This hasn’t been the best week for NASA. First off, the sixth man on the Moon, Edgar Mitchell, went on a UK radio show, and almost made the announcer wet his pants with the news that “We Are Not Alone!” No, seriously, “WE ARE NOT ALONE!” Mitchell claims that the government of the United States has known about alien life, has been in contact with alien life, and has been covering it up for some 60 years. When asked what they looked like, Mitchell basically said, they look how they are portrayed in popular culture. How does Mitchell know all this? Well, because someone “told” him. Oh, Mitchell says not to worry. They’re really friendly little guys. If they wanted to blow us off the face of the Earth, they would have, because their technology is thousands of years ahead of ours. I assume they are responsible for Velcro, and those cheesy polyester disco suits? Oh, and spandex.
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Now, it seems another astronaut has opened his mouth, much to the chagrin of NASA officials. Gizmodo.com reports:
When you listen to Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart talk about the US government’s current approach to deflecting ELE asteroids away from Earth, you’d be excused for thinking the great minds at NASA had watched Armageddon a few too many times. That’s because NASA’s preferred method, as outlined in a 2007 report, is to blast threatening asteroids out of the sky with nuclear weapons.
Unlike our good friend, Edgar Mitchell, Schweickart never went to the Moon. Instead, he commanded the Lunar Module on test flights in Low Earth Orbit, for ten days on Apollo 9. However, Schweickart is claiming that NASA’s plan to divert asteroids with nukes has a sinister dark side to it. He claims it’s a government plot to weaponize space. Which begs the question, “Against who? Or what?” Oh, the conspiracy nutters are going to have a field day with this.
Well, at least NASA can take heart that none of their astronauts drove half-way across the country wearing diapers, in order to try and kill a rival astronaut in a bizarre love triangle. There’s always next week.
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