Cleared for Landing
You may have recently heard the news that NASA hired a bunch of religious leaders of varying stripes to advise on how their various flocks might react to an alien invasion. That sounds a lot like the U.S.’s official leader in space exploration has begun developing the ultimate crisis management plan for an impending global event. After a flurry of news stories and a related twitter storm, NASA denied hiring religious advisors saying it had simply funded a research group of religious scholars to look into alien encounters. But one is left wondering whether the intent was simply a scholarly exercise in comparative theology on a quirky topic or actual reconnaissance.
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