the world for producing enough food. It verges on very dark comedy that this denial has succeeded in hiding the obvious.