> From: Jed Rothwell ...
> This kind of thinking disturbs me. It boils down to the > notion that people are not capable of doing what we > have actually done. The corollary is that we are somehow > incapable of making revolutionary changes or revitalizing > civilization. ... Lighten up Jed. The world will not fall just because some people claim aliens were responsible for giving us...well Velcro for one thing! Oh! Wait a minute Velcro came from T?Pol's great great grand mother when their secret Vulcan expedition to our planet malfunctioned and they became temporarily stranded on our planet back in the 1950s! What I find amusing is not the raging debates on whether our planet had been visited by aliens. What?s more amusing to me is how upset certain individuals get when it is implied ever so lightly that we may have actually gotten something from them. You are aware of the Brooking?s Institute paper commissioned back in the 1960 on what the impact would be on our society if we were to discover we were not alone in the universe. BTW: Just to be clear on this, I'm NOT arguing that aliens gave us IC. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
