Canadian Ex-Minister Calls For Serious ET Study

Nom du Keyboard writes "A former Canadian Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister wants Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics - relations with Extraterrestrials - to avoid the possibility of intergalactic war. Unfortunately he also proposes starting a 'Decade of Contact', which seems to mean spending a whole lot of public money on UFO education. Is he on the right track here, that we can't afford to ignore the rest of the Universe any longer?" From the article: "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning ... The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

Comments

Re:"Intergalactic war", huh?

[saskboy]

Trying to defend ourselves with early 21st century technology is certainly pointless. Unless we possess 30th century technology in a time lab, and have phasers, photon torpedos, and force shields in development.

More seriously though, I heard someone describe the threat of an object accelerated to nearly the speed of light, and aimed at the earth. The resulting explosion would tear a hole right through the planet and make life unlivable. In theory any civilization out there would do this to us, before we gained the ability to do the same to them - given lowest violent human common denominators. Humans are only as ethical as our slimiest violent criminals like the kind that flew planes into towers, or plant bombs outside of buildings. It might be a good thing that humans can't travel very fast, and very easily, or we'd have every nutcase trying to destroy the earth and actually succeeding simply by ramming their .9 Lightspeed Buick Century 3000 through the earth.

Re:Never...

[Gerhardius]

You must not remember people like Renee Simard and Wayne & Schuster: they were embarrassing for Canadians. Seriously though, Paul Hellyer has always been kind of a nutcase and to be honest I though he was long dead. Hellyer was the genius behind unification of the Armed Forces, as well as Defence Minister when the Forces took a budget reduction from which they have never recovered. I wonder why anyone is listening to him now except for the over-rated positions he has held in the past.

Re:+5 Funny?

[iendedi]

Are you sure I am serious?

That's some pretty heavy stuff to be serious about!

If it's a joke, why is it so funny? That is an interesting question in itself...

Hey dude... This is slashdot - things neither need to be real and serious nor fictional and funny. They can lie on the imaginary plane where reality and fiction create fractal interference patterns...