Almost a decade ago. Was too silenced the whole time to be able to do anything.

I never got to do this when this happened to me, but I have a rare-ish name that I pronounce in an unusual way compared to other people who have the same name, and if I pronounce my name correctly, that’s what everyone for some reason agrees on anticipating as the official signal that I’m in distress.

True, but it’s Betelgeuse that might go supernova in our lifetime.

And there better not be clouds in the sky like there is any other time there’s a show in the sky here, or I might be investing in weather modification.

I’d have to give credit to amateur videos about economics for helping me understand it better than actual experts giving expert lectures on it.

Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker. Because they had to fix some kind of time paradox I guess, a fix that had MJ marry an artist and have two more kids with him than she had with Peter.

Onions.

I have a few. Three are actors (for Xena, Hercules, and Power Rangers respectively; for Power Rangers it’s not the main character but Jason David Frank, RIP). One is the author Samantha Hooker, and there is uncertainty over whether there’s a second author.

I win the lottery and buy the country of Pitcairn Island. That would be my perfect Sunday.

My perfect normal Sunday is where, after church, I have the day off, can interact with people as I please, and I don’t have artist block.

Staying up/out past my bedtime.

There is more to it than that when I look at this. 1969 was a year more about national pomp than capabilities and when suspicion was no object to anyone. In hindsight, the cold war plays out like a really bad argument between two entities, and the circumstances take so many twists and turns, with money and politics being all over the place because that was the big hurdle, even more than anyone’s abilities. For something so important, NASA didn’t even bother to preserve the original tapes.

I internally rationalize the argument the same way I internalize how to go about any conflict I have been involved in, which leads me to, at best, take an agnostic approach on whether it happened. I also think to myself “wait, so French Polynesia was being blasted into smithereens, civil rights was still in its infancy, and there were several crises going on in the world at that moment, yet it’s the moon landings funded by the citizens that got people going”, so all in all, I just consider the incentive low.

Yeah, we recorded it using its species’ greeting system and it went out of its way to come to the researchers to say hi.

It depends on what you mean by “similar to humans”. There are levels to communication and we already know they’re quite far up the hierarchy, even if not on the same level as us.

There are so many. The question isn’t where are the sources at this point, it’s where aren’t they? I would encourage looking it up even if only for that reason.

AI designed to detect communication have confirmed once and for all that dolphins have experience with language, with a dictionary of their communications currently in progress. Probably was the reasoning behind the most fun question serial that was touched upon by the Q&A community before, you know, the initiator was banned from it for verifiably untrue reasons and had to pass the torch. RIP our own little Dr. Dolittle.

It’s not just about how well the footage holds up (as most sources focus on), it’s about the circumstances surrounding it, being towards the end of the deception-focused cold war. If you subjected it to a proper due process, it would be ambiguous given all the objections.

As someone who can tell you a bit about that stuff, I have other reasons, though you say that like anyone would wish to convert you regarding that (at least as much as others wish to take that approach with us). This is just me answering the question “what conspiracy theory do you kinda believe”.

Realizing that most kids who saw Illumination’s Mario movie think it’s the first Mario movie.

Federate your self-expression.

I can fulfill that role.