There are two reasons I am dedicating today’s blog to space:
First, and most importantly, today is the 50th anniversary of Juri Gagarin’s historic first flight into space. He was not just a hero to Russians. He was a pioneer and a hero for all mankind. Hopefully, some day the people of the world will be united enough to see that as a plain, obvious fact.
Juri Gagarin, 1st Man in Space
The 2nd reason is that an FBI memo has recently surfaced, from 1950, in which a fairly high up person, in a memo to J. Edgar himself, wrote “an investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico… Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. …”
Now, this is tantalizing but it doesn’t, unfortunately, prove anything. It indicates that some FBI agent, at one point, said there were aliens. He may have been reporting hearsay. He may have been a little careless with his choice of words, leaving out the ‘allegedly’ in between was and occupied. He may have been wandering around in the New Mexico desert for too long. Cars didn’t have air conditioners in 1950 and the sunlight coming through the windshield can bake your old noggin like a potato.
Now, some might wonder why I am skeptical of this memo when I believe, wholeheartedly, that it was a Freudian Slip (or simple overconfidence and stupidity) when Larry Silverstein said “As for building 7, we’d already decided to pull it.” The difference is motive. Silverstein, the Bush family (Marvin was the inside man), Dick Cheney et alii had very strong motivation to cover up the government’s involvement in 9/11. They would go to jail if it were revealed that they had planted bombs in the basement.
On the other hand, the government wouldn’t have a reason for keeping the aliens secret. Really, if it were common knowledge that there were other, space faring creatures in the universe, the government’s power would increase tremendously. People would gladly work long hours in factories building spaceships and nobody would question government policies on anything because “Do you want the little green monsters to WIN?” Also, if the powers that be had inside knowledge in 1950 of the existence of extraterrestrials, I think NASA would be a little bit better funded than it is.
I think it’s very important that the human species explore space and I think it’s a shame that, 50 years after Gagarin’s flight, we do not even have a permanent colony on Mars yet. The reason it’s important is this: if we have not developed the means to travel in space before we use up the resources needed to do so, then the human race will be doomed to stay on Earth until it is swallowed by the Sun.
That is not the way to go.
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