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kolacek
04/21/09

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A majority of the people on this planet sincerely believe that there is some sort of anthropomorphic deity [or deities] sitting on a throne and deciding who's been naughty or nice.

Can you imagine the pathological mayhem that would ensue if - whoops - there is life [humanoid or otherwise] on other worlds?

"Uhhm...sorry every person ever killed in the name of [insert god]. We sort of messed up."

Control of secret knowledge has historically been how the ruling class in any civilizations has kept its exclusive grip on power and controlled the masses.

Crowd Control 101.

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Grey_Area
04/21/09

@kolacek: Control of secret knowledge has historically been how the ruling class in any civilizations has kept its exclusive grip on power and controlled the masses.

Could you provide some examples of this?
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
04/21/09

@kolacek: As we learned from Dan Brown, the Church would co-opt any "aliens", and find a way to work it into the bible through a Bible Code, and say they knew it all along and everything is OK!
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Grey_Area
04/21/09

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The only thing dopier than the anally-fixated Grays is the idea of a Government competent enough to keep all this hidden. What, so the decades of elected nincompoops and bumbling bureaucracy all around the world is just a cover for some cabal of hyperefficient technocrats whose security is so badass it can only be broken by schizoid mouthbreathers?
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
04/21/09

@Grey_Area: But there's just so many people involved, that they have to be able to keep a secret. At least that's what I get from Alex Jones. It's in the mainstream media folks, Google it!(I'd like to count how many times he tells his audience to "Google _____" in each show. Sometimes it's funny to hear the other side.").
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MarlboroTestMonkey7
04/21/09

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I wonder when the Obama administration will finally disclose the info.
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
04/21/09

@MarlboroTestMonkey7: They won't, but Bo will capitalize on his media fame to expose the truth, as dogs are superior to us man-animals.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
04/21/09

@MarlboroTestMonkey7: You think "They" have told Obama about the aliens? Pfff. No way.
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bluehinter
04/21/09

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I'd love to believe in little grey aliens who have been visiting Earth for years, yet managed to leave *no* physical trace of their presence whatsoever, beyond a few blurry photos of streetlamps and a funny feeling when I try to sit down.

That's not to say I don't believe in the existance of other life. The universe is a very large and very old place. I'm sure somewhere in it's infinite vastness, there's another civilization of sentient slime molds, and possibly even complex, evolved organisms like ourselves. Unfortunately, they're so far away, that direct contact (even if you could travel at the speed of light) is likely to be impossible.
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twDarkflame
04/21/09

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We are not alone in the universe, and unlikely in the galaxy.

But I dont think its likely we are found, recognised, and even less so that if we would have been visted.

"The stories of a UFO crash "were confirmed," "

Yes, something was confirmed as unidentified...that is not the same as aliens. (when will people learn that).
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
04/21/09

@twDarkflame: Travel light years to get here, but the last 100 miles was too much for them to figure out. When I think of a spaceship traveling all that way and crashing, the scene of the whale from Hitchhiker's Guide pops into my head.
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Mathmos
04/21/09

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Here's a nice paranoid hypothesis: UFO's are actually inhabited by time travellers. Explains their similarity to humans and sometimes-reported sexual interest in humans. The gov't has captured some and is hiding the awful truth about our future.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/21/09

@Mathmos: George Lucas makes Star Wars sequels!
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Gann
04/21/09

@Mathmos: Why time travel? They're just a select breed of humans that have escaped our gravitational well and rule our sad little lives from the shadows.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
04/21/09

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Of course the government wants you to worry about aliens; they will even secretly confirm their existence. What they wont tell you about is the underwater psychic unicorn factory or that Orville Redenbacher, Macauly Caulking, and Sherlocke Holmes actually rule the world.
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
04/21/09

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For us to say we arnt alone is very egotistical and ignorant. We evolved as such, from the very essence that lives out in space..planets with their own suns..normal enough to sustain life however so great or small, advanced or non-advanced. Im no expert, and most UFO encounters are just hockum, that coupled with the crazys out there just make people sceptical!! But with more evidence coming back day in and day out from NASA and their telescopes, it looks like the endless-ness of space just might contain more intellegent beings than us...We have Big Brother, so most space dust is more intellegent!!
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DeltaGuy
04/21/09

@CoffinDodger: While it may be egotistical to state that there are no other forms of intelligent life in the universe, it is certainly valid to not believe that we have been visited by this life, and the US government is trying to cover it up.
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Fate'sBitch
04/21/09

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Yeah, but isn't this guy a little crazypants? He claims that he had cancer (which was never confirmed with a biopsy) and that his cancer was cured remotely by a healer who lives in Vancouver, for who knows how much.

I think maybe he wants to believe a little bit to much.
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Ed Grabianowski
04/21/09

@Fate'sBitch: Unfortunately, certain things on a resume create assumptions about a person's credibility that ain't necessarily so. Astronaut, physics professor, four-star general - they can all still be (or turn into) total nutjobs.

This is why I always get a laugh when some country bumpkin sheriff's deputy sees a UFO, and the stern narrator on "The UFO Files" describes him as a "trained observer."
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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
04/21/09

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Dude, what is he talking about? There's ninety million Star Trek fans practically creaming their pants at the thought of being part of an interplanetary community. The Japanese have an entire bureau of their government dedicated to opening friendly relationships with aliens.

What the hell are they waiting for?
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NerD: Blattella
04/21/09

@braak: 3 billion rabid religious fanatics convinced that we are special and that {insert Diety} is coming back to save us.

Abject terror, braak. That's why they wont admit this.
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
04/21/09

@NerD!!!: Oh, they believe in angels as well. Just get the Pope to say they really "are" the angels and they'll be on a novena candle in 10 minutes.
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turniptable
04/21/09

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I think the true question is when we finally make contact with alien life, will it be more like Star Trek first Contact, or Contact with Jodie foster?
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Pessimippopotamus
04/21/09

@turniptable: I'm hoping more of SG-1 and the Asgard.
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GitEmSteveDave_My Brute Dojo CDIAFIFE
04/21/09

@turniptable:

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