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From: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: sci.space,talk.rumors,misc.headlines
Subject: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Summary: aliens talking to the government only?
Keywords: aliens, shuttle, contact
Message-ID: <1973@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 05:00:00 GMT
References: <4440@drivax.UUCP> <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU> <355@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: edhew@egvideo.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Followup-To: talk.rumors
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Organization: A Xenix Box in the Basement, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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The original article I'm referring to suggested a possible sighting by
the most recent space shuttle crew of an alien spacecraft resulting in
transmissions picked up by a RadioShack scanner but mysteriously missing
from the official NASA tapes ...... or so it goes ....

In article <355@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (Stuart Warmink) writes:
>In article <7751@pyr.gatech.EDU>, ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca) writes (much other stuff removed):
>> 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.  
>
>Ah, but who said they would want to contact the US government!   :->
>("Wellcome, Comrad Alien")

.... and just why would any self-respecting "alien" want to talk to any
particular terrestrial government at all?  It seems that earthly governments
tend to range from the paranoid to the crazy, with a peripheral fringe of
the merely self-centred.  Governments, by their very nature, tend to be
composed of individuals who are either elected or serving those elected
officials who arrange suitable salaries for "civil servents" (I really
have trouble with the embeded dual dichotomy of that phrase).

Why any self-respecting extraterrestrial would want to talk to the leader
of a "free world" country, a communist country, or an islamic leader who
pronounces death sentances on authors of fiction is totally beyond me.
Any rational being might be predisposed to recognise that contact with
a new species would be best made through those involved in the scientific
community and search this out.  At the very least, they'd be more likely
to want to contact to someone in a space vehicle than in a legislature,
palace, temple, or military barracks.	--ed	{edhew@egvideo.uucp}

>AN ANTIMATTER SHORTAGE"  ("WHAT'S NEW")  | sw@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (att!cbnewsl!sw)

  Ed. A. Hew
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