Yep, we're celebrating the fact that highly evolved lifeforms couldn't handle New Mexico traffic stops at night.
In seriousness, I grew up reading up the paranormal: I spent more time in the 133 shelves than the juvenile fiction. Flying Saucers for me was a mind-blowing thing. When The X-Files started I got hooked right off the bat. Part of me understands the sheer improbability of space travel - damn you, laws of physics - but the child in me hopes we are not alone in the universe and that there are enough nice - the ones that won't eat our brains - sentient beings to co-exist with us.
Of course, the guy at xkcd just has to point out something for the anniversary as well: with the spread of smartphones with cameras, trucks with dashboard cams, the immediacy of YouTube... the evidence of UFOs, Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot and ghosts hasn't kept up.
Which is actually kind of heart-breaking...
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