In my post on the Marshenge on 16th October (see:
Alton Towers, Sir Francis Bacon and the Rosicrucians) I finished by stating:
"When I was a young boy, I well remember the excitement generated by the Americans landing on the Moon. Indeed, I recall looking up at the Moon one night and saying to my rocket engineer father how incredible it was to think that there were humans standing on the Moon at that same moment. Sadly, the exploration impetus that had taken mankind to the Moon fizzled out in the early 1970’s and the advent of near-Earth space stations and the American shuttle orbiter flights never really captured the imagination in the same way. If time permits, and World War III or cometary oblivion does not destroy us in the meantime, it would be wonderful to see Elon Musk succeed in sending the first manned mission to Mars. And if Musk’s first Martian explorers do make it, I hope they include an archaeologist among their ranks for they will have their work cut out for them."
Well it seems that with Donald Trump's presidential election win and Elon Musk's appointment to Trump's cabinet, Musk's Mars colonisation plans may be accelerated if the following article is correct:
How Elon Musk could take US to Mars sooner than expected
Story by Tom Bawden
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after president-elect Donald Trump appointed him to overhaul the way US government works, space scientists have said.
Musk said recently that he plans to launch five uncrewed Starships to Mars for the first time in just two years. And if those flights go well, he said the first human crews would follow four years from now – with both goals regarded as hugely ambitious.
Following that, he has predicted that in about 20 years, one million Earthlings will be living on Mars – a target widely regarded as considerably more ambitious still.
Irrespective of whether those deadlines are hit, Musk’s appointment to lead the department of government efficiency (DOGE) is likely to speed the progress towards those goals, experts have told
i.
Trump said DOGE “will pave the way for my administration to dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies”.
He added: “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, which is a lot of people.”
Among other things,
this role will give Musk a chance to stamp his mark on NASA, fundamentally changing the way it works and intensifying the focus on his – and Trump’s – Mars ambitions.
Professor Greg Autry of the University of Central Florida and Imperial College London told
i that Musk’s new role will allow him to “rework the culture” at NASA.
He said Musk has done a huge amount for space travel in general “and more for Mars specifically than anyone ever.”
“His presence will elevate space to a forefront position in the new Trump administration where the president is already a fan of bolder space initiatives,” added Professor Autry, who is also Vice President of Space Development at the National Space Society.
“Musk is highly disruptive and I would expect to see him push Trump toward a massive change in policy and personnel that will disturb most of the existing institutions. This will include
reworking the culture of NASA.”
What has Musk done for space travel so far?
Scientists say Musk has played a key role in the space industry, through SpaceX’s work on reusable rocket launchers, global internet provision and crewed launches to the International Space Station.
He has transformed the logistics and cost of shorter-duration, near-to-Earth orbit space travel with his fleet of reusable Falcon rockets.
Meanwhile, where Mars is concerned, NASA is collaborating with SpaceX over knowledge and technology to get astronauts to the red planet – building on the work he has already done on space travel more generally.
More recently, SpaceX employees have started working on designs for a Martian city, including dome habitats and spacesuits, and researching whether humans can procreate off Earth, according to
reports in The New York Times.
Space industry experts said that Musk’s influence over Trump could help advance his business interests, in particular his ambition to send the first crewed mission to Mars, aboard his SpaceX Starship, designed to shuttle the first humans to Mars.
“I think there will be change, and it will be disruptive. While change is not always good, I still see mostly positives,” Michelle Hanlon, executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Space Law, told
i.
“[Donald Trump] talked about commercial space in his acceptance speech. That has to be a first. And it signals a new focus on space activities. While for many other administrations space was just another part of the government to manage, here, space has been elevated already.”
And she welcome’s Musk’s appointment.
“I see another win for space activities and exploration. As yet it does not appear that Musk wants to run NASA and remake it in his image. I have no doubt that there is waste at NASA that can be trimmed, but the first priority is not “lets change the way we do space,” she said.
What problems could Musk face?
Musk’s role is also likely to see him clashing with regulators, such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration. He has railed against “excessive government regulation” arguing that it stifles innovation.
And he has repeatedly criticised anything that slows down the time taken to approve SpaceX rocket launches, such as investigations into their environmental impact and route planning to ensure a rocket can be safely launched into a designated airspace.
He is against rules that have blocked takeovers of tech start-ups and other companies by more established operators because of concerns about their impact on competition – again arguing that they stifle innovation.
Those kind of regulations look likely to be slashed under Musk, experts say.
John Crassidis, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Buffalo in New York – and a former NASA employee who still works with Nasa and the US Air Force – believes there is a desperate need to cut red tape.
“Elon Musk might be controversial but I can’t argue with the fact that he’s highly successful. And he sees the same stuff that I have seen, for sure. I see this as a positive,” he told
i.
“From my ground perspective, I think we can cut a lot of this red tape out. Take the whole contracting process, which can be streamlined. There’s just so much paper work you have to do.”
“Instead of them sending over a ton of stuff to sign within two days – and then a week later they sign us another one, again within two days, it’s just a whole months-long process to get the contract in place. Just solving that problem will save a lot of money,” he added.
What happens next?
There are still a lot of technical hurdles to overcome before can get to Mars – such as the sheer distance and incredibly high radiation levels – let alone live there. NASA doesn’t expect to land humans on Mars until the 2040s.
And when they arrive they will have to contend with icy temperatures, dust storms and air that is impossible to breath.
The moon, on the other hand, is much more achievable and Trump has said the moon was the first step toward his ultimate goal to reach Mars.
And, according to Dr Hanlon, for all his excitement about Mars, Musk is likely to share Trump’s enthusiasm for the moon.
“The concern has been raised to me that Musk will move us from the Moon to focus on Mars. I have no insight, but would be very surprised if the US walked away from Artemis [NASA’s ongoing moon mission]”, she said.
As things stand for the Artemis programme, NASA plans to launch four astronauts toward the moon using its Space Launch System and Orion spaceship.
In lunar orbit, the ship would meet up with SpaceX’s Starship, which would carry two astronauts to the moon’s surface, putting the first people on the moon since 1972.
And when they get there, this is another example of what they may find:
New images show 'by far the most detailed view of a Mars city to date’
Story by Josh Milton
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Need a new city break destination for your next holiday? Mars could be your answer.
Yes, really. A truthseeker claimed this week to have discovered the ‘clearest example yet’ of a Martian city.
‘This is by far the most detailed view of a Mars city to date,’ Joe White, who runs
ArtAlien.TV, said of the 4km wide city buried under 50ft of sand.
‘Many of the smaller buildings are buried in sand but larger ruins can be seen.’
‘Raised roads, walls and T junctions all over it. Structures inside walled compounds,’ he added, pointing to high-quality images of crisscrossing dunes.
Images of this grid-like pattern of pin-straight ridges and right angles were posted on
GIGAmacro, a database of photographs composed of at least one billion pixels.
White attributed the discovery to Greg Orme, an Australian professor who has long combed the King’s Valley of
Libya Montes at the Martian equator for signs of ‘
artificiality’.
The Libya Montes is a highland area that includes a
face-like formation that’s sometimes called ‘crowned face’. (Though,
experts say this might just be an example of how we often see ‘faces’ in ordinary objects.) [
MJF: If it looks like a face that is probably because it is a face. If you were to show these same experts satellite photographs of Mt Rushmore, they would probably say the same.]
The Libya Montes ‘face’
Across the region, White pinpointed various grooves, bulges and shapes that he says appear to be roads and other types of infrastructure.
White speculates the rounder, egg-like formations in the images may have once contained water for irrigation, when water is precisely sprayed to help crops grow.
NASA has spent decades trying to figure out if there is – or was – life on Mars. Space officials have described some of the stranger-looking formations on the planet as ‘polygons’, as White notes of the King’s Valley.
‘There is even a 90ft bridge centre right. The elevated roads are four to five metres wide and over 60ft high on the east side of the city,’ he continued.
‘One of the roads even goes up the Kodiak mountain near the centre of the city. Some seem to go through it, suggesting a tunnel.
‘Elon Musk will have a bit of a surprise when he gets there.’
Musk, the billionaire owner of X and the rocket company SpaceX, has long said he wants to help bring millions to Mars to build a self-sustaining civilization.
No one, however, has ever set foot on the planet [
MJF: Hmmm ... really?]. NASA doesn’t expect an astronaut’s boot to land on the red planet until the 2040s, and that would be after a nine-month voyage.
And
it would take a fair bit of time to colonise Mars, a planet covered by barren terrain, toxic soil, freezing temperatures, dust storms that blot out the sun for weeks and air that is impossible to breathe.
And cost a lot too. Even shooting an Apple up to Mars
would cost hundreds of pounds.
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Please note that I have been studying photographic evidence like this from Mars for years. What I can tell you is that this is no isolated example of a former Atlantean city on Mars. Indeed, Richard Hoagland estimated that the city complex at Cydonia, where the famous Face on Mars is located, was as large as modern day Los Angeles. Today these Martian cities are buried under deep layers of ice and sand. They could be at least 50,000 years old. However, they appear to have been destroyed in a planet wide cataclysm that could have been caused by multiple close encounters with both Venus and Earth:
Session 30 September 1994:
Q: (L) Was Noah's flood caused by the close passage of another celestial body?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Which body was that?
A: Martek.
Q: (L) Do we know this body in our solar system now?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) What name?
A: Mars.
Q: (L) Was Martek an inhabited planet at that time?
A: No.
Q: (L) Did it have water or other features?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) When it passed close to the earth did it, in fact, overload our planet with water we did not have prior to that time?
A: Yes.
And
Session 5 October 1994:
Q: (L) If Venus was one of the cataclysms and the cluster of comets was another, what was the third?
A: Mars.
Q: (L) Was Mars knocked out of its orbit by Venus?
A: Yes.
[...]
Q: (L) What caused Martek to pass close to the earth at that time since that was many thousands of years before the Venus interaction?
A: Planetary alignment gravitational aberration related to Venus.
Q: (L) So, there was a planetary line-up that caused Mars to be pulled out of its orbit?
A: Yes.
And:
Session 25 February 2023:
(seek10) The C's mentioned that Hindu god Rama was a high priest influenced by the Confederation. What is his time period?
A: 50k years ago
Q: (seek10) What is the evil he fought against?
A: Lizards.
[...]
(seek10) The C's said that 50k years back, there was a war between Kantekkians and the Paranthas. Does the Rama play into that picture? Was it before or after the war?
A: After.
Q: (Ursus Minor) When did the Atlanteans start building pyramids on Mars?
A: Also about 50k years ago.
So, it seems Mars was no longer inhabited at the time of Noah's Flood (which the C's said took place in 10,662 BC) perhaps because the human settlers there had already been overwhelmed by an earlier close passage with the planet Venus that knocked Mars out of its orbit. The other possibility is that Mars had become uninhabitable after a nuclear had been fought out between the
Kantekkians and the Paranthas (both being Atlantean races), as alluded to by former NASA scientist John E. Brandenburg in his book Death on Mars. For those who like scientific proof of these things, I attach a pdf link to Brandenburg's paper on his Mars nuclear war hypothesis:
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/eposter/2660.pdf
But when, if ever, Musk's intrepid colonists finally make it to Mars, they had better look out:
Session 7 October 1994:
Q: (L) Who built them?
A: Who else? The Lizzies
And:
Session 23 November 1996:
Q: (T) Is the book Courtney Brown wrote, "Cosmic Voyage," concerning the Martian population...
A: It is true that there are underground bases on Mars, but they are Orion STS. 
