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(link)I would not have heard anything about this had I not heard it on Fox news channel this morning. Basically what this man, Jeff Peckman, is suggesting is that we have a commission of panel of experts to “create a responsible, common-sense strategy for dealing with issues related to the presence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth.”

The Fox News anchors took their turns at cracking jokes and making fun of him, which I think was the only reason why he was brought on the show. This in itself pissed me off. Are we as a country that idiotic to assume that we are alone in this galaxy? Even Carl Sagan, the renowned astronomer, never denied that we should always continue to search and study all claims of UFO’s. While he stated that we have no evidence that extra-terrestrials had ever visited us or will in the near future, we would be fools not to study all of the evidence given.

So these Fox News anchors asked him about how many people thought he was crazy, and if he was a moon-bat, and lampooned his efforts to suggest something that, our Federal government has already done. So are we saying that because our Federal government has done some research that our local governments should not even broach a subject? We have trained emergency response teams for all sorts of things, should not local civic planners at least consider the implications of every “what-if” scenario that they can come up with in order to not be faced with the scenario and not have some guidelines?

In fact that many cities and towns across America did not ever think that someone would fly some planes into the buildings in New York. But now across America small towns now include contingency plans on the happen stance that terrorists would try to destroy a building or a plant or a factory in their humble corner of their state. So given something like this – do we have to wait until an event happens before we at least give some thought to the civic duty of at least developing some sort of plan?

All this man is really suggesting is that we as citizens write up how we should handle situations. Logically it makes sense. We plan for outbreaks of super diseases, asteroids hitting the planet, etc. Why would you want to deny that we should at least discuss a common sense approach to how we could deal with the situation as far-fetched as it may seem.

I guess what bothers me is that people can be so dismissive and close minded that they don’t look at the logical aspects or possibilities. The fact is that we really don’t know our real probabilities of being visited. In the absence of evidence we don’t know if we have in the past or will in the future but we all are truly morons if we are arrogant enough to assume that we are the only ones out of the vastness space out of the billions of billions of stars and solar systems.