For me, it’s disappearing. That someday something will happen to me and no one will ever know what it was and where I am. That I will become one of those mysteries you see online and on TV shows. Whenever I think about it I feel nothing but dread.

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    3 hours ago

    Almost certainly not real… :)

    I think there is an extreamly high probability they are real, considering it’s been millions of eye witness reports by now.

    I guess it’s easier to assume every single one of those are just wrong. But if even one of them is right, we have visitors.

    I don’t even understand why people find it so difficult to believe. I keep hearing “yeah they can’t travel here because distance”, as if humans somehow has all the knowledge about space travel despite hardly even understanding how to get to the moon. :)

    Actually we even forgot how to get to the moon. That’s how much we care about space travel. Yet we are experts at it, somehow. :)

    It’s dumb, which is why I assume it has to do with psychological safety mechanisms and that’s why people can’t think rationally about this.

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      I read somewhere that so much of the Saturn V development wasn’t documented properly, or the documentation has been lost, that it’s hard to easily build that system anymore. In that sense, I guess, we’ve forgotten how to do it. Obviously, the math and physics are still understood, so it should be as simple as designing a rocket of equal or greater capacity, and it appears we have.

      Apparently, the Artemis I mission already put an unmanned mission with the Orion spacecraft through to orbit the moon and return safely to the Earth. They’re planning a crewed flyby in 2025 and Artemis III is projected to land sometime later this decade.

      It’s a crime I didn’t know that before looking things up about the Saturn V.