WEBVTT 00:16.820 --> 00:24.220 I look up at the night sky probably every single night and I wonder all the time what 00:24.220 --> 00:31.840 we're not being told about space. And it fell down this rabbit hole and it's just a little aside, 00:31.840 --> 00:37.800 but I thought you should see this. Radio listeners on October 4th 1957 may have 00:37.800 --> 00:44.280 heard a series of beeps coming over their radios. As that's the day history generally 00:44.280 --> 00:47.580 acknowledges that the Soviets launched Sputnik. 00:50.680 --> 00:58.860 On October 4th 1957, while the Americans were still finalizing their plans, Sputnik was launched. 01:01.640 --> 01:08.760 Which I think is pronounced Sputnik, but I'm going to pronounce it Sputnik because Sputnik sounds 01:08.760 --> 01:14.680 ridiculous. Sorry, I'm not going to do it. 01:32.560 --> 01:38.540 Sputnik was the first man made satellite 01:38.760 --> 01:46.360 put into orbit, which beat out the US Vanguard satellites and officially touched off the Cold 01:46.360 --> 01:52.740 War space race. In fact, just a month afterwards, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on the front 01:52.740 --> 01:59.300 page of US papers challenging the US to a competition of space Sputniks. Which just 01:59.300 --> 02:04.540 sounds lame. I mean you should just go with space race. Competition of space Sputniks just sounds 02:05.240 --> 02:14.160 silly. Sputnik is the single event that is credited with the entire reason why President 02:14.160 --> 02:22.360 Eisenhower created ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency on February 7th 1958, which would 02:22.360 --> 02:27.680 eventually be changed to DARPA, but also the creation of NASA, which was made official with 02:27.680 --> 02:33.980 the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, which was passed and signed into law that July. 02:34.540 --> 02:41.120 And then a few months later in September 1958, the National Defense Education Act was passed as well 02:41.660 --> 02:49.040 again in response to the launch of Sputnik. And on the official senate website for the NDEA, 02:49.120 --> 02:52.820 it actually says there had been strong resistance to federal aid to education, 02:53.220 --> 02:58.520 but as public opinion demanded government action in the wake of Sputnik, blah blah blah 02:58.520 --> 03:04.960 had to shove this through. The launching of Sputnik is so central that it's credited not only 03:04.960 --> 03:11.340 with changing the entire course of the Cold War, but with the official start of the space age. 03:13.900 --> 03:18.000 Already many plans are being advanced for the coming age of man in space. 03:18.740 --> 03:24.240 And the other part of that story that's gone down in history is this idea that Americans 03:24.240 --> 03:31.660 were just so hysterical and terrified that the Soviets launched a satellite into space 03:32.560 --> 03:40.880 that is now in the 21st century been referred to as the 9-11 of its time. Sputnik was the 9-11 03:40.880 --> 03:46.800 of our day. People were shocked that Russia had a technology that could do this and we didn't. 03:47.240 --> 03:59.610 It's in the sky, a 23 inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a Russian rocket. Here 03:59.610 --> 04:03.630 an artist's conception of how the feat was accomplished. Former chief historian of NASA 04:03.630 --> 04:09.630 Roger Launius wrote, quote, Sputnik night as four five October has come to be called, 04:10.290 --> 04:15.450 reverberated through the American public in the days that followed. Two generations after the 04:15.450 --> 04:20.790 event, words do not easily convey the American reaction to the Soviet satellite. The only 04:20.790 --> 04:25.850 appropriate characterization that begins to capture the mood on five October involves the 04:25.850 --> 04:40.740 use of the word hysteria. A collective mental turmoil and soul searching followed. 04:41.280 --> 04:45.920 And that's the way he's writing about it. It's very, very dramatic. It sounds like everyone was 04:45.920 --> 04:52.180 freaking out and they even have a term for this. They call it the Sputnik crisis and Wikipedia 04:52.180 --> 04:58.340 has an entry on it, which defines it as quote, a period of public fear and anxiety in western 04:58.340 --> 05:02.920 nations about the perceived technological gap between the United States and Soviet Union 05:02.920 --> 05:12.610 caused by the Soviets launch of Sputnik one. And they also mentioned on there 05:13.340 --> 05:17.350 that there was a crisis reaction in the newspapers with outlets like the New York 05:17.350 --> 05:27.450 Times mentioning Sputnik in 279 different articles between October 6, 1957 and October 31, 1957. 05:28.230 --> 05:33.930 In fact, on October 6, the New York Times quoted an unnamed naval scientist who claimed 05:33.930 --> 05:38.210 the very fact that the satellite is whizzing around the earth would indicate that the Russians 05:38.210 --> 05:43.250 are ahead in rocketry. It means that the Russians must have the intercontinental ballistic missile. 05:43.770 --> 05:48.050 And on the following day, the New York Times suggested that the Soviet Union would soon 05:48.050 --> 05:52.030 have enough missiles to place every major United States city in base under threat of 05:52.030 --> 05:57.090 annihilation. So that's the tack they were taking with this. And the story that gets 05:57.090 --> 06:02.650 told now is about how Americans were suddenly faced with the fact that America wasn't the 06:02.650 --> 06:07.010 supreme scientific nation on earth and people were just so disheartened by that. 06:07.230 --> 06:11.670 What about the vital question that everybody is thinking about? Why and how did the Russians 06:11.670 --> 06:17.330 beat us to the drill? And also extremely fearful that Soviet sending up Sputnik would 06:17.330 --> 06:22.430 be a means to eventually allowing them to nuke America from space and that people were 06:22.430 --> 06:30.430 generally just beside themselves with anxiety over this. But what I found was not at all 06:30.430 --> 06:36.030 like how that's portrayed. I found articles about how the Pentagon was worried sick and 06:36.030 --> 06:43.290 Congress was fighting over it because there was an election coming up. I found Speaker of the House 06:43.290 --> 06:49.090 John McCormick quoted as saying the United States faces national extinction if they don't 06:49.090 --> 06:54.750 respond quickly. Here's a quote from him. It cannot be overemphasized that the survival 06:54.750 --> 06:58.950 of the free world indeed all of the world is caught up in the stakes. 06:59.230 --> 07:04.730 I tell you gentlemen science has agreed that unless something is done and done quickly 07:05.310 --> 07:10.510 man as the dominant species of life on earth would be extinct within a year. 07:12.090 --> 07:16.710 Which is interesting because buried in the middle of the Edmonton Journal I also found 07:16.710 --> 07:24.350 an article about US Senator Homer Capehart who apparently went over there and evaluated their 07:24.350 --> 07:30.050 scientific and industrial progress and said he wasn't very impressed because what he describes 07:30.050 --> 07:37.110 as going on is a lot of propaganda that sounds vaguely North Korea-esque. He was there for two 07:37.110 --> 07:42.570 and a half weeks and he said leading stores for example which are all owned by the government 07:42.570 --> 07:48.230 conducting these lavish fashion shows where they have visitors from Asia in the Middle East and 07:48.230 --> 07:55.590 have models strutting around in these gowns to orchestra music but at the end of the show if you 07:55.590 --> 08:01.570 go ask about these dresses the store tells you they don't have any of these things on hand. 08:01.870 --> 08:07.610 All they have are patterns which you could use to make it yourself if you can find material 08:07.610 --> 08:12.710 anywhere with which to do that. He says there's also an industrial exhibit spread over several acres 08:12.710 --> 08:19.230 of land which has the very latest design machine tools and farm equipment and stuff like that in these 08:19.230 --> 08:25.370 well-architectured ornate buildings but he didn't see any of that equipment in the hands of the 08:25.370 --> 08:31.670 people anywhere. So it all to him appeared to be much like a show or a Potemkin village. 08:32.050 --> 08:35.570 And he says I'm not trying to minimize their scientific achievement or anything 08:36.310 --> 08:41.110 but it's just there's something here that's not adding up is basically what you get out of 08:41.110 --> 08:47.890 this article. A lot of what I found comes off as propaganda about fear that people should be having 08:48.630 --> 08:54.890 more than reporting on actual public concern or anxieties itself like this article that was created 08:54.890 --> 09:00.350 at the request of the united press and then syndicated for like a month in newspapers all 09:00.350 --> 09:06.630 over the country written by the very reverend James Pike about how more fear would be good 09:06.630 --> 09:13.710 for the US and how he's afraid Americans aren't afraid enough about Sputnik which can be seen in 09:13.710 --> 09:20.030 his view as God's judgment on Americans for resisting which should be seen as God's judgment 09:20.030 --> 09:27.970 on Americans for resisting taxation for scientific advancement. Problem reaction solution. I also 09:27.970 --> 09:33.470 found an article where you have psychologists saying that Americans are nervous and they should 09:33.470 --> 09:38.870 blame Sputnik but as soon as the government launches one of our own satellites that anxiety will disappear 09:39.390 --> 09:45.250 which which again just sounds like more defense propaganda. Oh and I did find one radio station 09:45.250 --> 09:50.790 that actually went directly from reporting on Sputnik to just playing Orson Welles' War of 09:50.790 --> 09:56.510 the Worlds from 1938 without any introduction. Yes I guess that's the thing directly in front of 09:56.510 --> 10:02.730 me half buried in a vast pit must have stuck with terrific force the ground is covered with 10:02.730 --> 10:08.050 sprinters of a tree it must have stuck on its way down but I can see if the object itself doesn't 10:08.050 --> 10:13.790 look very much like a meteor least not the meteors I've seen it looks more like a huge cylinder. 10:14.550 --> 10:19.710 Prompting like 60 phone calls from listeners concerned that Sputnik despite being about 10:19.710 --> 10:25.730 the size of a beach ball was somehow able to land hostile Russians in North America. 10:26.510 --> 10:33.430 Far outweighing articles on fears and anxiety I found articles about people eating Sputnik burgers 10:33.430 --> 10:41.830 and Sputnik Sundays and getting Sputnik hairdos which are pretty awful really especially this one 10:42.300 --> 10:48.270 and this one and having Sputnik cocktails lots of bars coming up with a Sputnik cocktail. 10:48.610 --> 10:52.470 There are stories about kids naming their class Goldfish Sputnik. 10:53.130 --> 10:59.150 There was an article about how people were a lot more upset about the economy than they were concerned 10:59.150 --> 11:06.150 about Sputnik. There's even several articles about how the AP sent its reporters to two different 11:06.150 --> 11:10.190 average cities one in the north and one in the south to kind of sample public opinion 11:10.790 --> 11:16.250 and they found that average Americans appear unconcerned with Wisconsinites refusing 11:16.250 --> 11:22.150 to admit that the US was lagging behind Russia and their response to bringing Sputnik up was 11:22.150 --> 11:28.750 to make jokes about it as the people quote show little sign of deep concern and then you had people 11:28.750 --> 11:33.690 from Gatlinburg Tennessee noting that America's satellites will be twice as big when they get 11:33.690 --> 11:39.310 theirs out with the AP reporter concluding when the average man in the south speaks about the 11:39.310 --> 11:44.790 Russian satellites at all today and you don't hear much talk of them he is more likely to joke 11:44.790 --> 11:50.450 than to express anxiety or outright fear. How do you feel about it? Well I just think they beat 11:50.450 --> 11:55.510 us to the punch we've been talking about it working on it but nothing's happened. I mean one article I 11:55.510 --> 12:01.150 found in the spokesman review even straight up calls for psychological warfare experts to come 12:01.150 --> 12:07.190 up with a new name to stir the pride of Americans out of concern that the word Sputnik had so 12:07.190 --> 12:12.930 penetrated the American consciousness that the nation might start referring to American 12:12.930 --> 12:18.550 satellites as Sputniks too which would be very bad so we needed a new word and psychological 12:18.550 --> 12:23.470 warfare experts need to figure out what will make us feel more prideful so we don't call 12:23.470 --> 12:29.450 our satellite Sputniks because everyone liked that word. I mean how does this match up with 12:30.070 --> 12:36.390 a collective mental turmoil with soul searching? We may be witnesses to a bignical prophecy 12:36.390 --> 12:42.530 come true and there should be destruction and darkness come up in creation and the beasts 12:42.530 --> 12:48.410 shall reign over the earth. The only appropriate characterization that begins to capture the mood 12:48.410 --> 12:57.650 of 5 October involves use of the word hysteria like... Do you think it'll mean we'll get to the moon 12:57.650 --> 13:06.170 soon? I hope so I might go up there. Where's the evidence of any of this hysteria? Interestingly I did 13:06.170 --> 13:11.690 find a top level scientific report by the American Rocket Society whose president just so happened to 13:11.690 --> 13:16.350 be a commander in the US Navy at the time was already proposing a federal space flight program 13:16.350 --> 13:22.330 to the moon within 20 years which is a report that just so happened to come out two days before 13:22.330 --> 13:28.750 Sputnik was launched. But here's the real kicker what if I told you the American scientific 13:28.750 --> 13:33.570 community and thus the defense community because that was all kind of one thing in the Cold War 13:34.130 --> 13:40.730 knew about Sputnik for at least two years before it was actually launched because yeah 13:40.730 --> 13:49.330 they did. So here's this memo and it's a proposed news release from the National Academy of Sciences 13:49.330 --> 13:57.030 dated June 1957 which it says not for release except by specific authority of the National 13:57.030 --> 14:01.670 Academy of Sciences so I'm guessing they didn't actually release this one because if you read 14:01.670 --> 14:09.030 this what it tells you is they knew this was going to happen since 1955 because it was all 14:09.030 --> 14:16.450 part of a plan that everyone knew about. So you have a statement here from Dr. Delav Bronk who just 14:16.450 --> 14:20.230 by the way was concurrently president of the Rockefeller University at the same time he was 14:20.230 --> 14:25.950 president of the National Academy of Sciences and he's just casually mentioning here they have 14:25.950 --> 14:32.010 now learned of detailed Soviet plans for the launching of an artificial earth satellite and 14:32.010 --> 14:36.410 not just for no reason or because they decided to suddenly it's actually part of the scientific 14:36.410 --> 14:42.330 program for the international geophysical year which is what 1957 to 58 was. 14:43.010 --> 14:48.070 July 1st marks the beginning of one of the great scientific adventures of our time 14:48.760 --> 14:54.990 the international geophysical year during this period which will actually be 18 months long 14:55.700 --> 15:00.830 the scientists of the United States will join their efforts with those of the scientists of 15:00.830 --> 15:08.290 some 60 other nations to make the most intensive study ever undertaken of our planet and that this 15:08.290 --> 15:14.610 was formally announced to them back in 1956. It says here an announcement to that effect was 15:14.610 --> 15:19.810 made last September by Soviet representatives at a meeting of the international committee that 15:19.810 --> 15:25.070 guides the overall planning for the IGY and then it says earlier references to such a program 15:25.070 --> 15:30.390 were made in general terms by Soviet scientists in the summer of 1955 shortly after the formal 15:30.390 --> 15:36.510 announcement of the United States scientific earth satellite program was made July 29th 1955 to the 15:36.510 --> 15:41.830 international IGY committee. We welcome the release of further details on the Soviet plans at this 15:41.830 --> 15:47.090 time both the United States and the Soviet announcements followed the recommendation of the 15:47.090 --> 15:52.730 international IGY committee that each participating nation consider whether it could undertake 15:52.730 --> 15:56.490 such a program. The committee based its recommendation on its conclusion that 15:56.490 --> 16:00.450 measurements of great significance to science and great potential benefits to humanity could be 16:00.450 --> 16:05.710 obtained with satellites. The secretary of defense announced this morning that the army is to 16:05.710 --> 16:12.670 participate in the international geophysical year satellite program. So they were told to do it 16:12.670 --> 16:20.250 the Soviets were told to do it by the committee for the IGY and it was well known and then 16:20.250 --> 16:25.670 their detailed plans to do so were given up to the national academy of sciences who all 16:25.670 --> 16:33.370 knew about this and they proposed a news release about it in June of 1957 months before it was 16:33.370 --> 16:39.350 actually launched. The most important result of the international geophysical year is the 16:39.350 --> 16:45.530 demonstration of the ability of people of all nations to work together harmoniously for the 16:45.530 --> 16:52.350 common good. And you know what's missing from this memo? Shock, confusion, anxiety, fear, 16:53.350 --> 16:58.770 hysteria. There's none of that. It's it's mentioned by Dr. Bronk really rather matter of fact 16:58.770 --> 17:03.710 and just kind of blah. It's just known for years in advance. It's going to be cool for science. 17:04.030 --> 17:08.170 Everyone's going to be sharing data and information with each other. Not a big deal 17:08.170 --> 17:12.510 because the Soviets in the United States were part of the international geophysical year and 17:12.510 --> 17:16.990 that was something the committee of that institution planned for them to undertake 17:16.990 --> 17:21.490 and ask them if they would do it. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been assigned the 17:21.490 --> 17:28.410 responsibility by the U.S. National Committee of the IGY and by the Army to complete the design 17:28.410 --> 17:34.930 and construction of these experiments in a suitable form for the Army rocket. The week that Sputnik 17:34.930 --> 17:40.310 was launched actually coincided with a six-day conference for the international geophysical 17:40.310 --> 17:45.790 year at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington that was specifically on rocket and 17:45.790 --> 17:51.530 satellite research for the IGY that included scientists from the United States, the Soviet Union 17:51.530 --> 17:58.130 and five other nations on their plans to share data and findings from their research on this topic. 17:58.470 --> 18:02.730 Following the announcement by the Secretary of Defense, numerous planning conferences were held 18:02.730 --> 18:08.970 in Washington DC, Huntsville, Alabama and Pasadena, California. So this was all super known, 18:08.970 --> 18:13.150 very much known, not even remotely a little bit of a surprise. 18:19.090 --> 18:25.670 So there you go, okay? Because the story that's gone down claims the whole reason that 18:25.670 --> 18:31.510 NASA suddenly had to exist and DARPA suddenly had to exist and a very unpopular national 18:31.510 --> 18:36.570 defense education program was suddenly pushed through is because the American people were 18:36.570 --> 18:41.730 just so hysterical and so afraid they practically demanded it. They were at Capitol Hill just 18:41.730 --> 18:47.370 banging down the door, begging them to institute these agencies, just demanding it. 18:50.690 --> 18:55.950 And yet there's really just no evidence. There's no evidence this was a scary surprise or even 18:55.950 --> 19:03.210 much of a surprise at all apparently to a lot of people it would appear. So why is that the 19:03.210 --> 19:08.490 story that's gone down? Because people actually seemed pretty excited about Sputnik in a lot 19:08.490 --> 19:14.190 of ways. I mean they were fixing their hair in Sputnik hairdos. Wow! Is that what you do when 19:14.190 --> 19:21.250 you're terrified? It just, the Sputnik crisis appears created, it appears made up, it appears 19:21.250 --> 19:28.150 completely fake. But you have NASA historian Launius over here claiming quote, the launch of Sputnik 19:28.150 --> 19:34.290 1 had a Pearl Harbor effect on American public opinion. It was a shock introducing the average 19:34.290 --> 19:44.490 citizen to the space age in a crisis setting. That smells like bullshit. Why did they have to 19:44.490 --> 19:50.630 introduce the average citizen to the space age in a crisis setting? And that's that's the whole 19:50.630 --> 19:58.450 relationship now that is the history of people to space. I just can't seem to locate any evidence 19:58.450 --> 20:04.370 to support that people were actually hysterical. And apparently neither can Kim McQuade who published 20:04.370 --> 20:09.990 an article called Sputnik Reconsidered Image and Reality in the Early Space Age in the winter 2007 20:09.990 --> 20:16.510 edition of Canadian Review of American Studies who found quote, chroniclers regularly affirm that 20:16.510 --> 20:21.810 Russia's Sputniks produced popular crisis. More nuanced explanations argue that a preliminary 20:21.810 --> 20:27.010 media riot made cosmic space races an essential counterpart of earthly missile races in the 20:27.010 --> 20:32.110 public mind. Widespread public interest and political support for the US civilian space program 20:32.110 --> 20:37.390 during its formative years is presumed as is the concept that space explorations were a key global 20:37.390 --> 20:43.910 determinant of US Cold War prestige. Such ideas are overdrawn. Contemporary analysts often 20:43.910 --> 20:48.990 studied to confirm what they already knew unattractive official findings were censored or ignored. 20:49.430 --> 20:53.750 Surveying all formerly secret and other opinion data about civilian space exploration from 20:53.750 --> 20:58.730 Sputnik 1 to the end of the mercury program shows how space exploration advocates helped create 20:58.730 --> 21:05.210 elite panic regarding the Sputniks via selective reporting while wider publics generally stayed 21:05.210 --> 21:11.350 indifferent to lunar and planetary missions. Elite panic, not mass panic, impelled the 21:11.350 --> 21:17.050 priorities and programs of the early space age. Because nothing says panic like elite panic. 21:17.050 --> 21:25.750 I even found a historian who wrote a chapter on this, talking about how JFK wasn't particularly 21:25.750 --> 21:30.070 interested in space and privately admitted the whole escapade was a waste of money, 21:30.410 --> 21:34.950 but he nevertheless knew the rewards to be reaped from a frightened electorate. 21:35.150 --> 21:39.070 But it doesn't even seem like they were that frightened. So there's elite panic, 21:39.670 --> 21:43.990 which just sounds like manufactured panic, which they couldn't even really manufacture 21:43.990 --> 21:48.350 is the thing. Why did I show you this? I was looking for something else 21:49.070 --> 21:53.710 tangentially related, but not not this. And then I just stumbled into this like, oh, 21:54.130 --> 22:08.740 it's another elevator in the Truman Show. Why? Because it bothers this shit out of me, guys. 22:09.400 --> 22:13.880 Why is it that everything in our society is done in this crisis mode? 22:14.160 --> 22:17.440 You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, 22:17.500 --> 22:20.660 it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. 22:20.660 --> 22:23.640 Or they have to make it seem like there's a crisis happening. 22:24.200 --> 22:30.680 Why does every piece of progress humanity gets to have have to start in this way? 22:31.180 --> 22:35.200 It's not even a real crisis. It is a manufactured phony crisis. 22:35.600 --> 22:42.600 But there's always some bloody battle or some horrible event. You know, if it's not Pearl 22:42.600 --> 22:45.940 Harbor, then it's Sputnik. If it's not Sputnik, then it's 22:45.940 --> 22:52.300 Gulf of Tonkin getting us into the Vietnam War, which was a false flag, or the Challenger Explosion, 22:52.620 --> 22:56.880 or Y2K, or 9-11, or whatever. There's always something, right? 22:57.380 --> 23:01.640 Because we can't just be excited about the future. We have to be terrified of it every 23:01.640 --> 23:08.020 single time with some fake manufactured crisis. And this means they started the entire space age 23:08.020 --> 23:10.260 basically on a lie. That's what it means. 23:49.040 --> 23:54.820 Even small children understand the concept that if you start an endeavor on a lie, 23:55.480 --> 24:00.780 it's not going to go well. Once you start on a lie, there's really nowhere else to go but more lies. 24:01.280 --> 24:05.520 Because you have to tell more lies to cover up the lie you already told. You have to keep telling 24:05.520 --> 24:10.600 lies. Unless you tell the truth, which they didn't do. They're still not doing. To this day, they're 24:10.600 --> 24:15.200 still not doing it. It's kind of amazing. To this day, you still have the New York Times being like, 24:15.320 --> 24:20.340 it was the 9-11 of their time. No, it wasn't. It wasn't actually the 9-11 of anyone's time. 24:20.800 --> 24:25.280 There's no evidence to show that it was. I think they wanted it to be the 9-11 of 24:25.280 --> 24:30.320 everyone's time. Although, that's the question. Why? Why did they want that to be? Was it 24:30.320 --> 24:36.520 really just to create an illusion of a technological gap, which at least the NASA historian admits was 24:36.520 --> 24:41.100 an illusion that they created? The event created an illusion of a technological gap 24:41.100 --> 24:45.540 to provide the impetus for increased spending for aerospace endeavors and 24:45.540 --> 24:51.180 they couldn't get people excited about it in any other way. It had to be done in this way, really. 24:51.400 --> 24:57.020 And then you've got people who just repeat that information as if this is the true story. 24:57.580 --> 25:03.920 And it's not. And why is that okay for them? Why is it okay for some people to just repeat 25:04.460 --> 25:10.620 talking points about what supposedly happened and they're not interested to actually go look at 25:10.620 --> 25:17.100 what actually did happen, which is a lot of times not the same. I don't understand it. 25:17.720 --> 25:23.120 You know, I think it's so bizarre that as an American, I can throw a rock in almost any 25:23.120 --> 25:27.240 direction. I don't even have to throw it that far. Actually, the rock could just kind of fall 25:27.240 --> 25:34.160 out of my pocket and I'm finding some stuff like this. Why is that? Because that's messed up, okay? 25:34.460 --> 25:42.500 That feels so weird. I thought this was a basic known piece of information and it's not. It's 25:42.500 --> 25:48.740 not. And the sad part is I could do this all day, especially during the Cold War period, 25:48.740 --> 25:54.360 but you could do it with lots of other periods, too. In fact, the entire 20th century is rife 25:54.360 --> 25:59.920 with this stuff if you just go look. But it's just really sad that we have to live that way 26:00.500 --> 26:05.900 and that we've not stopped living that way. And in order to understand where you are, 26:06.280 --> 26:12.980 you have to look at where we've actually been because this is a formula. This manufactured 26:13.840 --> 26:21.660 crisis is a formula that is used. And I guess they just think everyone is not, not intelligent enough 26:21.660 --> 26:27.580 to handle the truth. So we're going to infantilize everyone, keep them in a childlike state by 26:27.580 --> 26:32.720 constantly lying about everything. But you know, that's not really good for human consciousness. 26:32.980 --> 26:37.300 It's not really, it doesn't bode well for any of the promises of the future. And by the way, 26:37.540 --> 26:42.320 the same formula is being used. We're living in it right now. Everything that's about to 26:42.320 --> 26:47.780 happen, same formula. I mean, look at what just got done happening for the last four years. It's 26:47.780 --> 26:51.840 the same formula. And you could say, well, they do it because it works. Well, it didn't really work, 26:51.840 --> 26:57.680 though, because people didn't believe it. People didn't believe it at the time they didn't believe 26:57.680 --> 27:03.820 it. It's only since then, with lots of distance, they've been able to kind of continue to reaffirm 27:03.820 --> 27:07.120 that that's what happened. And now that's what people think happened because that's what 27:07.120 --> 27:13.380 they've heard. But it's not actually what occurred. I don't know, isn't anyone else sick and tired of 27:13.380 --> 27:19.020 this being the way everything is? Why does it have to be this way? All those images of the future 27:19.020 --> 27:25.080 and how cool it could be, you can't do that if you base everything on just lies and fake crises 27:25.080 --> 27:30.040 and bullshit. It's not ever going to happen. It never will never, it will never happen. So 27:30.040 --> 27:34.600 that's really sad. That's sad for everyone. So why did I show you this? I don't know. I'm 27:34.600 --> 27:41.380 surprised that it's just one more thing. It's just one more lie. Guess just throw it on the pile of lies. 27:41.980 --> 27:54.930 Yay, we live on a freaking throne of lies. But I still look up at the night sky all the time and 27:54.930 --> 28:03.910 wonder what we aren't being told about space. We may be witnessing the beginning of an era that 28:03.910 --> 28:09.010 will mean the complete annihilation of man. Oh, and by the way, here's an article that came 28:09.010 --> 28:17.770 out October 25th, 1957. So a couple weeks after the launch of Sputnik, mystery surrounds mothballed 28:17.770 --> 28:23.510 satellites. One of the unpublished facts about the American Sputnik snafu is that the army has 28:23.510 --> 28:28.950 six satellites in a warehouse in Huntsville, Alabama, all ready to launch and could have been launched 28:28.950 --> 28:38.990 before the Sputnik, thus keeping the USA ahead of the USSR and science and preventing one of the 28:38.990 --> 28:44.030 difficult to fathom, the army was under orders not to launch these satellites.