Originally Posted by bae
Not so much with the military (orders, possible prison time, governments budget to make someone look like an idiot, etc). I remember in the 80's when my dad told me his SR71 story. His military days were manning one of our missile stations connected to Norad and Congress (had a part go bad, when brand new barely to spec and quickly fell out, so a congressional investigation). Norad told him his "radar was out of calibration" until they realized they were talking to the guy that just calibrated it, then he was ordered to ignore the blip on the screen as it wasn't there. This was around 63/64. (for years he never considered himself a veteran as he never went to Vietnam like siblings)
Although I did give my former/late neighbor a bunch of grief, when I saw his military discharge papers. He was discharged and left with his nurse girlfriend, from Roswell New Mexico on June 30th 1947. Also more apt to believe in part that one, due to our fear of the Russians at the time, as well as just getting out of a war. Fear of another war (either planetary or interplanetary should scare the heck out of politicians and such)
Besides that, I would like to think finding a spaceship of some kind, would give hope to us as a species that we can rise above the bs and eventually head to the stars.
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