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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."
Any ET that Bush can shoot down isn't worth knowing anyway.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
Im assuming this is a joke...
Did you not watch that movie?? The aliens would die from all the germs and bacteria that humans are immune to! Simply coughing and sneezing at them will be our ultimate weapon. There is absolutely nothing to worry about!
...(a pretty amazing feat for one little planet, wouldn't you say? Even with a base on our moon!)...
That's not a moon... : p
Be a real patriot: Question authority. Think for yourself. Formulate your own conclusions.
...have I been embarassed to be Canadian...until now.
"Anyone that has ever gotten an idea based on any of my work and done something better with it-good for you."--J.Carmack
The aliens must be laughing themselves sick at our hubris.
If they laugh themselves sick, are they eligable for treatment in the Canadian free health-care system?
Progressivism: Parasites helping parasites to help themselves - to other people's stuff.
Forget fusion weapons...
Yeah, you're all forgetting all we'll need is a copy of Sasser on a diskette! Wait -- they're an advanced civilization, after all... better make that a flash drive.
I am not left-handed, either!
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes