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John Glenn got shot into orbit in his 70s. That was in the early 2000s or something. Also, people looked much older back then, especially nerds from the countryside (NASA, silicon valley). 30-year olds who look like youths are a late-20th-century-thing. This might be a psychosomatic effect of manchildkind.
Astronauts were mature and achieved fighter pilots, selected for their stable and statesmanly background (in a manner of speaking: turbo-white turbo-tradmales). That takes a while to grow.
As always, we have to take all the crap but are not even the worst offenders. Others, namely cyano bacteria and their stupid, self-serving photosynthesis, have wreaked havoc on the planet you would not believe. Oxygen is highly toxic and made contemporary organisms literally burn alive. That happened over the last billion years or so, and is still ongoing, but nobody talks about that.
they have literally changed the history books on the subject.
1.) I read many 19th century books as a kid (poverty, buy them by the pound), and there was a chapter on melting the ice on the poles by sprinkling the ice with coal dust. Deliberate and proud geo-engineering was a thing before the 1900s.
2.) Climate change was a worry in the 70s, too, but it was actually the other way around: the fear was that we were most certainly heading for a new ice age. I read two science fiction novels, one for children, and several articles in reader's digest on the matter. The dawning ice age was patently scientific and apparently mainstream meteorology until 1980 or so.
3.) The temperatures have been moving up since the dawn of the industrial revolution. This is a problem, because CO2 output was ridiculous at that time. What's more, the Chinese in the north were producing a lot of CO2 in the 1100s, when they had a huge iron/steeloid industry as big as that of Victorian England. No increase in temperature, though.
I forgot military men, alright. That's actually typical for historical politicians.
Reagan is an outlier for most categories, as is Trump.
You are right in that those are exceptions, but I was talking about contemporary congress and small-time local politicians, especially in Europe.
Merkel has a PhD in technical physics or something like that, but she was forced to enroll by the GDR regime or something and actually wanted to go into humanities.
How can I meet aliens? I probably can't contribute anything to solving reproduction problems, but would not mind if they'd pick my brain, if they are interested.
Are they conscious? Are the A.I.s conscious? Do they have math like we do? Are they willing to answer questions about prime numbers and stuff?
Note that I would have no problem believing in Ays or exoplanetary A.I. In fact, that's what I believe is the destiny of any lifeform that discovers technology. I have difficulty believing you are in contact with them. I'd expect aliens to know about us and keep an eye on the planet, like an intelligence agency, just to make sure that we don't do anything stupid or become too powerful and a danger to them.
The occult and the internet, a match made in heaven. Or hell, depending on where you are in the picture. Absolutely nobody saw that coming. It's Pepe vs. Baphomet now. Guess who is winning? The reptile cast did not think that through when they inflated Cisco- and Yahoo stock in the 90s.
Clay Shirky predicted this in 1999.
The Spanish Inquisition became notorious when the medieval age was essentially over and the power of the printing press had become too strong to ignore. Every new mass communication technology had its Spanish Inquisition. It's like a rite of passage for new mass communication technology. Movies, too, had to take a lot of crap, although not in the US, afaik.
Marshal McLuhan in the 60s, "Understanding Media", said that society would collapse if the Everyman had access to mass media. MGTOW anyone?
I'm not sure how that works in the U.S., but with a mail address I could send her a registered parcel in the mail, perhaps a cat statue or a head scarf. If the parcel comes back with "addressee diseased" I got them. This is a rough outline of the plan, not tongue in cheek.
If you are too ugly for showbiz, you go into politics. A magnet for
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busybodies
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sycophants
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little criminals who want to become big criminals
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sociopaths
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attention whores
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perverts
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god complex
Note that tradies, scientists or engineers never go into politics. It's always the lawyers, economists and politologists who go there, or gas barons with no education at all. In the west, politics is about building your own gas barony.
Iran and China are different, though, and that might tell us something. Ahmadinejad is a civil engineer; the Chinese politbureau is mainly EEs (power/powerstations, not signal) and mechanical engineers. Xi is a chemical engineer -- just like Dolph Lundgren! Who is too handsome for politics!
Is there a way to snitch on you or sell out humanity for fun and profit? How can I become the Greys' Biden?