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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

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So I want to paint a picture for you in your mind about the world we live in today.

And when everyday life begins to resemble a sci-fi plot, everything just, I mean, the news headlines.

They always are telling us about news scientific breakthroughs that challenge our preexisting assumptions of the world.

And we've talked about a lot of those this week, okay, AI, embryos, you name it.

And these have been edge of your seat, new things to discuss and think about.

But the idea here about aliens, for example, that they might be walking among us.

For some reason, I get the feeling that doesn't seem to be all that strange to people anymore.

Even better, it poses a quasi-scientific police system that's literally endorsed by the government in NASA.

So does that take the coolness away from it?

The hitness, I don't even know what they call it anymore.

The takeaway, the charisma is the take away the novelty now that NASA and the government are strong holding the narrative with regard to UAP UFOs.

Because I get the general consensus.

I feel the general consensus when I went to contact in the desert in other places.

While they were still interested in what NASA had to say, still interested in what the government had to say, they certainly don't trust it.

They don't trust the data, they don't trust what they're telling us.

I mean, it's important to consider why these conversations are entering the mainstream now.

And it's not a coincidence that it's during a time when we have proposals to weaponize space, space tourism, all this on the rise.

And then conversations around AI and non-human intelligence, they're all reaching their peak and they're posing very real existential threats to this planet.

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