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Our goal is to let as many people as possible know about the project The Cradle of Mir
It's a giant pyramid containing a model of the space station Mir, which will be shown at Burning Man festival
We think it's an awesome idea. Everyone must know about it
The festival's theme for this year is Cargo Cult
So we decided to explore this idea
To men of Western civilization Cargo Cult is a strange, mysterious and kind of funny religion
It originated on the islands of Melanesia
People who lived there started to build exact copies of American aircrafts
Using only what they could find, like sticks and branches
By doing so, they tried to get back the Gods who had brought them all those gadgets, things like Coca-Cola and stew
They treated these things as gifts from above, objects that don't deteriorate and that are tasty and wonderful
As everybody knows Burning Man is the festival of radical self-expression
People go there to share something, to do something
To learn something new, to show themselves, to change themselves
The Burning Man festival is a big family
We didn't want to copy anything, we wanted to make our own cult
Cargo means load. And the space station "Mir" left a load and a legacy of its own
For example, hope for peaceful co-existence, for further explorations in the space and for people being able to unite to discover the unknown