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Old 06-29-2011, 05:54 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I'd like to see you roll your eyes when their mothership starts treating Big Ben like a phallus and copulating.
Hardly likely. During tea and crumpets (which they enjoyed very much, I might add) we discussed that little prank concerning that well known tea party your lot held all those years ago.
Expect a visit!
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Old 06-29-2011, 05:57 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Think the general consensus on the news sites is that it is a fake and a crude one at that. Pity I'd like some other worldly beings to pop up.
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Old 06-29-2011, 06:01 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Think the general consensus on the news sites is that it is a fake and a crude one at that.
Considering it's not even had any news coverage here...I'd say your observations were accurate.
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Yeh I really enthusiastically googled it and then felt a little silly when it just did not rate in any worthy news site!
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Hardly likely. During tea and crumpets (which they enjoyed very much, I might add) we discussed that little prank concerning that well known tea party your lot held all those years ago.
Expect a visit!
I think we've got it under control...



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Old 06-29-2011, 06:14 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Since I found out about Adobe After Effects, I will never take any paranormal/extraterrestrial video seriously ever again.

KIDS can do this kind of work on it:



There are even tutorials for how to make UFO videos with it.
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I found the original link on CNET, which they got from Reuters.

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Just as Bigfeet tend to emerge during the summer period, so it is with UFOs.

It is natural to be skeptical. If these strange phenomena really did exist, why haven't their captains exposed themselves on our streets? Why haven't they sat down with Katie Couric and Oprah?

And yet two events have conflated to, yet again, send a frisson of excitement through the bones of those who seek extraterrestrial contact.

First, as reported by Reuters, a top Russian astronomer, Andrei Finkelstein, director of none other than the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, declared that we would meet aliens within 20 years.

His rationale is lofty, but strong.

He reportedly said that of the planets that circle the many suns out there in the black beyond, 10 percent have some similarity to our own Earth. From this he extrapolates that, sooner or only slightly later, there will be a cross-cultural encounter between ourselves and selves that may or may not resemble little green elves.

"They may have different color skin, but even we have that," Finkelstein curiously offered.

Such positing has been going on since before H.G. Wells tried to scare people listening to the radio. Indeed, not so long ago, Stephen Hawking said that we should be most concerned that aliens will actually despise us and simply want to pillage our land for its, um, fast food joints. (I paraphrase slightly.)

Perhaps we'll find out sooner than 2031. For currently there is a mild frenzy occurring over on YouTube with the emergence of videos that purport to show a UFO mothership and her fleet over London, scouting, perhaps, places to stay during the 2012 Olympics.

My first reaction to these videos was "there's yet another alien summer blockbuster movie coming out?" Yours might well be the same. And yet, as more of these YouTube videos have emerged, more than 1 million people have been lured to watch them and wonder.

Those with a sanguine perspective will have considered whether aliens already exist in our midst and have been sent to examine our way of life. I know a couple of people who, for example, wonder where Keanu Reeves might originally be from.

The only definitive answers will come when we can be sure that we can believe our own eyes and our own news media providers.

But if Finkelestein happens to be correct, humans' perspective on life-- even on technology-- might change drastically well before today's youths are able to pay off their student loans.
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"The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years," Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Speaking at an international forum dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, Finkelstein said 10 percent of the known planets circling suns in the galaxy resemble Earth.

If water can be found there, then so can life, he said, adding that aliens would most likely resemble humans with two arms, two legs and a head.

"They may have different color skin, but even we have that," he said.

Finkelstein's institute runs a program launched in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War space race to watch for and beam out radio signals to outer space.

"The whole time we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilizations, we have mainly been waiting for messages from space and not the other way," he said.
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