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Handkerchief users represent.
Handkerchief users represent.
Yup, people who object to Hawaiian Pizza for any reason other than “it’s not for me” don’t really understand food.
You have been awarded the key to the city of Halifax.
Along with this, if even one civilization had built von Neumann probes (which we are literally generations away from being able to do, conservatively) we should have seen them by now.
My belief has always been that if the phenomenon is “real”, it’s likely this.
I have often considered this. It does seem like the kind of thing you’d only read people into if absolutely necessary.
We know Hillary Clinton and John Podesta are into the phenomenon.
Presumably, if Bill was “briefed” he would have told them something by now.
The Obamas are actively working on a Betty and Barney Hill documentary. Presumably they are interested.
All of these people asked about it.
But why tell them anything at all?
I feel like presidents would be seen to need to maintain a distance from this unless there was a need for them to make a decision or announcement and lying through omission is ok in the intelligence community, it seems.
If there is any truth to rumours that people have literally been killed to keep this a secret it would be a bigger scandal than Iran/Contra, etc. No need to air that laundry if they don’t have to. If they have imperfect knowledge of the phenomenon, no need to admit that and show weakness or create fear.
And so on. I think if we thought some vehicle might show up in a very public way, they would read a president in and prep them to address the public and other world leaders.
Also, say we did detect one. Our ability to respond limits us to a very long response time. Then another to get back an acknowledgment.
I’ve casually mused that the slow roll of disclosure (tdb if that is what we are seeing) that began in 2017 might be because we finally heard back “Earth sounds nice, looking forward to having you for dinner, I mean having dinner WITH you. Sincerely, Zorblax”.
Despite feeling weird about playing a teen, I’m really into Persona 4 Golden.