Well, the Brookings Report made by the institute of the same name, pretty much stated scientists and engineers would be devastated the most. With the massive egos I've seen in the mainstream scientific world, be it from energy to archeology, they'd, like my grandma used to say, "rather be correct than happy".
And many religions, the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslims, the Dogan, the Zuni, the Hopi....they talk about visitations from 'men from the stars'.....several of these aforementioned groups are even specific in that these 'star people' came from Sirius. It's always a treat for me when I visit some of my friends in the reservations out west, listening to the tribal elders about them. Also, the Muslims are one of the strongest supports in the belief in alien life, hell, it's even talked about in the Koran...not only in alien life, but it being intelligent, alien life. Plus the Apocrypha conveniently left out of the bible. Also, the book of Enoch, which is hardly discussed in the mainstream, sounds sooooo much like an alien visitation, even mentioning the shape of the Earth. Also, the book of Ezekiel sounds like, to me, a UFO sighting and landing....and a NASA scientist, complete with a technical analysis. Joe Blumrich of NASA researched it, trying to debunk it, but in the end, he made a 180 turn on that and is convince it happened.
http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/josef-blumrich-article_by.html Even the Vatican, 5 years ago, stated that existence of of extra terrestrial life does not negate the existence of god. The only 2 groups I know that have a problem with alien life are bible belt Christians and Evangelicals....and even many of them are saying the opposite, now. So the whole idea of the religious folks going ballistic regarding alien life is pretty much not even an issue anymore.
Anyhow, on to some more pictures.
Found this nice mesh online tonight.
Would make a nice Tal'Shair vessel, I think.
I found this one and wanted to make a story of it and I came up with the idea that, between TOS and Phase Two/TMP, Starfleet were working on a new breed of smaller ship, a Starfleet fighter craft if you will. A few were being developed, but over time, as relations with the Klingons getting less unpleasant, and things were slowly getting more peaceful, the fighters were stashed away. Now, in the 2390's, with folks like the Dominion, the Borg and nincompoops like Nero, Starfleet opens up the vaults, dusted off the old prototypes and are considering making newer, up to date models, but first the old ones would need a good test run. The crew, here, get chosen to do the tests for 2 main reasons:
1: Since they are out in deep space, in the middle of nowhere, the damage won't be as bad should something go wrong, and out of prying eyes of the Romulans and other folks.
2: Starfleet knew that if the fighters would be discovered by hostile forces, the Vulcan engineers who made them decided the best way to prevent such a theft would be to make it pretty much impossible to fly them out out of the hangers/lab, let alone fly them back home. Therefore the Vulcans, working on the thought controlled systems, the key element to making the fighters so fast responding, made it that the computers would only recognize thoughts in Vulcan, not any others, and with a Vulcan captain, the crew, along with them being in the middle of nowhere, were snapped up to test these.
I have this fighter hull a custom name and number
"Doc" going over a few last minute checks with the captain before the two of them test out the Cydonia. Note the helmet, which is the interface unit for the pilot and the computer. This is pretty much a homage to one of my favorite films,
Firefox, as well as a few ideas I was working on.
Just a more expansive shot to give a sense of size for the fighter, plus I wondered what the cargo bay might be like on bulkier ships, like Constellations and Soyuz.
Enjoy the weekend!
) full of notes and all that. My findings just happen to coincide with the findings of several alternative researchers. And it's it's 'quackery' as you put it, then why do I see so many people talking about such issues, in public, more than ever before? And think about this....out solar system is the bratty young kid in the neighborhood, with neighboring systems billions of years older....if there's anyone there, they could be millions, if not billions, of years ahead of us...in science and spirituality (with any powerful technology, you need wisdom in order to use it right, otherwise it will only cause more bad than good. And my studies of witnesses who claim to have met people from other worlds say that we need to be spiritually balanced, we are not wise enough to handle what we got already.....hell, my studies of the early 50's make me want to piss on Eisenhower's grave, I tell you what) 
And like I said, comic books are no different....buff burly men in costumes so tight you can tell what religion they are and amazon women dressed up like a dominatrix are pretty much the key ingredients Marvel and DC comics. 
