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<\/a><\/div>\nOne supposes that when one’s father stars in so many movies featuring extraterrestrial threats, it might be easy to assume that aliens are, in fact, the real deal. And who better to confirm this t…<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Can we just acknowledge that, regardless of anyone’s political views about the man, Barack Obama has done more for nerds and sci fi in the White House than any other President? Wouldn’t be surprised if he dropped in on Agent J in MiB 3, a’la Michael Jackson. Blastr: Will Smith’s kid asked Obama about aliens. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[82,4,62,116,3],"tags":[402,204,9,324,400,401],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n