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From: neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall)
Newsgroups: sci.space,rec.ham-radio,talk.rumors,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Summary: April Foolishness???
Message-ID: <5373@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 23:09:21 GMT
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Reply-To: neal@lynx.UUCP (Neal Woodall)
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In article <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes:

>More likely, if an alien ship
>did appear near the shuttle, the crew would turn around and head for home, under
>orders from the ground, since they're not equipped for alien contact.

I thought this whole thing was some kind of early April Fool's joke, but now
this! What do you mean "not equipped for alien contact." (maybe you have been
reading too much science fiction) I didn't know that our government or space
program even had any "rules" for alien contact, much less that they have
special "equipped for alien contact" shuttles!

>Finally, *real* aliens would make contact with government officials

Don't you think that they would seek out some more intelligent examples of our
species?

>and we can assume that this didn't happen, since at last check, Bush was at
>some elementary school, talking about U.S. drug policy.

Like I said, why not some more intelligent examples of our species (or maybe
they communicate by reading lips! :-)?

Cheers,


Neal