The biggest difference between 12/07/41 and 9/11/01 is that it was at a minimum a few hours before any and over 24 hours before the majority of the US population was aware of the Japanese attack...
We're very close in age, Puma. One of my first aviation jobs was working for a guy who had gone into the Air Force rather than roll the dice on the Pre-Viet Nam obligatory years of military service.
Cuban Missile Crisis comforting you say?
Bovine Excrement!!!
His last duty station was a SAC base and one night during that incident (of which very few living really understand how close we came to all out nuclear war) most of the guys on duty were on the ramp, watching the still glowing expended JATO packs dropping off the fully nuclear bomb armed B-47's, falling into the desert and looking at each other in absolute certainty that it was all over-though he was proud of the fact that only one of the many aircraft from his Wing had a mechanical issue and returned early!
Yes, we actually scrambled a large portion of the nuclear deterrent with orders to targets.
No one has publicly announced (to the best of my knowledge) why they were recalled...
If apes are going to evolve and take over, where are the little incremental changes that we have had time to observe? Could Darwin (as he admitted later was possible) have been wrong, that his theory is actually deeply flawed and big changes only pop up because of as of yet unknown reasons (The Hand of God for lack of a better expression) that causes just the right change to a population's DNA (DNA being code that the people of his time could barely begin to imagine though perhaps Darwin had a glimpse that caused him to have the later case of doubt).
Fossil fuels will eventually run out which has nothing to do with a fictional screenplay or two-might as well throw in A Space Oddity while we're at it, what the heck?
A different power source, a mass die out due to starvation on a global scale or perhaps an extinction level event courtesy of the cosmic or genetic shooting gallery...or maybe we'll be stupid enough to end it all ourselves!
The biggest issue facing mankind in the so called "developed" Western World is our lack of understanding just how fragile human life is, a denial of it's meaninglessness in the Universe and as individuals our own mortality...as if somehow everyone is destined to live out a long life and die completely fulfilled in old age...
That is perhaps the biggest lie of the humanist/socialist movement.
There's this "free will" clause in the Death and Taxes guarantee...
