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Bush backs alien evidence

George W Bush says there is mounting evidence to suggest there is alien life on other planets.

The US President used his budget document to declare that there may be "space aliens" to be discovered.

A passage entitled, "Where are the Real Space Aliens?", states that important scientific research over the last 10 years indicates that proof of "habitual worlds" in outer space is becoming more of a reality.

Evidence for the current or previous existence of large bodies of water, an essential element for life, has already been found on Mars and on Jupiter's moons.

Astronomers are also discovering planets outside of our solar system, including around 90 stars with at least one planet orbiting them.

The document says: "Perhaps the notion that 'there's something out there' is closer to reality than we have imagined."


Story filed: 16:29 Monday 3rd February 2003

is this the start of a series of great revelations?!?

or just another excuse to boost their defence budget... this time in order to defend themselves from "a threat from beyond the stars"?

More "Suspicious" timing and "Mis-Information" from the Blair Bush Project IMHO!

jeez - let's turn the cynicism off for a second. in an infinite universe surely it's more likely than not there is life elsewhere.

intelligent life, on the other hand, is a whole different kettle of fish. let's face it, if intelligent life has managed to crawl into existence somewhere else in the universe it may well be a kettle of fish! or maybe something we wouldn't even recognise as life

we all know the old chestnut about how little time we've occupied on this planet in geological terms and how long, comparitively, dinosaurs were knocking about for. and yet we assume that dinosaurs can't have been intelligent because we can't find any evidence of their civilisation, even though archaeologists (sp?) have to depend on three bricks, an arrowhead and a tiny bit of pottery when trying to rebuild buildings from mere hundreds of years ago....

so..errr..umm...i dunno - but let's not dismiss the idea as part of some oil-grabbing, saddam-toppling, middle-east grabbing third world war propoganda.

there's enough of that doing the rounds all ready.

yours,
the devil's advocate

Quiff Boy wrote:http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_746860.html

Bush backs alien evidence

George W Bush says there is mounting evidence to suggest there is alien life on other planets.

I'm sure they are part of the axis of Evil too...

RicheyJames wrote:jeez - let's turn the cynicism off for a second. in an infinite universe surely it's more likely than not there is life elsewhere.

intelligent life, on the other hand, is a whole different kettle of fish.

There may be intelligent life elsewhere. I think there is.

That there is such a thing in this world, now, that's another matter.



Ganith

I hope to God that if the 'aliens' discover us before we discover them Bush isn't President acting as spokesman for the human race. They'll suss us out for being a planet full of cretins in no time and turn us all in to battery humans.

an interesting perspective......

"I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush"
T.Jones
Sunday January 26, 2003
The Observer

I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's
running out of patience. And so am I!

For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a
couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health
food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is
planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover
what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but
he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.

As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good
sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the
street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by
one.

Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the police?
But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they need evidence of
a crime with which to charge my neighbours.

They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights and
wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will be
finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel will be
secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the street with a
decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to me to keep the
peace. But until recently that's been a little difficult. Now, however,
George W. Bush has made it clear that all I need to do is run out of
patience, and then I can wade in and do whatever I want!

And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq is
the only way to bring about international peace and security. The one
certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers targeting the US
or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have never threatened us.

That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and
children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave us in
peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.

Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq is that
Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass destruction -
even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as much justification
for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr Bush has for bombing Iraq.

Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by eliminating
'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever long-term aim because how
can you ever know when you've achieved it? How will Mr Bush know when he's
wiped out all terrorists? When every single terrorist is dead? But then a
terrorist is only a terrorist once he's committed an act of terror. What
about would-be terrorists? These are the ones you really want to eliminate,
since most of the known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already
eliminated themselves.

Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a future
terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective until every
Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate Muslims might convert
to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe thing to do would be for Mr
Bush to eliminate all Muslims?

It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip of the
iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I don't like and
who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one will be really safe
until I've wiped them all out.

My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using the
same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her up.

Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough reason
for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give the whole
street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and hand over all
aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws and interstellar
terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them over nicely and say
'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street to kingdom come.

It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in contrast to
what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one street.