Neo-Cosmist Space Religion: Putin, Musk and the Mars Hoax

Putin’s compares Musk to Soviet rocketry pioneer Sergei Korolev

In a public conversation with university students, the dictator of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, praised American oligarch Elon Musk and perpetuated Musk’s myth of colonizing Mars by comparing him to a legendary Russian rocket engineer:

You know there's a person Elon Musk lives in the United States. He's constantly dreaming about Mars and it's not often that such people are born and the human population. You are so obsessed with an idea that seems impossible to many, but which often becomes reality after some time. Just as it happened with the ideas put forward by Korolev, whether the space pioneers who built plans that seemed unrealistic to some, but it all came true.

Sergei Korolev was a Soviet rocket designer who was imprisoned by Stalin and tortured in a gulag for six years. When he emerged, he became known as “Chief” or “Chief Designer” of the Russian intercontinental ballistic missile program after WWII — which gave rise to the space race with the United States. Most famously, Korolev successfully launched the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin.

One of Korolev’s inspirations was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian Cosmist rocket scientist who has been directly praised by Elon Musk.

Musk in 2018:

There are a lot of negative things in the world. There's a lot of terrible things that are happening all over the world. All the time, there are lots of problems that need to get solved. There are lots of things that are miserable and get you down. But life cannot just be about solving one miserable problem after another. That can't be the only thing. There need to be things that inspire you, that make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. This guy called Tsiolkovsky, one of the early Russian rocket scientists, the great saying, "Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever." It is time to go forth to come to a star-faring civilization, be out there among the stars, expand the story.

Elon Musk doesn’t mention that Tsiolkovsky was also a eugenicist who thought that imperfect life forms should be “annihilated”:

In a thousand million years nothing imperfect, such as contemporary fauna, flora and human beings, will be existing on Earth. Only the best will remain... in the cosmos there is no place for imperfect, suffering life: intelligent and advanced planets annihilate such life forms.

Nevertheless, Sergei Korolev’s great successes with Sputnik were not just based on the work of Tsiolkovsky. Gagarin’s trip to space and Sputnik would not have been possible without another rocket scientist’s work, Nazi Operation Paperclip immigrant Wernher von Braun. When Korolev emerged from the gulag in 1945, his first mission was to recover the technology of the Nazi V-2 rocket, which served as the basis for the Russian ICBM program.

As I was first to report, Elon Musk was named by his father after a character in Wernher von Braun‘s science fiction book “Marsprojekt” about a technocratic dictatorship on Mars led by “The Elon.” Like Sergei Korolev, Elon Musk also used the designs of von Braun’s rocket, in this case the Saturn V, which, like Sputnik, was an advancement on the V-2, a weapon that killed 9.000 in London and thousands more in concentration camps in production.

“The holy grail of SpaceX would be to build the Saturn VI.”

Last month Kiril Dmitriev, Putin’s money man, said that the Russians, including nuclear agency Rosatom, would be cooperating with Musk to go to Mars, a ludicrous mission Musk has repeated time and time again.

it is increasingly clear that there is more than just a financial and geopolitical agreement between Putin, Musk and the PayPal Mafia to loot the American economy and save Russia’s. It seems to me they are in the process of creating a new space religion together, which is partly why Trump has intentionally lowered our defenses to Russian propaganda.

Elon Musk and his adherents already treat his Mars project as a quasi-religion. Anyone who questions the doctrine of becoming “multi-planetary” is dismissed, mocked and rejected. I know this first-hand from debunking this idea on social media. The arguments, in much the same way Trump supporters and QAnon believers behave, refuse to acknowledge basic facts and reality, that Mars is and always will be uninhabitable.

Musk’s PayPal Mafia co-conspirator Peter Thiel, who funds a wide array of anti-science projects and propagandists, along with creating JD Vance out of whole cloth, declared science be “over” and “exhausted” — and cited Russian Cosmism in contemplating a new model for technological advancement, and a new kind of Christianity.

With the recent revelations that Musk, Thiel and Matt Gaetz brother-in-law Palmer Luckey want to build a constellation of “attack satellites” for a “Golden Dome” on a “subscription model,” it’s easy to see where this is going.

The deceitful vision of going to Mars, expanding humanity to the stars, and of transcending a world falling to chaos, is going to be promoted by the broligarchy into a new quasi-religion, a Neo-Cosmism, designed to excite the population while it serves the needs of the elites. As a prior example, the “space race” in the 50s and 60s between the Russians and the Americans was effectively a bilateral cover up for a Cold War contest to build weapons that could annihilate one another. Korolev’s work was based on a weapon of mass destruction.

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Vladimir Putin and the transnational propaganda complex appear to be reanimating the space race except the “race” is against the impending doom of humanity on Earth. Elon Musk was recently quoted saying to one of his baby mamas, he wants enough children “to reach legion-level before the apocalypse.”

I did not have a Neo-Cosmist doomsday space religion being created by apartheid oligarchs in conjunction with a foreign enemy nation-state on my Bingo card. Nevertheless, here we are.

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