What do astronomers expect from aliens?
Ask them what movies theyve been watching lately.
NASAs continued funding is dependent on the enthusiasm of both the federal government and the public at large.
And look at whats happened to NASA after everyone got bored with the shuttle.
And Im not even going to get into the whole Kubrick filmed the fake moon landing business here.
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With rare exception, throughout the 50s, extraterrestrials visiting Earth were malevolent sonsabitches.
Extraterrestrials were the ultimate foreigners, after all.
Who the hell were they to come down here uninvited and tell us to stop building atomic weapons?
Certainly was psychedelic, though, and a distinct step away from simple paranoia.
It was an optimistic time.
For godsakes, people, have you never seen Earth vs.
Even Spielberg traded out his earlier optimism for a remake ofWar of the Worlds.
In the mass media.
One possibility is simple PR.
Intriguing an idea as it is, its one with a number of troublesome assumptions.
Which leads to the biggest problem of all facing the proposed planet cloaking system.
And by the time we figured that out, wouldnt it already be too late?
