[Quix]

Hogwash. Someone posts something askew from your construction on reality and you think of them as being in charge of the site!

There's always been wide diversity and curiosity hereon.

Actually, Jim prefers such things to be in chat. But, they are newsworthy on occasion, imho.

In any case, your charity is . . . greatly lacking, it seems to me.

[Frank_Discussion]

I don't think you took his comment correctly, Quix. I THINK he meant the site listed as a source.

[Finny]

FWIW, I'm reading a biography by one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Gordon Cooper. He is and has always been a deeply Christian man with great faith in God. He states flatly that the U.S. government has covered up the truth about UFOs, and that he, Gordon Cooper, saw them and chased them himself in fighter jets; knows dozens of highly placed, credible and trustworthy military folks who've seen UFOs; has one trusted friend who HANDLED the debris found at Roswell and swore to Cooper that there was no way possible that it was from a weather balloon; and that Cooper himself saw negatives of photographs taken by a team of professional photographers working for him at Edward AFB, of a UFO that landed some 50 yards away from them AT EDWARDS(!). Cooper immediately called a special number at the Pentagon to report the incident (before the photographers had done anything with their film), and was ordered to have the film developed, NOT TO HAVE PRINTS MADE, and to send it immediately to the Pentagon. Cooper said that while he had to follow orders about not having prints made, nothing was said about not looking at the negatives, so he peeked ... and was left with ZERO DOUBT as to what his photographers saw, as he, Cooper, had chased such objects often enough in the early 50s in Sabrejets.

Cooper notes in his book that he has never had a problem squaring science with religion, and that his observations as an astronaut and flyer have only increased his wonder at God's miracles and the ways He performs them. He wrote that it seemed pretty unlikely to him that God would create this vast universe and populate only the Earth with beings.

Through this book I've learned that one of my favorite movies, "The Right Stuff," did a diservice to both Gus Grissom and Cooper. The movie implies that there is still lingering doubt as to what caused the hatch to blow on Grissom's capsule, which sunk after splashdown, and leaves viewers with the idea that Grissom "screwed the pooch" by panicking; according to Cooper, NASA discovered a few weeks later that it was unquestionably a flaw in the hatch mechanism that was responsible for the accident. The movie also completely ignores Cooper's faith in God, giving the impression that he was at best indifferent to Christianity.