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by markus_zhang 1155 days ago
I'd argue that consumer electronics makes people stay at home or look down so they don't actually look at the sky very often. Of course this is a stretched answer but I miss a lot about my X-Files days. Back then I had the wild dream of working as an UFO hunter/researcher.

Hopefully I can inject some fire into my son's heart. It's a good topic worth wasting a whole life on it, as long as one pursues it scientifically.

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Indeed. As Jose Chung taught us, the truth is out there but we wouldn't recognize it if it crawled up our pant-leg and bit us on the ass. (Not that the truth frequently takes the form of something that can crawl up our collective pant legs and bite us anywhere, much less the ass.)
Thanks. My fav episode, and "although we may not be alone in the universe, in our separate ways on this planet, we are all alone." rings true forever for me.