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NASA Administrator: We have no plan for aliens |
2021-09-05 |
[Hot Air] There are some big things happening this weekend related to the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force and congressional action associated with their work (more on that in a moment.) With this topic remaining in the news, I wanted to touch on the involvement of federal agencies in terms of identifying the various UFOs being seen by military pilots and others, along with how the United States (and the world) plans to respond in the event that at least some of these objects turn out to be of nonterrestrial origin. One agency that’s been increasingly involved in this research of late is NASA, which sort of makes sense since much of their business activities take place outside of our atmosphere. The person in charge there, former Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson is probably a good candidate to ask what’s going on and what sort of plans we have in place. During a fairly recent podcast hosted by PBS anchor Margaret Hoover this summer, Nelson actually had the question put to him directly. He first opined that he is quite confident there is other life in the universe. He also spoke of being briefed by military pilots who described things that we still can’t explain. But then Hoover took a very direct line, asking the NASA boss the one question that few have seemed to want to address. If some of these unidentified craft actually did turn out to be controlled by some extraterrestrial intelligence, do we have a plan in place as to what we would do next? Nelson was rather blunt about it. The answer is no. Fast forward to the 21-minute mark for this portion of the interview. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#14 The "Dreamer Fithp?" Seriously, what sort of planning could we do without some notion of their capabilities and communications? About the only thing you can do is specify that once we've determined that aliens are present, people with certain positions will drop what they were doing and become responsible for coordinating the "figure out what's going on" project. |
Posted by: james 2021-09-05 19:59 |
#13 Press: Allen agent ARRESTED, New method of service suggested! Burg: Mustn't be rude... And he might make good food... Hungry guest should be blessed and ingested. |
Posted by: Lemuel Trotsky2537 2021-09-05 17:46 |
#12 ^^^ Good one, Deacon. :) |
Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-09-05 15:38 |
#11 I did fill out my census form as "Martian" when asked for a category of what I am. |
Posted by: Deacon Blues 2021-09-05 14:55 |
#10 NASA also seems to have no plans for moving forward with their defined mission, space exploration. |
Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-05 11:39 |
#9 Um. In Papillion, a plan was a capsule a convict stuffed up his butt to hide something he wanted to keep. Seems apropos. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-05 09:41 |
#8 I'm certain Milley has a plan. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-05 09:19 |
#7 "Our mission at NASA is to make sure muzzists putting their piss rockets up a little boy's bum feel good about themselves..." |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-05 08:54 |
#6 --- To Serve Man Yum! |
Posted by: Spanky Omons4021 2021-09-05 08:42 |
#5 But Aliens have plans for you! That sounds a bit paranoid. As highly evolved beings, I'm sure they are here to serve man. |
Posted by: SteveS 2021-09-05 08:13 |
#4 I refuse to openly identify, but have a VA disability based on exposure to kryptonite. I too am concerned. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-05 06:34 |
#3 Senator Nelson, would you like a job in the DoD? Your skill set seems a perfect match to the modern DoD mission. |
Posted by: Vortigern McCoy4032 2021-09-05 05:32 |
#2 That's nice. I'm a Martian expat living on Earth. |
Posted by: Wren 2021-09-05 03:24 |
#1 But Aliens have plans for you! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-09-05 03:02 |