Comments on: I for one welcome our new "Controllers"

I for one welcome our new "Controllers"

monospace — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:00:21 -0800

It's official. The aliens are coming. In 2017. Turns out they might like The Beatles after all. The UN is on the case. The Hindus are going to be especially upset.

By: dobie

dobie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:25:15 -0800

I think a part of me believes that this was the original reason for the Internet.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:44:37 -0800

I want my minute back.

By: Class Goat

Class Goat — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:46:36 -0800

Apparently the Japanese aren't sure if, under the 1947 constitution, they could legally use the JDF to defend Japan against an invasion by aliens.

By: fnerg

fnerg — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:47:02 -0800

First 2010 was the year we were supposed to make contact, then it was 2013, THEN it was 2017. Next it's gonna be 2020, then it's never going to happen at all. I'm getting very impatient.

By: BorgLove

BorgLove — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:48:57 -0800

Goddammit, I want my raygun already!

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:49:22 -0800

An interview with the "trusted sources". Via "New Realities", YouTube's foremost "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" discussion program. See also his groundbreaking talk with Julia Ciaccio about "tailgating as a spiritual practice for serving humanity."

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:15:41 -0800

I, for one, am going to horde milk, let it spoil but good, and then open a bar.*

By: wendell

wendell — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:16:33 -0800

Think of it as like those crazy predictions of the date of The Rapture, but for atheists.

By: cashman

cashman — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:17:29 -0800

Goddammit, I want my raygun already! Unfortunately, you can have it.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:28:55 -0800

Think of it as like those crazy predictions of the date of The Rapture, but for atheists. The aliens are waiting on the rapture to thin out our numbers. But that can't happen until the New World Order is established. That isn't possible until a new single currency is in place to facilitate simple trade between all nations. That's only going to be set back if the next president doesn't support nafta. Vote McCain if you want to meet aliens!!!

By: mullingitover

mullingitover — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:30:01 -0800

The Canadians were on top of this years ago.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:44:15 -0800

I hope everything is in black and white when they come.

By: Henry C. Mabuse

Henry C. Mabuse — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:20:50 -0800

John Titor told me this is true.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:47:30 -0800

Dammit, I keep telling people that the aliens landed in 1999, conquered everything, probed all of our brains, stole the world's entire supply of transmogrium, and went back where they came from, but everybody tells me "You're crazy, I don't remember that." Of course you don't, you fool! THEY WIPED YOUR MEMORY! *finds new hiding place, waits for comment to disappear*

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:23:08 -0800

You're thinking of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, languagehat, I'm sure of it.

By: thecaddy

thecaddy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:50:19 -0800

Think of it as like those crazy predictions of the date of The Rapture, but for atheists. This reads like someone decided to make a Blair Witch-style version of the Fifth Book of Clarke

By: mkim

mkim — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:44:45 -0800

But wait - 2013 is after 2012 What then? What then?

By: Enron Hubbard

Enron Hubbard — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:10:09 -0800

Y'all are gonna feel real silly when 2017 rolls around... assuming we make it through 2008. Seriously, for years, in the good ole U.S. of A. it was against federal law to have any contact with an extraterrestrial... but not any more. (If anyone cares, I'll track down the exact law, but this is absolutely true.) Between all the wierd stuff that is going on and all the wierd stuff that goes on that we aren't told about, nothing would surprise me any more. I consider that UFOS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM FACING THE UNITED NATIONS next to the war in Vietnam."-- June, 1967. Statement by U.N. Secretary General U THANT, as quoted in the NEW YORK POST, June 27, 1967.

By: millardsarpy

millardsarpy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:49:29 -0800

Seriously, for years, in the good ole U.S. of A. it was against federal law to have any contact with an extraterrestrial... but not any more. (If anyone cares, I'll track down the exact law, but this is absolutely true.) Enron Hubbard, I'd like to know the federal law against contact with an extraterrestrial. Was it a NASA regulation?

By: Enron Hubbard

Enron Hubbard — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:39:03 -0800

The text of the law is available for your enjoyment, along with some commentary that contrasts the take by snopes, whose take on things suggests it only pertains to astronauts. Seems to me that it covers, but is not strictly limited to, astronauts who could could be "quarantined" for a time period to be determined later. Anybody that makes "contact" who tried to avoid quarantine is subject to a $5,000 fine and one year in federal detainment. It no longer is in effect. Seems the danger of extra-terran contamination is no longer thought to be a problem.

By: Reth_Eldirood

Reth_Eldirood — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:34:55 -0800

Seriously, for years, in the good ole U.S. of A. it was against federal law to have any contact with an extraterrestrial... but not any more. (If anyone cares, I'll track down the exact law, but this is absolutely true.) I'd be interested in seeing this, if for nothing else to share with friends over a drink and have a good laugh.