Revolutionary Think

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  1. Nope she's just a one woman show. She bought all the stuff herself and brought it up there. What amazes me is how she has such amazing friends in high places. Like Ashock and Carlos weren't a joke they had a giant resume and they've done such amazing extraordinary things with their lives and now they're my friends. She has analog missions in Kilimanjaro, Antarctica, Utah, and Everest that are sponsored she told me. Although for the local ones like the ones we did she said she funds it all by herself and it's hard. Honestly though when I joined I thought she just had a facility where I could work with 3D printers but, I was wrong. The only thing that bothers me is that she's focusing on the roughing it aspect just as much as the science and technology aspect. She's also extremely scatterbrained and ADHD she forgets things multiple times and tries to do too many things at once. Since I sent her a cover letter she really enjoyed I didn't have to go through the internship and I didn't have to pay the $1,000 participation fee and the $300 administration fee (that fee is waived when you bring your car and help with transport). The doctor and I also think the pilot had to pay those fees I got a scholarship. Other than that it's only a plus for my future. Not only are they focusing on science and technology but, the humanities aspect as well like the arts and psychology. I hope that cleared up some questions you had.
  2. I'm now a graduate of Mars Academy Crew 1115 as the Crew Engineer and 3D Printing Officer. How I got there I was not pushed out of my comfort zone but, I think that I was thrown out of my comfort zone. Preparation Day -2 of the simulation It starts innocently enough I go to here place first and there is a shit ton of stuff and someone else and we have to pack all this camping equipment and electronics into our car. Then we go onto a campsite in 105 to 110 degree weather we start setting up tents where red ants are crawling around. The tents were these things that you pulled them out from the sides but, when I pushed the roofs up I got a sand shower seems she didn't wash the tents before we used them. Then when we were setting up the tents with poles it was like doing trigonometry or something and she told the intern to pull on one of these poles and the intern got a splinter. After that at night Susan who was in charge of the whole thing was afraid to drive back because it was night time and wanted to sleep there I suggested we go home because not all the places to sleep weren't set up yet. I had the idea of driving Susan to her place and since I had to be at her place anyway Tomorrow at 8 AM I suggested since I had my luggage all packed I just sleep at her place. She seconded the idea and said it was OK. This was a totally different experience never in my life was I invited to sleepover at a persons place that was offering me a chance to advance my career. She was really nice she made food for me and let me use the shower. Day -1 of the simulation So we wake up she makes breakfast and stuffs my car with more stuff to take to the campsite. We get to the campsite and we start setting more things up. Unfortunately over there its no signal over there or wifi. So we had two more people joining us so I go to the McDonalds 2 miles away to get a wifi signal and some girl is supposed to be picking them up. So I keep trying to get in touch with the lady who was supposed to pick them up. She is not answering turns out she's at the court fighting a case and suing people. Susan read the message wrong so that left me and her. She told me I had to go pick them up at the flyaway. So I have to drive back 32 miles to the flyaway airport I meet both of them and they are great people. One is from Mexico city and he's a pilot and a doctor the other is an Indian guy who lives in Muscat, Oman and he is a doctor who works for Aerospace medicine. So I drive both of them to a T-mobile store so one of them can get a sim card. I get to know them more. On the way back to the campsite we get stuck in traffic the drive up there takes an hour and a half. We finally get there and they help us with the tents that we couldn't put up Yesterday. So at midnight the sim actually starts and I'm briefed on how it works and what we're supposed to do. Simulation starts Day 1 The next day I am in charge of waking people up and I wake them all up at 7 AM. After that we have a sim we need to do also since we are technically on "Mars" we use a bathroom for number 1 inside of the habitat and I was put in charge of taking care of people's liquid waste. Before we leave for the mission in 110 degree weather we have to don our space suits. Now this crazy women wants us to put on these black suits in this weather then after we put on the black suits we need to put something extra on our legs, then we have to wear these nasty smelling latex gloves, then we have a radio with an ear piece that we have to put on our ears with scotch tape on it, then we need to wear a beanie, then a square backpack filled with Tupperware (oxygen system), and last but certainly not least we have to wear these stupid biker helmets that squish our heads and rams the ear piece into our ears. So after we're done wearing this spacesuit monstrosity we go to the airlock and wait 3 minutes until we leave we are using the radio. So I'm in charge of taking care of the liquid waste so I am all disoriented and my head feels cramped. I go to the main bathroom at the campsite and the lady tells me I can't dispose of the waste there so I radio that in and the crazy lady in charge of the mission wants me to take the waste into my car and dispose of the waste on my way up to the site we are going to. So I take the waste and dump it in the garbage disposal no way in hell is that getting anywhere near my car. So we all finally get in my car all cramped with the AC on full blast with all this spacesuit crap on me. So much stuff on me I have to contort myself into my own car. So finally after the 3 minute recompression sequence I can take off the helmet and the backpack. We drive up to the rocks in that terrible weather and once we get there we have to put on the stupid helmet and the backpack over again. Again it crashes my head and rams the radio in my ear then after that we go hiking on the rocks we communicate by radio and we have to take pictures and get samples. I get a headache and I go back down and I take the helmet and the earpiece out all disoriented. When I get back to the car the crew comes in my car to and once the helmet is off his face is sweating like crazy. They are concerned for my health and think I haven't drank enough water or had enough food. That's not the case at all it was just the stupid tight helmet that was driving me nuts. So we drive back to the hab and after that I finally get a chance to take off all that space clothes. At night we install the lights at the habitat and it turns out that the lady who had that court date Yesterday finally makes it to the hab she doesn't bring her own car she had someone drop her off. Then we install lights at the hab so we don't have to use flashlights. At night when I sleep I sleep next to the Indian guy and he snores extremely loud, his snoring, the birds outside, and the sounds of ranchero music because of the campsites around us I have to use ear plugs. Day 2 I wake people up at 7 AM again and it seems like the Indian guy and the Mexican (we are using inflatable mattresses that work with an air pump) their beds constantly deflated. So in the morning we go over how to do proper CPR and I practice CPR on the Mexican guy. It was actually quite interesting learning about it and what to do. Then we go to the pool to practice underwater CPR I join them and it was the worst mistake I should've opted out. My car keys were still in my swimming trunks when I went in and luckily for me they were waterproof I thought I wouldn't be able to use the FOB on my car after that. Then when we get back I take a shower and it was the weirdest most awful and awkward shower I've ever taken in my life. I had limited water to use with dish washing soap and I had to put my clothes up in the zipper of the tent. Not to mention the toilet being right next to me. I get out of that shower ordeal. Now at this point by some miracle Susan needs to go back down to her house to collect some things and Carlos (the Mexican guy is in charge). He's much more lax and fun than Susan he's an awesome guy to be around. So me and him go out to a place with signal to finally get the UAV to work. I actually do a better job than him in figuring out how it works. We finally get it to work and fly it around the habitat (we spy on the other two lol) and then it flys up 100 feet in the air and finds its way back to us. Now I'm having fun and actually enjoying myself. We have another training where we pretend an astronaut has gotten lost and fell unconscious except this time around I don't have to wear those space suit monstrosities and I'm habcom. They go out in the scorching heat doing the exercise and I communicate with them on the inside. For this exercise we are using the drone although there is a problem and the drone isn't charging. Also because of the scorching heat the electrical system are having their fair share of charging and overheating problems. So when they ask for drone support I say I could if I could but, I can't (wasn't charged). So they bring in the "unconscious medic" and wear these hospital scrubs to do CPR on a manikin. They see all the 3D printed stuff I made and they are impressed. After that Susan finally comes back and she brings this sound therapy guy to do some sound therapy on us. Before that though we give our presentations and I give my presentation about 3D printing. Then when the guy is ready to do sound therapy the 5th and final member of the crew shows up who is the crew psychiatrist and film taker she's from Russia but, lives in Pasadena. She's just in time for the sound therapy. We do the sound therapy and the guy who does the sound therapy for us sleeps with us on that night. At night Ashock (the Indian guy) is pissed off at the bed situation and decides to put the queen mattress under his mattress and then what ends up happening is that his mattress plus the queen mattress both deflates and I end up in my bed sleeping at angle with his snoring which isn't comfortable at all. Day 3 So we wake up and I wake everyone up early I hardly get a wink of sleep. My engineering room is a complete mess because now everyone is charging their electronics in that room that my laptop and my 3D printer is in. There is just a smorgasbord of usb cables, wires, chargers, and electronic devices in the scorching heat. So we go to the briefing room after that and the sound therapy guy makes us some egg whites. Seems like we're going to the rocks yet again. This time though it's different the drone works. Susan tells me I wont just be staying in the car all the time working with the drone but, she's not there and that's exactly what I do lol. The interesting thing is this I tell them that I may need a practice run with the drone before we go up to the rocks (it's an $800 piece of equipment). Commander Carlos denies my request and says there is no time (so I'm thinking if this drone crashes or something happens to it it's not my fault). So now the Russian girl brought her own car Carlos rides with her and I ride with the Indian guy and the artstronaut. At the rocks I fly the drone really high and take a couple of shots they're pretty good shots. I don't get out of the car and my helmet and backpack is off. The rest of them are out there taking pictures and collecting samples. OK so we get back to the base and then the Russian lady films us for something special we talk about the samples we collected and why we collected them. The best part of course is my part when I finally get a chance to demonstrate my 3D printing printer and the pen. The 3D printing pen turned the pilot and the doctor both into kindergartners they were so amazed and impressed with it. I managed to 3D print medical devices like hemostats and scalpels out of plastic. I also 3D printed a cat for the doctor to take home to his son. The doctor was staring at the 3D printed cat for 5 minutes he was so impressed with it. Then I explained to the doctor and the pilot how everything worked. When I demonstrated my pen the camera woman was so impressed that she wanted to play with it too. So someone took over her duties. It really felt great at that moment to explain all that and be the center of attention (even though I know this ego stuff isn't good) at least I was making people happy. Then near the end of the day we did body mapping art which is a form of therapy. Then it was time to sleep after all that I was next to the snoring again and later at night they were both snoring. Day 4 last day Susan had to go to Palmdale to pick up her sister that meant Carlos was in charge again and I was happy with that. So that day we had another event we had to do at the pool. This time I didn't go in the pool I was just looking over everyone's stuff and taking pictures of the underwater activities. After that was over we went to an air conditioned room near another pool. Carlos gave this absolutely amazing presentation about space and what happens in space it was better than any lecture I ever had in high school and University. After that awesome presentation we go back into the hab and we just wash dishes and speak with each other basically we bond. So eventually I get bored go outside turn on the drone and I see if I can spy on them. Then after that we're waiting for Susan to get back because we're not going to sleep there again. She finally gets back at about 7 PM and after that we graduate I get a Diploma and so does everyone else. We all get a special spacesuit with all our names embroidered on it and we take tons of pictures. Then I fly the drone and take a couple of pictures of us with the drone. Although we're not out of the woods yet because of all the shit we need to take back. I fit everything I can in the engineering room into my car and then The Russian lady takes everyone else home so it's just me and Susan. Then Susan tells me that she needs to follow my car because she can't see in the dark and I also tell her that I'll come back to help her Tomorrow to get some of the stuff down. I get home at 12:30 past midnight with the drone and the rover and the electronics in my car. Day 5 post mission I am with Susan at the site and with the drone. I play around with the drone a little and help Susan out with these tents I take two tents in my car, and some other stuff. I throw a bucket into a tent she is keeping for storage little did I know (because she didn't tell me) that there was urine in that bucket. The urine spills into some of the prepackaged food and starts stinking up the tent. At this point I stop caring and she tells me it's not big deal. So she needs to pick up her sister later to take her to the hospital. So we finally drive out of there and little did I know I left the pad that had all the pictures from the drone. I call the ranger at night and let him know so he can keep it in lost and found. Then all of a sudden at midnight I get this excruciating pain in my upper right shoulder upper back. It hurts so much I do whatever I can to stop it walk, sit, and lay down none of it works and I end up collapsing on the floor in pain that's when my mom sees me and gets some Advil for me then the pain slowly dissipates. Day 6 finally OK so turns out Ashock is still in LA and hasn't gone to Muscat yet. He forgets his laptop charger in the engineering room and I have it. He takes an uber to my house and me him and my mom have a friendly chat together. Then when he leaves I remember Susan said something about her daughter being a pilot at Long Beach airport. I call just to see if I can have a chance to sit in the backseat of these flights when she flies (big mistake) the airport tells her about me and she's upset she calls her mom. Then Susan calls me and she's extremely upset because she thinks I am mixing professional with personal (even though she let me sleep at her place and introduced me to her sister and her son) I pretend to regret it and I apologize to her then her anger abates. She asks me about Ashock coming over to my place and I said it was pretty awesome. All and all an interesting experience that really pushed me to the edge. It had its fun parts and its terrible parts and at the same time really grew me as a person and opened up opportunities and I made great friends. Anything else you want to know about it feel free to ask.
  3. Here is my experience everyone @Lorcan
  4. I'd say he's more orange than red but, yeah maybe.
  5. @Lorcan I'd think that person would be an anti-hero.
  6. @Lorcan Thanks I just got back. I'm going to rest I'll tell you all about it later.
  7. Anyone who is interested in seeing it.
  8. @Leo Gura I've never considered Russian food to make people fat. What did they feed you lol . Or maybe it was just the unhealthy food when you came to the US?
  9. http://personalityspirituality.net/2016/07/13/what-is-donald-trump/
  10. Maybe...
  11. @TomDashingPornstar good one. This is what I like about this forum and this community those people who come here and start criticizing Leo think as if we worship him. I don't worship Leo far from it I see him more as a friend and a person that can help me not as some kind of cult leader. That's why I/we can make jokes about him and treat him like any other human being on this planet. Try cracking jokes and making fun of your rabbi's, priests, or imams and see how that goes.
  12. Oh I didn't see that thread. Do you know what it was called?
  13. @Joseph Maynor Don't get me wrong I don't mean the only one I guess I was exaggerating. The reason I said that was when I was lost in my life and I was looking for some form of truth I kept watching video of atheists debating religious people in this case it was rabbis because I am Jewish and Judaism seemed like the best way to go for a religion because throughout the years so many terrible things happened to Jewish people and they survived. Then I even went to a Jewish Young professionals place that had this non-religious Israeli guy speak about his near death experience and how it made him religious and I thought I finally found the answer that the meaning of my life is to become a religious Jew because that way I know I'm a good person and my afterlife will be secure. It wasn't until I became a bit disillusioned by the process of what being an Orthodox Jew actually meant that I couldn't do anything on Friday night and Saturday morning including driving, turning on lights, any form of work, and not being able to use anything that turned on and off. I was really suffering at that point because I always felt like I was putting my afterlife in danger. Although that was happening all atheist had to offer was nothing like nothing is important it's all meaningless deal with it and religion was if you don't adhere to these super ultra strict rules then you're going to be in trouble after you pass away. It wasn't until I found Leo's channel that it kind of felt like a middle ground atheism has gone nuts and religion has gone nuts but, here is truly finding out some kind of truth with a sense of not shoving it down someones throat and at the same time not telling them that all is just meaningless and nothing exists and it's all pointless. So that's what I got from his channel. Even when I didn't know about Leo I thought that there had to be someone like him out there.
  14. @Leo Gura well I guess you plucked out his stage orangeness out of the community
  15. Does Leo have no clothes or do the clothes have no Leo In all seriousness though I don't worship @Leo Gura or anyone for that matter but, when someone comes to me with good ideas I give that person a chance and Leo is the only person I've seen on the internet with a good sense of nuance and someone that seems like he takes the time to think about things instead of making assumptions and jumping to conclusions.
  16. @K VIL I have a YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiz-7guC2P0Ggp1_0dvgemw?view_as=subscriber and a blog http://bakshandehariel.wixsite.com/website
  17. Just thought I'd share something positive with all of you. When I was younger and my life was quite painful I used to get jealous of people who had parents that were married, were enjoying their lives, had more money, did extremely well in school, knew advanced topics, and who could go on awesome vacations. Now though I see it's all a state of mind jealousy and envy aren't useful emotions and they don't do anything to improve our lives. After I went on my trips to Australia, Japan, Israel, and New Zealand by myself I thought to myself that I shouldn't have been jealous of the people who have more abundance and are happy instead I should be making friends with them and learning from them. So when I went to the ISDC and met Jeff Bezos maybe I was a little envious that he never had to worry about money a day in is life but, when I got up to him and talked to him face to face it was like he was like at the end of the day we were just people having a conversation and all that other stuff is an illusion. I have a body he has a body and we're both living on this planet. He didn't think that I was just some peasant not worthy of having a conversation with him and in fact he started the conversation because I went up to him but, didn't know what to say at first. Then when I started mingling with all the rocket scientists and space enthusiasts despite not having a background in the hard sciences it just seemed like I belonged there anyway just because I had a passion for it. I felt like I was just as much a part of it with my Communications Degree from CSUN than someone who went to Harvard and had a degree in astrophysics. So I made my way to those awesome countries I always wanted to see and now I'm part of Mars Academy USA and I'm going to be a part of something with more doctors and scientists as a 3D printing officer and who knows what awesome things are in store for me in my future. It feels so liberating not to have to have any homework assignments from school in the back of my head and not be somewhere watching someone happy and coming from a place of abundance and me shaking my fists at that person saying I deserve all of this and that person doesn't because I know now there is plenty to go around. So if you are that jealous person I was in their teens or mid-twenties know that things always evolve and change and where you are now isn't where you are going to end up. Just send your signal out into the Universe and instead of being jealous and envious from the people who have success and are in a better place than you try to emulate them and befriend them it's a much better idea. Just imagine if in Germany instead of the people being stupid and hating the Jews they knew nothing about they made friends with them and learned from them instead. More people have that mindset of abundance and love the better place this planet (and even the universe) will be.
  18. Who here loves what they do and what are the step by step action plans they took to get there. As in who here is doing a job they enjoy and getting paid a wage that either they can afford there expenses or they have exceeded what they need to pay their expenses.
  19. @CreamCat I made #1 part of my life purpose to combat it.
  20. @Leo Gura you and Bezos both have the same haircut. The funny thing is that I met Bezos at the ISDC and still haven't met you but, I have more correspondence with you. I have hope maybe I can introduce both of you to each other... you are each other lol
  21. I was wondering and it seems like a timely topic because I made a post about a vacation with my family and someone else is making a post about an upcoming vacation with their family. I want to know if most people who changed the world worked on self-actualization etc. had rifts with in their families. All I know about @Leo Gura's family are the things he's shared with us in previous episodes. His dad was looking for get rich quick schemes so from time to time they had money problems and that's where his hoarding money psychology problem came from. Then what I know about his mom is that he once tried to convince her to take psychedelics and she wouldn't because she thought it was nonsense and that she had a knack and talent for making art but, she didn't follow through with it as a life purpose. Then what I know about his brother is that he chose to get the video game at Toys R Us and that's when Leo saw it and was inspired to become a game developer. When I was younger (since I grew up with Disneyland and Hollywood I lived in Los Angeles so those things were very prominent) the movies brainwashed me into thinking that everything works out in the end. So somehow I always thought that one day people especially my family would get me and understand me in the end and I'd be accepted and honored for who I am and magically have this not obnoxious happy relationship with my family and I'd enjoy being around them in a genuine way. THAT DIDN'T COME TRUE. In fact as time went by in some cases it just got worse and worse and the rift between me and them just kept growing wider and wider. When I was past the age of 21 I saw less and less of them and things were not as obnoxious because they had less power over me and treated me more of an adult so they couldn't scold me for not being the first person to say hi to them anymore and yell at me when I was just daydreaming instead of starting a conversation with them. Not to mention there was already a war going on between my mother and father and the two sides of the family were constantly bad mouthing each other. Other than that I noticed I'm just different with my interests in general. They like gossiping about others, stick to their culture, are very stage orange in a materialistic sort of way, they like rowdiness and arguing with each other, and they seemed to have no interest in finding the Truth with a capital T. That makes me wonder that for Leo or for any of you other people on this forum if you feel the same way too? Like when you stumbled upon actualized.org and you found these videos about enlightenment and self-actualization were you excited to share it with your sister, brother, mom, dad, aunt, uncle etc. Did you show them and they didn't care, did you just forget about showing them any of it because you know that it would go way over their head, or did you show them and they actually did care and join you on a journey of self actualization (in that case I think you hit the jackpot)? That leaves me with Leo I'm wondering what kind of relationship he had with his family and extended family before self actualization like if he was always the quiet one and the rest of the family wanted to talk about petty things while he was just always curios as to why they would talk about those things (like I was). Also now that he has actualized.org and so many followers if his family is also following him and interested in what he is doing or is it that no matter what your career or business you are in or how much money you have you will always keep that position in your family no matter what. Like if you were always the scapegoat for your family and next thing you know you become a multi-millionare you will still be the scapegoat in your family. In another scenario if you were always the shy one in your family but, you somehow became a guru and influenced thousands of people when you come back to your family you are still that shy one. It's funny because I noticed in my family that I was always this non-threatening push over character in my family that would always accept my uncles abuse no matter what but, then when I pushed back against it my uncle didn't know what the hell to do and everyone in the family became uncomfortable and told me to calm down because it kind of pushed away from the dysfunctional dynamic of the family that they were used to. So anyway really curious to know all of this. This would be the best research for why skin color and race really doesn't matter and Eugenics is a load of bullshit because people in the same families can be so different and genes would have nothing to do with interests, personalities, IQs and Emotional Intelligence because people in the same family can be so different.
  22. @ajasatya I understand for me the biggest injustice is trying to shove something down someone's throat and call it justice. If I have some I idea I think is amazing I must remember that it is I who thinks it's amazing. This purpose is for the people out there who felt like I did in the past I felt like I was suffocating when I was younger because I hardly had anywhere to turn to (except for maybe video games) and hardly anyone I could confide in (except my one best friend). Then as I grew older I tried to little by little force my philosophy on other people and hold anger and resentment against those who didn't get it so that was me building the Temple with those bricks that represented my failure I've already been through that and want nothing of it. I just offer people who feel like there is no where to turn to and who want something better what I think is a better way where they can take it or leave it. Although I think unless they tried it they can't really know I wont be the one to force them to try it either. That's where my beef with the current society comes from because when I was growing up it felt like a lifestyle I didn't like or have passion for was being shoved down my throat by people who thought that "they were doing the right thing) my family and my teachers/education system etc. and I felt so miserable. My philosophy for this justice is that people deserve to be happy because in the grand cosmic scale of things (or at least from what we know) people didn't exactly choose to be born. So this justice is about people finding their true path and not having anything shoved down their throats by family, school, society etc. I will speak power to that philosophy and see how it works out.