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September 13 - September 18, 2020
As far back as 2018 the US government had finally come clean, admitting it maintained a secret program to research and investigate UFOs, and released several videos of UFO encounters to the public.
Transparent aluminum was a revolutionary alloy that had first been created in 2016 by researchers at Oxford, although the concept had been introduced twenty years earlier in a Star Trek movie. It was much lighter than glass, and far stronger.
Most people don’t realize that EMPs come in all sizes and power levels.
“Is there anything aluminum can’t do?”
Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who’d imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth.”
More importantly, it made it clear that his biggest fear would not come to pass. He would not die a virgin.
Hahaha
“Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
never underestimate the ability of human beings to take things for granted, and find ways to be miserable. The truth is, even though we live in the best of times, most of us believe the opposite. That poverty, and literacy, and so on have gotten worse, even though they’ve gotten considerably better. This is actually a fairly recent phenomenon. Just in the last thirty years or so.”
“Every second, every day, a weight of news that is almost inconceivable. And those providing this news know that only the most dramatic will stand out. So we’re told the sky is falling a hundred times a day. And rather than discuss how far we’ve come, the dire problems we thought our way out of, we amplify every problem, every behavior that is less than perfect, into crisis proportions. Pessimism sells far better than optimism.”
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling.
