# How shocking would the biggest gov't secret be?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shocking-would-the-biggest-govt-secret-be/675900>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shocking-would-the-biggest-govt-secret-be/675900 "2013-12-09T16:17:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shocking-would-the-biggest-govt-secret-be/675900/41 "2013-12-11T15:55:41Z")

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> [@Habeed](#):
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> Wouldn’t it be a pretty negative discovery to find out the government had been keeping secret the existence of sentient alien life, interstellar travel, and whatever technological discoveries they found on the aliens’ spacecraft?

IMO, no. Not really. I think that “just knowing it’s possible” is all fine and dandy, but we still have to figure stuff out all of the underlying theories and principles on our own. Which I feel we’re going to do anyway. Eventually.

Remember the premise in “They Live”? Now that kind of government secret (that the self appointed “elite” in our society keep us ignorant of a greater interstellar neighborhood so that they can keep us under control and have all the goodies for themselves) would blow my socks off! [They Live (1988) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256)

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**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shocking-would-the-biggest-govt-secret-be/675900/42 "2013-12-11T16:23:46Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> Perhaps not actually running it, but I could easily believe that over the years the US federal government has given tacit permission to smuggle drugs into the US to various groups aiding the US’s national security interests.

Along these lines, I could easily believe that high-ranking government officials (possibly going right up to the president) have been getting kickbacks to hamstring the anti-drug efforts.

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**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-shocking-would-the-biggest-govt-secret-be/675900/43 "2013-12-12T00:35:32Z")

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> [@randompattern](#):
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> We all actually live in the Matrix …10

That’s what I was going to say, the other one would be that there is a god and the ruling class have been talking to him on how to run the world (he’s not a nice god though)

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