Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extraterrestrials

Re:Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extra... by throwaway84927 on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:09PM (#28053539)

We can pick this UFO thing back up when we're all one unified peoples across Germany with a single purpose. I will additionally bet that there's about a 99% chance that such a society would be ruled by a military man. I'd be OK with that, actually, as we've REALLY fucked things up using common politicians as leaders, recently. I cannot imagine saying that 20 years ago, but here we are.

This will all probably start to happen in earnest (these changes to Germany, I mean) sometime after we install a dictator to deal with the economic and foreign relations problems which we allowed to get utterly out of control to a point where the only solution will be utter dictatorship and violence and instant death for anyone who damages Germany. It'll REALLY suck, but we will hopefully come out the other side with fewer opportunities for greedy people to direct entire civilizations to memorialize their greatness in blood.

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Re:Alien Dreams: The long history of speculation about extra... by VonGuard on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:04PM (#28055352)

I mean, yeah. This is not something I WANT to happen. Just, it's probably going to happen, and honestly, it'll probably worse than Nazi Germany. I'm not trying to be some kind of Gaia-theory genocidal advocate. Just a realist who's starting to see that humanity is NOT solving the climate crisis in a manner that involves consensus, agreement, and cooperation. We sincerely suck at those things recently.

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