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[mindmetoo]

In all my time on Usenet reading groups like alt.alien.visitor, I noticed two common themes among UFO believers there.

1) Every year the UFO community was seized by a rumor that some major event was about to happen. The government was about to come out with a major UFO related revelation or the saucer people were about reveal themselves. Nothing ever happened, of course. It's a darn good conspiracy that can suppress these major revelations every year. It seemed to me that the UFO community always needed some hope to keep them going.

2) Because the UFO community had no scientific evidence, they wanted science to redefine what constituted proof. For example, every legitimate science out there is held to the same standard of proof: publish your evidence in a reputable scientific journal, wait for others to repeat your findings, and then wait patiently for your ideas to filter through the scientific marketplace.

If your hypothesis isn't supported by any of the evidence, then you don't scream conspiracy. You either go "I guess I was wrong" or figure out why your experiment failed and try again.

The UFO types would argue vigorously since a) space aliens are very smart and don't make it easy to get the evidence on them b) there is such a huge, effective conspiracy against them, science should bend the rules and accept the paltry evidence they offered. So, if you were claiming to have found a new, highly elusive bacteria that can live in stomach acid and cause ulcers, then you work hard and offer good evidence. But if you were claiming to have found a new form of life that can build invisible interstellar space crafts, then you should be able to offer crap and expect science to go "ah yes, of course."

[tomato]

If I ever met a group of space aliens, my first question would be
"How did you get here?"

If there is any way to build a vehicle capable of interstellar flight,
I am sure the rocket scientists here would be interested.

Out of all the hundreds of persons claiming close encounters,
I wonder why none of them have ever come up with such a blueprint.
That would do us far more good than all these take-care-of-the-earth and love-each-other platitudes.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Porter_Goss]

[RACETRAITOR]

Just wait until Creationists change the definition of science to include gibberish you read in 3000-year-old books.

Then maybe the UFO people will be able to bend the new rules. Then again the Bible specifically doesn't say that God created aliens, so I guess they're out of luck.

[mindmetoo]