The level of mental and emotional steeling myself that I did before clicking the play button on that, only to be delightfully relieved.

If it involves something Musk promised, it's more of a dystopian nightmare.

Imagine someone never having seen the X-Files...

Um, nothing? And I hate to burst your bubble, but there is no "reveal themselves" in this reality.

IF intelligent ETs exist or have ever existed, it's very likely we won't know, as a species, for several more centuries. If not a few millennia.

And the idea that governments could keep that knowledge under wraps, globally and for the last century or two of looking out into space is just some premium grade X-Files fiction.

Fusion and especially miniaturized fusion reactors, powering everything from spaceships to cars.

He was also a smuggler who took part in a racist false flag attack on Boston Harbor all because the British had undercut smuggler prices on tea by lowering the taxes.

I saw a young band playing live doing original music and one of the guys brought out an accordion. I thought they were going to do some kind of jokey polka thing and instead they launched into this dreamy ballad with the accordion, a slow drum, and light guitar.

A well-played, somber accordion.