So the Aurora gunman, James Holmes' dad, his name was Robert Holmes. He testified at his son's trial, and in the course of the investigation, a lot of information became publicly available about him. He was a retired financial analyst working in the field of credit card for. NASA! He was a NASA financial credit analyst. He did not work for NASA in mind melding or whatever the fuck Alex is rambling about.

So this other Robert Holmes was so good at watching the skies that NASA gave him a grant to do it full-time so he could quit his day job, which led to a lot of feel-good press around it because it was this guy who just was passionate about astronomy. Right. And NASA was like, you're so good at this. We want you to be able to do it on your own, but as a job, which is so cool.