What always bugs me about all these "aliens" that supposedly visit our planet is that they always contact the "nut-cases" in our society.

Logically, In order to visit another solar system, these "aliens" would be pretty sophisticated scientists, eh? If we ever got to the level where we could visit another planet with intelligent life, we would send our best scientists to explore their culture, right? And if we decided to contact anyone to let them know were were there, we would probably pick some of their scientists to talk to, right? I don't think we would contact their wackiest fringes would we?

...Unless we were just plain evil and wanted to mess with their heads...

Another thing that bothers me about flying saucer's is that they fly around at night with all their glowy lights on, scaring the chickens and the cows. What's up with that? If they want to remain secretive, can't they just turn out their lights? Or better yet, disguise themselves as something innocuous, like an airplane? They are supposed to be so far beyond us in technology and they don't have a light switch?


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But that makes sense! Consppiracy theorioes won't be good if they make sense. :-)


I always relate Aliens to this analogy.

Imagine being in Florida, U.S.A. You then take a rowboat all the way over to Africa. You land on a beach, draw a few figures in the sand and scare a few chimps. Then you row home. Does this make sense? No it does not.

You are right. 'If any race is smart enought to make a spaceship they would also find soem way to hide it or at least try to remain inconspicuous. Especially if they are scientists.

anything the space aliens need to know about us they can learn by subscribing to the New York Times, dialing in the BBC or spending some time in a library or museum. they don't need to probe the lone 'coon hunter or get inside the mind of half-morons like Nancy.

The best comment I ever heard about alien contact was from an African-American woman who is a friend of ours from grad school....she wanted to know why it was always white people who were contacted by aliens...she didnt know of any African-American who had been contacted or abducted by them....

Maybe it's only the nut-case aliens that bother to contact us. :P

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Possibly aliens with an upcoming competancy hearing? "Your Honor, before you throw me in the looney bin, get a load of what these folks let run around loose!" A crazy idea, but it just might work....

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Or maybe they are what Douglas Adams called teasers...I don't have my Hitchhiker's Guide handy, but the basic idea is that rich kids with nothing to do go to planets that haven't made interstellar contact, land in front of some poor soul who no one is ever going to believe and strut back and forth in front of them wearing antenna and making silly beep-beep noises.

"Rather childish, really" Ford Prefect

Just another theory

Rob

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Why do aliens visit Earth? Here is the answer.

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ZappBrannigan makes a good point (sort of)... Why do the aliens always want to stick things up our bottoms?

Surely they are advanced enough to take our temperature from our ears!!! We can do that!

[edit] Is there any other information they would be able to glean from our bottoms, short of a very inefficient method of examining a stool sample...

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Dr.J

Remember the story of Betty and Barney Hill...They were the first to relate to aliens coming from zeta reticuli....Barney was African American.
The story states they were abducted in N.H.

I seem to remember an episode of the Simpsons where Homer is abducted. As soon as he realizes where he is, he starts to undo his belt buckle, only to be stopped by the alien, who says hurriedly:

"Stop! We have reached the limits of what anal probing can teach us!"

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Ya! Remember that one!!! My point is that they should have reached 'the limits' some time ago.... Their 'alleged' persistence is rather disturbing dontcha think?

C.

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The brain is attached to the spinal cord which is attached to the tail bone. I think the people who have reported 'anal probing' have suffered indirect brain damage. :roll:

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You are absolutely right!.....actually, what was funny was to hear her talk about it....cf., this all came up because of Courtney Brown at Emory U., who is a Political Science professor there and the guru of Scientific Remote Viewing.....my wife was a Poli Sci grad student there, as well as many of our friends, and we had quite a time with Professor Brown and his obsession.....that was what prompted our friend to make the observation about crazy white people being contacted by aliens...

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....My take on it?...
...Somewhere, in the dark of night, as the wind rustles the towering corn stalks of a rural Iowa farm, an alien noise to this stillnes can be barely heard.......'Bza hghrah, mkletkl beroma'*.....
.....(*translation:'Hey ya'll, watch this!')

(with my apologies to anyone who really liked 'Signs'.... )

Why do aliens only contact "nut cases"?

Because their communication devices can only reach people with brains below a certain number of neural connections. Right away, that excludes most people in the world, including 95% of the BABB members (the other 5% being the trolls).

So, to contact people, they are forced to work with people with less brain power, but not so low that said people cannot relay the aliens' message.

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Perhaps, the aliens contact whackos because they're seeking to better understand instances where the biological code has gone severly off track in the hopes that they might be able to find a fix for the problem.

Here's an idea.

Aliens, being all powerful and all, probably keep up with the internet, and I am sure they read this BBS to see what we are up to, debunking and all that, right?

so,

I hereby volunteer for any aliens out there to come get me and I will voluntarily undergo several scientific experiments (no anal probes please!)

I live in Louisville, KY, down by U of L. I will blink my porchlight on and off 10 times at midnight tonight so you can see where I live.

You can park in the front yard.

Snacks will be provided.

PS: I am insane. So feel free to send me telepathic messages if you like. But you will have to speak up. It's hard to hear, what with all the other voices in my head and all.
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As to why the aliens only contact nutcases, it could simply be that aliens actually contact a wide cross section of humanity, but only the nut cases are crazy enough to admit it.

Some thoughts on UFO encounters:

Someone once remarked, "The problem with UFOs is that they can look like about anything, while a black helicopter only looks like a black helicopter." This is a good guiding principle in cutting through a lot of nonsense.

One simple explanation for a lot of UFO encounters, that I don't see ever mentioned, is a drug smuggling operation. Yet, in reading newspaper reports of them, small planes will land in deserted areas, usually with their engines off. Picture some observer watching a mysterious light descending noiselessly from the sky in a deserted area. What are they going to think. They believe there is no place for a plane to land there and besides they would hear the engines, so it must be a UFO!

Someone stumbling on the operation would either be scared off or worse! One thing for sure is that the drug smugglers are not going to identify themselves as drug such! If the observer believes he's encountered a UFO and flees, so much the better!

Or... the aliens are drug smugglers and they give free samples to the people they pick up, causing them to become nut-cases.

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I do know that locally black helicopters have been used in surveillance by drug enforcement. I also noted at the time that there were a couple of news reports about UFOs.

I seriously think that some of the UFO reports may be due to drug growing or smuggling operations or the surveillance of them.