A Mars Odyssey

Space news and scientific breakthroughs are filling the Internet and news with new ideas, research, and theories until most of us do not know what to believe anymore. And half the stuff we do not even understand with the technical jargon. So where does this leave the average person in the face of changing times, space commercialization, and possible Mars colonization?

… unless we keep up on a daily basis, halfway understanding the fine prints and the most recent work in flooded fields of congested media….it leaves us absolutely nowhere. It would be like the wise man who says, “ If a person does not know how to spell apple, or where to find it, or what it is—why would he even bother to look it up or be able to?”

It seems as if something has gone haywire in space science, astronomy, science, and related fields. Things we have believed in and have spent so much time and money trying to prove it out, disappear in today’s observational facts while a new theory or hypothesis takes its place. Non-conforming individuals, who challenge these theories with a new hypothesis or a slight change in one, are rejected because they “don’t fit in as they challenge the establishment” which leads to more complex issues and divided camps among top notch professionals.

It is said that popularity does not mean something has been validated. But what it does mean is that researchers and scientists who challenge that which has already been validated, are not popular individuals to established organizations–many are labeled as cranks, unprofessional scientists, or crackpot researchers by the more orthodox professional individuals. Several years ago scientists wrote paper after paper, did research after research, over the latest information regarding the similarity between Mars, Earth, and Venus. Papers that were written about it, refused to challenge this “latest find.” This year, it has been found with more research and the latest technology that Mars is not similar to Earth at all, as stated in a previous article A Mars Odyssey. So what do we believe? Do we believe what is in front of us only today, as it will be different tomorrow?

Probably the worst thing a person can do is believe everything in front of them, allowing other people to do their thinking for them. Things are put in our mind for a reason, and we need to act on it. I seriously doubt if Albert Einstein came up with his famous theories by doing what someone told him to do, or believing what other people’s opinions were. By conforming to the majority of society, we are doing ourselves an injustice—with the strong-willed politically correct individuals running the show and our minds. Too many changes are going on today in space, our environment, and the universe. Read, research, read, think, and read—learn to recognize the truth by using common sense.