I know it's only tangentially connected, but I remember once reading something about the reason there have been so many sci-fi films and TV shows about aliens (ET, Close Encounters, The X-Files and so on) is that The Government is preparing us all for first contact with the real aliens. I facepalmed at the time, before I knew there was a term for it. Now I get the chance to do it all over again. I'm wondering just how widespread this sort of thing actually is.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
