I should also add — General Semantics has a saying “the map is not the territory”. Which is to say that if you wander in the wilderness and come up to a river, that river is the reality. Clearly, the river is in front of you. It does no good at all to hold your map and say “This map says the river isn’t here”. But some people will absolutely deny the reality before them in favor of the idea in their head. As the Democrats say: We choose Truth over facts.
Isn't he the officer in charge of the new U.S. Space Force?;-)
You know...the guy who came up with the acronyms UAP and UUP (Unidentified Undersea Phenomena--which plummet into the sea from low earth orbit).
Another example of the same: “But my GPS says!” which of course means you can ignore everything in front of you and just keep driving forward because everyone knows the gps is never wrong.
Of course the map is not the territory, but don’t try working the territory without a map. You won’t have friends.