Reality check: There is no evidence for "starships". There's no rumor in the rather incestuous and overlapped aerospace industry about such technology. There's no credible account of handling or testing of such super-advanced technology. There is not some vast gubmint conspiracy to hush up the existence of flying saucers - so airtight that no one has ever given credible evidence over the decades but the "Disclosure" guys can rant at will about it. The reason no one is being prosecuted for talking about UFOs in gubmint hands is because there are no UFOs in gubmint hands.

Reality check: Spaceflight is expensive and difficult (but will get somewhat easier and cheaper). Spaceflight is not like "Battlestar Galactica".

Reality check: There is no starship to hijack. If we want a starship, we have to build it ourselves.

The whole thing smacks of the "Egyptians were too dumb to build pyramids" idiocy. I'll just add:

"- People apparently under 20 with no real-world experience will continue to think they know it all."

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BTW, PW, you could add to your list of U.S. space firsts:
- 1st use of radioisotope generators in space (SNAP-3A on Transit 4B)
- 1st space reactor (SNAP-10A, 1965)
- 1st landing on an asteroid (NEAR)* (not designed for landing, but returned science data after it did)
- 1st probe into Jupiter's atmosphere (Galileo probe)
- 1st landing on a moon of another planet (Huygens)
- 1st autonomously guided spacecraft (Deep Space 1)
- 1st rover on Mars (Sojourner)
- 1st lunar orbit rendezvous (Apollo)
- 1st repair of a satellite in space (Challenger crew, 1984)
- 1st untethered spacewalk (Challenger crew, 1984)
- 1st sample return from a Comet (Genesis)