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Subject: Re: alien contact
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Date: 3 Apr 89 18:36:45 GMT
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Reply-To: eschbach@helium.UUCP (Reiner Eschbach)
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In answer to Henry Spencer's reply to Matthew DeLuca's reasoning of 'whom
would aliens contact' Matthew writes about Henry's 'Disclaimer'
  >>Welcome to Mars!  Your         |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
  >>passport and visa, comrade?    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry
From: eschbach@helium.uucp (Reiner Eschbach)
Path: helium!eschbach

  >How are they going to ask for passports and visas?  They can't even get the 
  >customs station to work properly!

  >Matthew DeLuca Georgia Institute of Tech. (I put this in)

Matthew, I know you have never been to Europe, and for that matter most
probably never to the USSR. Let me tell you, their customs and passport/visa
stations DO work. Try to cross the soviet border by car. If somebody is
thorough, they are. How does 4 cars in three hours sound? And that is only one
out of a handful checks ( I have to admit, the other checks are indeed faster)

If you ever get a chance to visit Helsinki, try to make a 'short' trip to
Leningrad. It's an adventure.

Anyway, you are not making a strong case for american supremacy by ignoring 
reasonable arguments made by several people on the net.

Yes, I do live in the US. Yes, I think it's a good place. But it's not the
only good place and it's not the only civilized place. And yes, I plan to stay
here. In part because it has so few roads, so few bridges, so few buildings, so
much untouched nature, so many 'uncivilized' (= unspoiled) places.

Reiner

Disclaimer: Don't expect my boss to know what I'm talking about. I don't even
	    know myself.