"William Graham" <weg9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dudley Hanks" <hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Bill" <trash@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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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!"
>
And, how long would such a general, admiral or politician keep his or her
job after offering up a statement such as that?
> 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?
>
I'll bite on the questions of aliens, but the whole God debate I'll leave
to
other forums, or you can e-mail me at hanks.dudley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for a private
dialectic.
Regarding why we should care if alien crafts are sighted but do not
interact
with us, well, wouldn't you be interested if you knew that an invasion was
iminent? Or, if you, yourself, kept seeing things you couldn't rationally
interpret, wouldn't you be concerned that you either needed to upgrade
your
education or seek competant psychological assistance?
From the time of Plato and Aristotle, if not from the earliest wondering
contemplations of cavemen, the human race has sought to understand both
ourselves and the world around us. Why draw the line at the present level
of understanding and say, "Great, we now know enough to live comfortably.
Let's all just sit back and have a big retirement party!"
As long as stuff happens that cannot be rationally explained, enquiring
minds will want explainations, and the search for explainations will spawn
inquisitorial discussions until solutions are settled upon.
Take Care,
Dudley
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