Socks may be used as coffee filters. If they are white socks, their use as a coffee filter effectively eliminates the problem with sweat stains.

Sorry I'm so late to this thread. As a PGDA I was in a lengthy subspace conversation with Lrrr of Omicron Persei Eight. It seems he wants more hippies.

Re the OP, sure NASA, the United States government, even Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, could try to cover up a received alien transmission, for whatever reason, including trying to keep humanity from panicking. But the odds of their success in doing so, based on past efforts and their track records, are very small.

Then there's the other aspect of this, which is whether such a cover up policy exists. Having worked in aerospace industries, and known numerous "higher ups" in various related organizations, including NASA, since the 1970s, all the evidence I have personally accumulated indicates that it doesn't. This jibes quite well with all the other information made available by these organizations and their watchdogs over the years.

But if a person has a strong desire, for whatever reason, to be paranoid about such things, then it's likely no amount of verifiable objective evidence will sway that person from their suspicions.

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