rant · moment 12 of 12
No Sympathy for Kidnapped Secret Scientists
from Melania’s Humanoid, Missing Scientists, & A Podcast Scam | The Tim Dillon Show #489 · #489
9 min
Tim argues that scientists and researchers who work on classified alien-tech or weapons programs deep underground have no right to complain if they get kidnapped or killed, since they chose an 'interesting life,' contrasting this with sympathy for ordinary bystanders, and closes imagining an alien coworker complaining about Israel.
- Tim's position: if you get kidnapped while working on secret government projects, that's a consequence of your choices.
- Top secret scientists at Los Alamos losing their security clearance due to financial trouble makes them targets for blackmail.
- Every movie features a broke genius—the guy with no money who's still a genius eventually sent to space.
- Tim refuses to feel sympathy for kidnapped scientists who chose an interesting life working on classified projects.
- Life can get too interesting: people want stakes and meaning, but interesting can cross into kidnapping and underground labs.
- Astrophysicist Nuno Loureiro was killed at his home in Boston by a former classmate over a science disagreement.
- Working with particles and electrons in secret government labs inevitably leads to kidnapping—it's part of the job.
- Interesting life is getting tortured by the Chinese to give up spacecraft secrets; the boring life is eating goat cheese salad in Boca.
- Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair was shot on his front porch after contributing to the discovery of water on a distant planet.
- Tim's assessment: getting shot on the porch is what being a genius is—it's the nature of the work.
- Tim won't cry for someone snatched from a secret lab; that's their journey, and he hopes the government wins the technology race.
- Secret government astrophysicists have made their bed and don't deserve sympathy the way a Walmart worker shot by a homeless person does.
- Tim has no sympathy for scientists in Area 51 standing next to aliens, fiddling with ships that crashed decades ago.
- Tim jokes that scientists better have results if they're working on a super secret alien program in an underground base.
- The U.S. is also kidnapping people trying to steal this information, and may have already kidnapped these scientists—who knows what's happening.
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