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I looked down and [realized] the back was filling up with water and I wasn't able to move forward.

That might be the worst part of it. Yes, the prospect of the plane crashing would terrify me, but being trapped inside with a hundred other panicking people while it filled slowly with water is the stuff of living nightmares.

Video game company. MMOs. Users/players from across the country. Sometimes they get to know the employee moderators.

One guy became enamored with a mod. Extremely. Flew across the country and was caught hanging out at our office. He tried to tailgate into the building. He was caught, arrested, and a restraining order was put in place.

Our security was beefed up. Conferences. Email reminders. Strict rules. We were warned not to let other people in with our ID badge, not even other employees we recognized. We were told not to be nice about it.

So one day I'm entering the building, and arriving just ahead of another person. He was an older Mexican guy. I'm not. I swear it felt so inappropriate asking him if he had a keycard and telling him that I couldn't let him in. He did not have a key card.

Luckily I was rescued - just as I'm basically telling him that I have to lock him out, a receptionist stationed near the door was returning to her post from elsewhere. She identified him, and I got to let him in. Turns out he was contracted to do some work around the building, so he was legit.

I chatted with HR. They agreed that I absolutely did the right thing, and also agreed that it can be hard to do. It's socially awkward. It even introduced the possibility of taboo (was I being racist to lock out the Mexican guy?).

Sometimes the fight against social engineering is just plain uncomfortable. And the bad guys are leveraging this.

Yup, and this is what I'm calling it regardless of what OP intended.

I don't know if I have the patience to wait for that.

It's longer than you think.

Actually, even if that guy was right, even if Buzz never went to the moon, how does that make him a coward? Even by his mindset, Buzz would not qualify as a coward.