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Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens
Republicans weren't the only ones to win big yesterday. Aliens in The Mile-High City can breathe easier thanks to voters rejecting a plan to officially track them. From the article: "The proposal defeated soundly Tuesday night would have established a commission to track extraterrestrials. It also would have allowed residents to post their observations on Denver's city Web page and report sightings." Let the anonymous probings begin!
Would these be illegal aliens?
Or is there some sort of interplanetary visa?
I was so going to send them a resume. I'd be so overqualified they'd put me in charge, and I'd officially rename it the Fringe Division.
I was *THIS* close to being in charge of the Fringe Division! DAMN YOU, COLORADO VOTERS!!!!
With all the anti-immigration attitudes of this country, lotsa luck ET will land in USA, they will choose another country.
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Boy, I dodged a bullet there. Now I can remain anony...oh shit.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
I felt tracking aliens was a serious attack on their privacy, I saw the ads against the measure cleverly titled Skyline, they spoke to me. I know what would happen if it passed...
Something R's and D's can come together and not support. UFO research!
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
They'll sing a different tune once the first Chestbursters show up.
The aliens have technology to travel several lightyears and have nothing better to do than jerk around screwing with peoples heads? I say don't track the useless bastards. Just let them keep flying around and doing nothing.
In any case, it was to be funded by donations rather than taxes.
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What I would like to know more about, in Georgia there was a proposed amendment that would somehow strengthen non-compete employment agreements (I regret I don't fully understand it, I could not find as much info as I would like about it in the time available to me). What bugs me about it was the wording on the ballot made it sound almost like the voters would be killing kittens if they didn't vote for it.
Unsurprisingly, it looks like it got voted in but I have not heard much in the media about it so far.
I guess space aliens are more interesting.
Don't you need to collect a number of signatures, or can you just propose something wacky, and it gets on? This one seems so ridiculous, that I'm surprised that it even needed to be voted on. So, how many folks in Denver signed, and thought that the city really needs this. I guess I would sign, just because the idea is such a hoot and a half.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Illegal aliens, if caught, are subjected to a cavity search.
These aliens, OTOH, if they catch you they'll perform an anal probing on you.
Since the U.N. already named an Alien Ambassador it seems logical that there should be some sort of organization to track all the visitors - besides the Men in Black, that is.
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The Denver man who proposed the measure, Jeff Peckman, says the government is tracking alien sightings but refuses to make the reports public. Peckman is a meditation instructor and promoter of new technology, including something he says reduces the "chaos of electromagnetic fields."
And his evidence for any of this is...? Maybe the voters rejected this because, after 60 or so years of the modern UFO "movement" we are no closer to any hard evidence than when it started. In that time real science has landed men on the Moon, conquered the atom and used computers to connect the world. I think the lesson here is that science works: it produces real, tangible results. Pseudoscience produces nothing, save the false sense of superiority in those that practice it. People that believe UFOs are alien spacecraft, and that the government covers it up, aren't interested in facts. They believe it in the same mode of thought people use for religion. And that's not to disparage religious folk; while I am not religious myself, I understand the desire to believe and the strength people can draw from that belief. But some modes of thought, such as accepting things on faith, are not useful for real science.
Here's a major mistake UFO proponents make. They tend to believe, if science can't explain away every single detail about a UFO sighting, then it "must" be an alien spacecraft. It doesn't work that way though, because alien spacecraft are not known to exist. So, jumping to that conclusion is as absurd as saying it was elves or unicorns that caused the lights in the sky. And yet UFO proponents think explanations like "marsh gas" are absurd. But guess what: marsh gas is known to exist. So what's really more absurd? From the vantage point of science, we have to presume something does not exist until we have evidence it does. So until we have an alien spacecraft to examine up close, the default assumption will always be that they do not exist, and that will continue to be sound scientific reasoning until we have more than lights in the sky to support the alien spacecraft hypothesis.
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Sorry to post just to complain about spelling: when you breathe, you take a breath of fresh air. I have seen "breathe" written as "breath" so often that I almost doubt myself- I'm making the point to complain because I think a lot of people honestly don't know the difference.
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It's all over the news illegal aliens taking American jobs. It's high time we start tracking illegal aliens. I don't want Gray Aliens mowing my lawn or picking my food. It's bad enough getting anally probed by them but now I have to deal with alien bag boys? We can't solve the unemployment problems of alien worlds there simply aren't enough jobs to go around.
The Men in Black already take care of this. They license and monitor alien activity "on the planet earth" - and certainly they have jurisdiction over this. End of thread.
For Christ sake, lets declassify stuff like this FIRST and THEN see if people still see UFO's??? OK???? http://www.thestealthblimp.com/
And Denver thought they said " Illegal alien" and signed up.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
And what's sad about that, is that our understanding of the unexplained has changed so much. Just as we once attributed unexplained things to gods but then "realized" that such phenomenon are attributable to aliens, in recent years we have learned if every detail can't be explained, then really it must be a time traveller.
Why didn't our forbearers realize that, no, the 1928 cellphone user wasn't a witch or alien? I'm not sure what caused their illogic and blindness to facts and common sense. But I suspect their mistake was caused by time travel, just like everything else that I don't understand.
I wouldn't doubt people are reporting allot of UFOs seeing that Air Force Space Command, Norad, CIA(new), and Lockhead Space Systems are all out of that area. There might be some neat things test flying here and there under the cover of night. Not aliens but perhaps some cool looking Lockhead "stuff".