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From: dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?
Message-ID: <388@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Apr 89 07:37:09 GMT
References: <03.Apr.89.15:41:42.BST.ZZASSGL@UK.AC.UMRCC.CMS>
Reply-To: dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Daniel McGurl)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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After reading this wonderful debate on who the "aliens" would contact first
I was rather suprised that no one mentioned what I thought was the obvious
answer (assuming that the knew a good bit about the Earth).  It seems to me
that the most likely event would be for them to "announce" themselves to
the world at large.  If they are as intelligent as the netters are giving
them credit for, they would know the political implications of landing at
any one place.  And if they are not friendly?  Seems to me a few select tac
nukes (or similar things) would be enough to make the Earth quite dead.  Think
what would happen if 5-10 American (or Russian) cities went up into a mushroom
cloud.  Anyone think that we (or the Russians) would believe it's spacers 
dropping these nukes?  I somehow doubt it...


-- 
Daniel Sean McGurl                       "He's got to make his own mistakes,
Office of Computing Services              and learn to mend the mess he makes."
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta Georgia, 30332                                ARPA: dsm@prism.gatech.edu