From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 16:37:01 MDT
Mark's post about our being under constant surveillance from THEM
so that we don't find out about the galactic civilization has the
obvious qualities of paranoia, though, in his last words, he makes
it abundantly clear that he was joking:
> Possible? Yes. Probable? No. Or at least that is what the
> aliens would like you to believe. ; )
Listen, probably no one here enjoys---for the sheer fun of it---
conjectures like "Is Senator Simpson really a space alien?" more
than I do. There is *no* doubt about it, if he gave a press
conference, the one question I definitely would ask first is,
"Is it true Senator Simpson, that you are a space alien?" :-)
And here is more of the same great fun I was giggling at last night:
http://www.dailywonklists.com/CongressmanSenatorAlien.htm
and even better
http://textfiles.fisher.hu/conspiracy/senators.txt
wherein it is revealed that no fewer than twelve members
of the U.S. Senate have admitted that they are from outer
space. One is actually from Remulak itself! No kidding,
see
http://www.skepticfiles.org/misctext/aliensgo.htm
But, ahem....
I still cannot account for why on the otherwise quite *serious*
extropians list, so many are eager to begin fantasizing along
such puerile lines. Evidently, there must be a strong "urge to
believe" out there!
So Anders writes a somewhat equivalent, equally imaginative, post,
and after several serious sounding paragraphs ends with the words
> ...hidden within what looks like such a nucleus a
> little nanodevice sits, listening to things.
> Hmm, what was I thinking about? I just forgot it. Ah, better get
> back to my work.
Okay, so it is just the *allure* of playing with the ideas of some
kind of Galactic Club Prime Directive, or what, that accounts for
otherwise sensible people on this list not accepting the obvious
"Because We Are Alone, duh!"?
Lee
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