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Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs (Brookings report)
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedA NASA-commissioned study of the social effects of space activity, one page of which considers how the public might react to discovering artefacts of another intelligence and notes that the finding might be withheld. Speakers cite that page as policy; the report proposes studies rather than policy.
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| Identifier | Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs (Brookings Institution for NASA) |
|---|---|
| Issuing body | Brookings Institution for NASA |
| Date | |
| Kind | report |
| Status | exists as a document; retrieved and read |
| Where | https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19640053196 |
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Anthropological files contain many examples of societies, sure of their place in the universe, which have disintegrated when they have had to associate with previously unfamiliar societies espousing different ideas and different life ways; others that survived such an experience usually did so by paying the price of changes in values and attitudes and behavior.
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NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) 20 July 2026
- 1:01:08 ▶
call calling a spade a spade. That's saying it is what it already was. And even before that, NASA commissioned uh the Brookings report in 1959. It was published in 1960. And the recommendations of that report from the
- 1:01:08 ▶ cited on the show
- 1:01:38 ▶
Brookings Institution commissioned by NASA was explicitly that it's possible that artifacts from an ET visitation will be found >> on the moon or Mars and our future space explorations of those planets. And if there could be potentially negative catastrophically negative consequences for so societal stability. >> So
- 1:01:38 ▶ cited on the show
- 1:01:08 ▶
Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE 20 July 2026
- 0:59:59 ▶
commissioned uh the Brookings report in 1959. It was published in 1960. And the recommendations of that report from the Brookings Institution commissioned by NASA was explicitly that it's possible that artifacts from an ET visitation will be found >> on the moon or Mars and our future space explorations of those
- 0:59:59 ▶ cited on the show
- 0:59:59 ▶
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- 1:01:08 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) ▶
call calling a spade a spade. That's saying it is what it already was. And even before that, NASA commissioned uh the Brookings report in 1959. It was published in 1960. And the recommendations of that report from the
- 1:01:38 NASA’s Biggest Secret Just Got Exposed (The Truth About The Moon) ▶
Brookings Institution commissioned by NASA was explicitly that it's possible that artifacts from an ET visitation will be found >> on the moon or Mars and our future space explorations of those planets. And if there could be potentially negative catastrophically negative consequences for so societal stability. >> So
- 0:59:59 Physicist: NASA Is Hiding What's Really on the Moon | MEMBERS RELEASE ▶
commissioned uh the Brookings report in 1959. It was published in 1960. And the recommendations of that report from the Brookings Institution commissioned by NASA was explicitly that it's possible that artifacts from an ET visitation will be found >> on the moon or Mars and our future space explorations of those
- Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for Human Affairs (Brookings report)
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