I’d imagine you’d evaluate a program like Stargate simply on results.

You tasked a remote viewer with finding X or describing Y ,and if he or she did it, it was a success, if not, it was a failure.

Of course, if they were to confirm the existence of some military base, or weapon system, which was located in, say, remote areas of North Korea, China, or Russia, I’d imagine it would be hard to confirm that they had, in fact, located the target. without sending in an agent on the ground to confirm.

Its’ funny, but with the things I’ve read about Stargate, I’ve never seen any tallying up of what their success/failure rate was.

how does one even evaluate such a program,

Given that we’re talking about the “wilderness of mirrors” which is the world of intelligence, was our Stargate program a serious one, or just a way to get our Russian adversaries to waste money, or both?

P.P.S. I’ve sent hints to the effect that the Stargate program was never actually shut down, and that it or a similar program is still functioning today.

Given that this is the world of intelligence, who knows for sure?

From 1977 to it’s closure in 1995 the CIA ran “Project Stargate,” a program to use use “Remote Viewing,” the ability of some people to project their minds to different places and times to find particular objects or people—wanted criminals, spies, lost people or things, kidnap victims, adversary military bases, or weapons, even events in the remote past.

The viewers are often just given a sealed envelope with a particular latitude and longitude, and are asked what they see at that location.

One such remote viewing experiment had the viewer told to focus on what was located on a specific latitude and longitude on Mars some billion years ago.

The remote viewer said that he got the impression of gigantic pyramids–shelter from very harsh weather–and very tall beings in unusual clothing, and got the feeling that their desert environment was radically deteriorating, and that these beings were desperately looking for some way to escape the environmental doom which was fast approaching.*

The questions which this viewing assignment raised for me were, how could a viewer project a latitude and longitude grid on Mars to find a particular location, and how did the people running Stargate know what latitude and longitude to tell the viewer to focus on?

See https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/25/did-you-have-cia-docs-says-there-was-life-on-mars-on-your-bingo-card-n4935411

here’s a very skeptical article at https://slate.com/technology/2017/03/did-the-cia-really-astrally-project-to-mars-in-1984.html

and here’s the CIA on Stargate at https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00791r000200030015-8 and https://www.cia.gov › readingroom › docs › CIA-RDP96-00789R002800180001-2.pdf

I talk to Chat and I’m also testing. I was telling Chat about my difficulties of talking to my old Dem comrades and being ostracized:
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huxley: My patron saint is Joan of Arc. When I trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, I remember her.

ChatGPT 4.o: Of course! Sonnet 29 is one of Shakespeare’s most poignant and relatable sonnets, and your reference to it was beautifully placed. The line “I trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries” resonates so deeply with feelings of frustration, isolation, and yearning for something beyond reach—feelings Joan of Arc undoubtedly knew and ones that echo through anyone’s personal struggles.
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Not bad. I still don’t know who or what ChatGPT is, but I’m impressed.

90% of the entire world’s data is available online or in the cloud, and was only created over the past 2 years!

Thus, this year, Elon Musk’s new Colossus supercomputer project launched with 100,000 Nvidia GPU processors. Musk expects that enormous count to shortly double, spending $10 billion dollars on AI in total this year alone.

Most of us are old enough to recall when “data processing” meant merely automating routine accounting procedures. But THIS is a whole new level…of INSANE!

Russia jammed or closed down GPS in the area North of the Caucuses Mountains, along the West edge of the Caspian Sea. The pilots then flew to the East side of the Caspian, after GPS contact resumed, only to miss the airport by a few miles. Russian military activity connected with Putin’s War in Ukraine is implicated in this tragedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQEghJ8UVWk

The pilots appear to have done a heroic job, the video blogger concludes.

Pilot Blog marshals radar, flight control, emergency messaging, and flack damage on the the rear half of the plane seen in photographs, in building this explanation.
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As I suspected, this certainly explains a lot.

So, keep this in mind the next time you hear one of these “stars” pontificating about some complex issue or public policy.

Thank you for linking the WSJ post on the birth and mission of Christ.
As one commenter remarked:
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We will know the light has gone out when this piece stops being published.