"Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Bill" <trash@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> You know, if the Air Force really did want to keep some of their
>> exercises a secret, why wouldn't they just say, "Golly, yes, I guess
you
>> must have seen a UFO..." and leave it at that.
>>
>> It seems odd when they sometimes say there was no UFO. It is
>> understandable that they would say "it wasn't us", but how could they
>> possibly know for sure it wasn't somebody else? Everybody stay calm.
>>
> Well, I can understand how discussing the difficulties of catching a UFO
> in clear detail might fit into this newsgroup, but second guessing
> military responses seems a bit outside the purpose of alt.photography.
> However, I'm a sucker for this kind of discussion, so I'll bite.
>
> If the military actually said, "Hey, isn't that neat! You folks saw a
UFO
> over Vegas last night. Cool!" Wouldn't that lead to a bit of anxiety
on
> the part of Vegas residents? Wouldn't the people of that fair city then
> be saying: "So, with all the money in your budget you missed it? Are
you
> also going to miss a missile coming in over the Atlantic or Pacific?"
>
> Given our system of command and control and accountability, the powers
> that be need to maintain the impression that they are like God,
> omnipresent and ever vigilant. To admit that something happened that
> cannot be rationalized underminds the whole system and will never be
> admitted.
>
> Take Care,
> Dudley
>
>
The air force could say, "Wow! - It's a good thing that our enemies don't
have the technology that those aliens have. They were able to travel all
that way without being detected, and our enemies can't even launch a
missile
a few hundred miles with us not only knowing about it, but being able to
shoot it down!"
This whole UFO discussion suffers from the same thing that my atheism
suffered from when I was arguing with the religious types.....In the long
run, it doesn't matter whether there is a God or not, because he doesn't
do
anything for us in any case, so who cares? - In the same manner, if the
aliens don't come down to Earth and show themselves to us and help us
solve
some of our problems, then why would we care whether they are real or not?
IOW, I don't really care whether the UFO's are from other solar systems or
not. It is perfectly obvious to me that at this late date, they aren't
going
to help or hinder us in any way, so why would it matter what they are?
And,
therefore, why bother to speculate about it? It doesn't matter whether a
God
who never intervenes exists or not, does it?
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