Reading the commentary from around the net, I can’t believe how much nuttiness this has exposed. Sure, I was expecting some, but not like this. Easily half of what I’m hearing is straight-up tinfoil hattery.
I just read a thread (not on FR) where somebody was seriously arguing that there was an unseen nuclear war being waged all around us. He was serious. It wasn’t some kind of metaphor, he meant actual millions of dead nuclear war.
I remember when I was a kid in California, probably 9 or so in the late Sixties, I saw a big blot appear in the sky roughly due south of the SF Bay Area. I had no idea what it was. I started asking adults. I got a variety of explanations. The nutty ones didn’t sound right. I accepted that it was an atmospheric test of some sort involving some substance being released at high altitude from a missile, probably launched from Vandenberg AFB. Later in life I found that yes, it was exactly that.
What I’m getting at here is that we’re surrounded by screwballs who don’t have the computational power of an average nine year old and will go to pieces if something serious actually does happen. I mean yeah I knew that, but I didn’t think that it was on the order of half of the population.
It’s the Kardashian generation. Those twits were going on about UFOs and generally freaking out as they live-tweeted the event.
Morons.
Half the population is below average.
Never forget this fact.