Strange how the whole world can pull together when someone gets into trouble and put mighty effort into helping them out. Then afterward regardless of result return to the usual petty but deadly behaviour of the human species as if nothing had happened.
George Santayana was right. We don't learn.
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Corporal Hicks
(Actually Ripley said it first.)
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