Under testimony, Dr. Carol Rosin stated the following about what Von Braun told her:
“The enemy at first he said, the enemy against whom we’re going to build a space based weapons system... First the Russians are going to be considered the enemy... then terrorists would be identified and that was soon to follow... then we were going to identify third world crazies, we now call them nations of concern. [...] The next enemy was asteroids... [and] against asteroids we’re going to build space based weapons.
And the funniest one of all, was against what he called aliens, or extraterrestrials, that would be the final card. And over, and over, and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.
‘And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens,’ and all of it, he said, is a lie.”
Good sci-fi movie prompt, now I'm imagining interstellar checkpoints where human vessels have to show space papers for everyone, and there's a scene where some giant lasers destroy a cargo crate after the scanners find a jew trying to stow away.
Gene Roddenberry was a government contractor in the right place at the right time. The Star Trek franchise is based on first contact with a consortium of species who are not supposed to interact with primitive civilizations like us until we reach "warp capabilities", but in fact, the prime directive refers to "atomic power". They probably contacted the Germans first back in the 30s.
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Keep that in mind
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“The enemy at first he said, the enemy against whom we’re going to build a space based weapons system... First the Russians are going to be considered the enemy... then terrorists would be identified and that was soon to follow... then we were going to identify third world crazies, we now call them nations of concern. [...] The next enemy was asteroids... [and] against asteroids we’re going to build space based weapons.
And the funniest one of all, was against what he called aliens, or extraterrestrials, that would be the final card. And over, and over, and over during the four years that I knew him and was giving his speeches for him, he would bring up that last card.
‘And remember Carol, the last card is the alien card. We’re going to have to build space based weapons against aliens,’ and all of it, he said, is a lie.”
watch?v=gP8ftWzFYI4
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The Star Trek franchise is based on first contact with a consortium of species who are not supposed to interact with primitive civilizations like us until we reach "warp capabilities", but in fact, the prime directive refers to "atomic power".
They probably contacted the Germans first back in the 30s.