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stevesnj · Jul 2, 2007, 12:56 AM

Roswell aliens theory revived by deathbed confession | NEWS.com.au

Gator Lager · Jul 2, 2007, 01:08 AM

I work with a guy that talks about this stuff all the time. Alien this, cover up that... blah blah.
so I'll be printing this out and giving it to him. Then run out of the office and let my co-workers have to listen.

IceEnclosure · Jul 2, 2007, 06:55 AM

the NASA guy doesn't believe in aliens?

(i know you didn't say that, just stirring the pot)

Love Calm Quiet · Jul 2, 2007, 07:02 AM

Shame that there wasn't also a deathbed psychiatric evaluation.

Gator Lager · Jul 2, 2007, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure

the NASA guy doesn't believe in aliens?

(i know you didn't say that, just stirring the pot)

Oh yeah I believe that others are out their.
The universe is to big for it not to contain other life forms. I just don't go off the edge like my friend does. Annoying.

Some of the Astronauts have some interesting stories. I personally haven't ask any of them about the subject.

Y3a · Jul 2, 2007, 08:35 AM

perhaps they WEREN'T aliens, but earthlings who use time travel from the extreme future to try and fix some issue by tampering here and now? This sure would negate the 'extreme distances' issue.

design219 · Jul 2, 2007, 08:47 AM

Oh that Walter Haut, he was always such a joker. He had the best pranks. I guess he pulled off one last big joke. Very funny, Walter.

Now go back to work citizens.

TheoCryst · Jul 2, 2007, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by design219

Oh that Walter Haut, he was always such a joker. He had the best pranks. I guess he pulled off one last big joke. Very funny, Walter.

Now go back to work citizens.

I smell a coverup! THE TRUTH WILL NOT BE SILENCED!

*cackles madly*

olePigeon · Jul 2, 2007, 12:13 PM

If I was on my deathbead and I could tell one story that'd drive 6 billion people nuts... I'd do it. I'd be laughing into the afterlife.

SUCKERS!

Sherman Homan · Jul 2, 2007, 12:21 PM

So they got the whole interstellar space travel thing worked out but they crashed in the New Mexico desert as soon as they got here? Seems like they might have figured out that part...

mitchell_pgh · Jul 2, 2007, 12:23 PM

Show me some proof. Eye witness testimony in regular judicial trials is bad enough... Magnify that by an active imagination and presto. Aliens and monsters.

Cold Warrior · Jul 2, 2007, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Sherman Homan

So they got the whole interstellar space travel thing worked out but they crashed in the New Mexico desert as soon as they got here? Seems like they might have figured out that part...

We shot them down with disruptor technology from Earth's earlier advanced civilization, Atlantis.

Aliens thought the planet would be an easy target. Suckers.

Uncle Skeleton · Jul 2, 2007, 12:44 PM

um, any reason why news.com.au is the only one running this? It's an american story...the prank might not be the dead guy's, it might be the reporter or his source.

Obi Wan's Ghost · Jul 2, 2007, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton

um, any reason why news.com.au is the only one running this? It's an american story...the prank might not be the dead guy's, it might be the reporter or his source.

That's not a ray gun. This is a ray gun.

starman · Jul 2, 2007, 12:58 PM

One word: Torchwood.

Dakarʒ · Jul 2, 2007, 01:07 PM

One word: Huh?

dav · Jul 2, 2007, 02:21 PM

Feynman on Flying Saucers:
Some years ago I had a conversation with a layman about flying saucers — because I am scientific I know all about flying saucers! I said "I don't think there are flying saucers'. So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible. To define what I mean, I might have said to him, "Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence." It is just more likely. That is all.

Jawbone54 · Jul 3, 2007, 03:15 AM

This brings back memories of (very) late nights playing SSX Tricky while listening to Coast to Coast, laughing my butt off.

And believe it or not, I wasn't high.

Wiskedjak · Jul 3, 2007, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Y3a

perhaps they WEREN'T aliens, but earthlings who use time travel from the extreme future to try and fix some issue by tampering here and now? This sure would negate the 'extreme distances' issue.

And bring up the relatively minor issue of time travel ...

Dakarʒ · Jul 3, 2007, 08:59 AM

He obviously knows something we don't.

Dakarʒ · Jul 3, 2007, 08:59 AM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

This brings back memories of (very) late nights playing SSX Tricky while listening to Coast to Coast, laughing my butt off.

And believe it or not, I wasn't high.

Yes you were.

On life.

Y3a · Jul 3, 2007, 10:26 AM

It has been speculated that to use the warping of time-space as a method of travel over LONG distances might start as just testing the warping aspects that could warp time. Getting to a point to farther away may be impossible, but moving in time may not.

Sure, Aliens are NOT POSSIBLE right?

Space craft are impossible?

Exploring other planets is impossible?

We already KNOW EVERYTHING, right?

Dakarʒ · Jul 3, 2007, 10:29 AM

Which statement are you yelling at?

highstakes · Jul 3, 2007, 10:39 AM

Wow..very interesting article. Wonder what really happened to that nurse...

Y3a · Jul 3, 2007, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ

Which statement are you yelling at?

I guess its the attitude that they DON'T exist, when we have no clue about advanced technologies, or what devices or physics may be developed.

Dakarʒ · Jul 3, 2007, 12:14 PM

Yeah, I understand that.

But not believeing this story doesn't mean disbelieving in the possibility of aliens.

(Side note: So anyone know if there is anyone else from that installation still alive?)

RAILhead · Jul 3, 2007, 02:23 PM

Helloooooooooooo nurse!

/got nothin

design219 · Jul 3, 2007, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Dakarʒ

So anyone know if there is anyone else from that installation still alive?

I think that project has been wrapped up nicely now.

TheoCryst · Jul 3, 2007, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by design219

I think that project has been wrapped up nicely now.

See? I told you that design works for the government! It's all a conspiracy! Lies! LIES!

*gasp*

- - e r i k - - · Jul 4, 2007, 03:51 AM

Not only is it a badly pulled prank, he's basically just repeating the same sensationalised story with the same details that we've heard a million times before and seen on TV. Rest in peace you joker you!

freudling · Jul 4, 2007, 04:49 AM

Humans are monkeys if they think we are "it".

NobleMatt · Jul 4, 2007, 06:03 AM

i agree that there is life out there, we cant be the only life supporting planet. it wouldnt supprise me if sommet did happen at roswell, i hope i just live long enough to find out what.

Matt

SirCastor · Jul 4, 2007, 09:07 AM

Originally Posted by freudling

Humans are monkeys if they think we are "it".

Who's the 'they' and who's the 'we' here? Your sentence starts out defining a third party, uses the 3rd part pronoun, and then uses an inclusive pronoun...

Your sentence could be read as "Humans are monkeys if they think we (extra-terrestrials) are it."

You're an alien!

</fun nit-picking>

design219 · Jul 4, 2007, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by TheoCryst

*edited for national security reasons*

attn: TheoCryst: Please post two more times in this thread. Your assistance and cooperation is appreciated.

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freudling · Jul 4, 2007, 11:50 AM

I am an alien!

The sentence is fine, I excluded myself from the set of humans regarding people's that we are alone, hence "they". However, I then included myself in the "we" as I am a human.