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On 2003-03-14 12:59, HankSolo wrote:
Unfortunately, I believe that our governments would keep the existence of ET UFO's secret from us, and that is the cause of all this confusion.
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You believe that the amateur astronomy community, the professional astronomy community, the air-traffic controllers, and amateur flight-plan trackers are also in on it? Conspiracy theories are paranoia, Hank.
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There is too much to gain by keeping it secret, and too much to lose by making it public.
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Baloney. That's your opinion but you don't have any evidence for it. It's simply a paranoid attitude.
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Let's say for a minute that an alien ship did crash in Roswell. What benefit would we have by sharing this with the world?
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It would be a public relations boon. The US would get credit for discovering alien life. People would be famous. There are both selfish and magnanimous motivations.
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On the other hand, what benefit would we have by keeping it to ourselves? Even with my open-mindedness, if I was President, that baby would be mine, all mine.
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Are you kidding me? What would you do with the "information"? You don't think that at least some of the presidents in the last 50 years have been motivated by fame?
Anyway, this is a non-issue. The Roswell nonsense has been shown to be hyped up by the town. It's a great boost for the local economy, and the town has convinced the airforce to keep the "mystique" alive. How do I know this? I have friends who work in the area. It's a big joke the locals are having a great time playing on the gullible. I think it's in poor taste, but I don't live there.
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Remember, the government's goal is not the free exchange of science with the world.
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That's plain idiocy. The government wouldn't finance academic institutions if that was the case. We wouldn't have the areas of NASA or NSF or NAOA or DOE that were devoted to just that.
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It has always been about national security and maintaining our technological edge.
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Those are catch-phrases that don't mean anything. I know the story of the "alien technology" being kept secret, but the government could just as easily keep the stuff it wanted secret and still tell the world it had the evidence. In fact, it doesn't make any sense at all for the government to keep the existence of the technology secret. It wants the rest of the world to know that it has the edge.
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I'm not much into the conspiracy scene, but if UFO's are truly ET craft, we would not be told.
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You certainly are toting the party line for not being "into" the scene.
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does it give us any strategic or military advantage. But a spaceship in our atmosphere certainly does.
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You need to explain this statement. How does simple KNOWLEDGE give away a strategic or military advantage.
You're falling fast into crankdom, Hank.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: JS Princeton on 2003-03-14 13:34 ]</font>