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Okay, so I can understand that someone sees something in the sky they don't immediately recognize. But how the hell does that mean they're alien spacecraft?
If there really were aliens around, I'm sure it would be pretty damn obvious. Like, you know, a 24 hour broadcast by Fox saying "OMFG ALIENS!". And the Sun coming out with the headlines like "VICTORIA BECKHAM TALKS WITH ALIENS IN THE NUDE".
And of course there are aliens somewhere. It's just utterly unlikely we'll ever meet them. And if we meet them, I'm sure it will be something more exciting than a blob of light in the sky.
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It will be as exciting as a medical conference in Helsinki, with some suits going up in orbit and negotiating with the envoy about traficking-lanes in the system, fiscal responsibilities re: Mars and the moon and then maybe in ten years they'll get back to us when envoy-b0i gets home.
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Yeah: I was thinking of the guy from BSG 1980 and Farscape. Kinda the same vibe there but JMV had less dramatic range than the dead guy (still does).
Really, the only reason I dont think the UFO/abduction thing deserves more credence is that the accounts of aliens is waaaaay too simmular to us for plausability: the same numbers of arms, legs eyes etc make ir unreal.
That's not to say that I can watch Communinon with the lights off. No way man: tah's some scary shit, there.
Seriously.
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Then there's the old "To Serve Man" theme from an OLD OLD either Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.
Aliens leave a book. Title is translated "To Serve Man". SuperIQ Dude scientist boards UFO to communicate with friendly aliens. Door shuts and UFO takes off. Man gets final communication from ground that the book is actually a recipe.
***Couldn't resist side joke***
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One looks at the other and asks: "Does this taste funny to you?"
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You know, with the number of people who spell it that way, I would have thought by now that I would have met someone who actually says "sim-yoo-lar". Yet, no.
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You mean MORE people spell it "simmular"!?! That's scary. Similar. Similarity. etc. Simmular sounds like some sort of simulation.
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TSN, I think that's because of the translation factor. I had a friend back in the early 90's who introduced me to Dune II, the sassy strategy game. While he was talking about it he mentioned the unit called "stage tank", which got me interested. Was it like a combined missile/cannon platform that could attack with different weapons depending on the range of the enemy? Or did it have two-stage rockets?
All those questions were laid to rest when we had gotten far enough in the game to build that tank, where I saw that it was called "Siege Tank". My friend's brain simply locked out the "Sieg"-part because he didn't understand it. I talked to him for a while about Stalingrad and Poland in 1939-42 and after some soft weeping and loss of innocence, he was ready to learn what a siege tank meant.
He also called the Command&Conquer "Orca" attack-chopper "okra".
So while you don't hear people say "simmular" with a "u", you can bet that some of them are thinking it.
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I assumed it was the same language quirk that causes some Americans to say "Nucular".
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Perhaps there are aliens on this very board...
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: I assumed it was the same language quirk that causes some Americans to say "Nucular".
Or the English to say "Bob's your uncle".
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So Liam, ever seen anything not easily explained in the night sky?
There is that whole UFO incident at the joint US/British NATO base in the early 1980's that seems to have been taken seriously at the time...
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