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From: ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Message-ID: <7787@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 31 Mar 89 14:54:24 GMT
References: <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <10245@nsc.nsc.com>
Reply-To: ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <10245@nsc.nsc.com> ken@nsc.nsc.com (Ken Trant) writes:
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>article <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) says:
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>% any *real* aliens would make contact with government officials, 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.  
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> We should have talked to you for the best information on alien encounters
>since you apparently know exactly what is needed, who the aliens would talk
>to.  BTW which govt have the ET's decided to contact when the get here?. 
>Maybe they are democrates and are waiting to talk to the Congress?. :-)

C'mon, think about it.  You're an alien, attempting to make a friendly contact
with Earth.  How would you do it?  Assume you have a basic knowledge about
the political and social structure of the planet.  You could (1) tell Dan
Rather.  Well, remember what happened in 1938, with the War of the Worlds
broadcast?  Panic across the Northeast United States.  Humanity tends to be
an irrational crowd at times, and with the recent (over the last few years)
spate of nasty alien movies, we night very well have a repeat.  If I was an
alien (actually, the allegation haas been made  :-), I would start from the 
top down.  I think that the population as a whole would take the news better
from the government than from Dan Rather.

As to who the aliens would contact...well, where would the best place be?  I
would vote for the United States, because (1) by almost any standard, we are 
the most advanced nation on earth, and (2) the U.N. (for all it's worth) is
located here, which (I assume, of course) would be an important location to
the aliens, since it is the closest thing we have to anything resembling a
world government.  

Of course, I were the alien, I would come back in about a century; I don't thinkwe're really ready to deal with aliens.  A previous poster mentioned that this
is not really the appropriate place for this discussion, so if anyone cares 
to continue it, send me mail.



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