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Majority of Americans Think Obama Is Better Suited To Handle an Alien Invasion

Posted by samzenpus on from the lock-and-load dept.

Geoffrey.landis writes "At last, a public opinion poll that gets the opinions of ordinary Americans on the issues that matter! Apparently, two thirds of Americans polled think that Barack Obama is better suited to defend against an alien invasion than Mitt Romney, according to a survey from National Geographic Channel, done to tout their upcoming TV series 'chasing UFOs'. In follow-up questioning, Americans would rather call on the Hulk (21%) than either Batman (12%) or Spiderman (8%) to save the day. No word on which candidate is most fit to defend America against shambling hordes of undead seeking to destroy civilization in the zombie apocalypse (perhaps that will be brought out in the debates)." The real question of course is how Obama would handle Galactus.

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  1. NatGeo channel's really gone downhill by C_amiga_fan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This used to be one of my favorite channels. Along with "Wild" Discovery, History, Scifi, and Animal. The last one's not too bad, but NatGeo and the others have turned-into reality shows.

    Yeah I know. Complain, complain. Well I can't help if all these channels start looking alike, instead of their original mission. NOW I spend most of my time watching the free broadcast channels: RetroTV, ThisTV, AntennaTV..... they are what AMC and TVland used to be. (Though it's probably only a matter of time til they jump-the-shark and start inserting reality shows.)

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    1. Re:NatGeo channel's really gone downhill by EdIII · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It seems that reality tv shows are the cheapest programming you can make.

      "Actors" that are just amazed they are on television and if you tell them they will get paid even half as much again as their current yearly salary they start humping the programming directors leg.

      Meanwhile, the big, classically trained in NYC, celebrity actors bitch about the wrong color M&Ms in their custom trailers and just when does their salary go to 1 million dollars per episode.

      No big loss to me. It's not like I was that into television in the first place. I'll miss the sci-fi shows and documentaries, but that will just make want to watch the documentaries on Netflix even more.

  2. Re:Krugman just want to spend more money in it ! by Freddybear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially if it's other people's money.

  3. Re:Code Brown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lets be real, no president would be able to do anything about it.

    The US is powerful when it's beating the crap out of other humans but against an extraterrestrial intelligence that spans the galaxy?

    It's ok; I would probably side with you guys. A lot of us have gone native. And you really are a lot further along than you think. For example, the same technology you use for DLP televisions could be used to create rapidly oscillating microscopic mirrors to generate virtual particles. With a bit of tuning and using lasers for selection/detection, you could use them to pull up wormholes out of the quantum foam (the trick is stabilizing them with negative matter. But wormholes already have negative curvature and thus are negative matter, so you can use the rejected ones to "feed" the one you want to select).

    Oops; I'm rambling. Anyway, the point is that you guys almost have Q-drive, with smaller cores than anything the rest of the galaxy can offer. That and BBQ pretty much means you guys don't have to worry about any kind of extinction attacks. When the aliens arrive, send them to Texas and for Great Maker's sake don't offer them chili with beans in it; you have no idea how offensive that is.

  4. Re:It makes a lot of sense ! by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They just don't realize that Romney would use the encounter to create billions of jobs. By outsourcing them from Earth.

  5. Re:Krugman just want to spend more money in it ! by khipu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it takes a special kind of naivite to think that with an annual national deficit of $1.3 trillion dollars and a national debt of $15 trillion, we are "hoarding money".

    Krugman is advocating spending money we don't have, money we need to borrow and repay at significant interest rates, or money we need to remove from the economy through taxation. Either is a bad idea.