Yes, a lot of other things have transpired since the blunt announcement a couple of weeks ago by the British Defense Ministry that the national UFO hotline is being shut down. Tiger Woods’ serial infidelities, the White House party crashers, the surge in Afghanistan, and Al Gore’s latest projection about when the polar ice will melt (5-7 years).
Incidentally, these are all serious matters, not to be dismissed—including the global cooking of our world by greenhouses gasses and the bleak environmental future still in store for our grandchildren.
Is there no more call for mystery?
This is exactly why the sudden removal of a direct line to the Royal Air Force to report flying saucers, extraterrestrial life, and galactic phantoms is such a bummer—a real blow to the spirit. Since everything the Brits do, we do (Iraq, the Beatles, fish and chips), the next thing you know we’ll be canceling all the lines of communications to our various UFO reporting stations. Is there no more call for mystery?
And this, before anybody really gets a full explanation of what Nevada and New Mexico actually are.
Even though close to 70% of Anglos and Americans believe in some form of extraterrestrial life, the British government is shutting down the UFO hotline as a cost-cutting measure. (The United Kingdom will save about $73,000 a year by terminating this citizen-active program—that’s probably not even the cost of pet food per annum being consumed in the manifold royal palaces, Buckingham to Windsor and beyond).
And what of the weird and wonderful, the adventure, the longing to reconcile with the unknown, to discover peaceful life forms from this desperately war torn perch of earth? And if we haven’t actually detected or encounter other beings from the galaxies, there are a number of personages and items we have failed to pin down here on earth as well, including:
- Osama Bin Laden
- Jimmy Hoffa
- the real murderer in the original O.J. Simpson case
- all those missing chads in the 2000 presidential election
- the playoff system in the National Hockey League
Meanwhile, all those transponders being used to track aliens and flying saucers, besides being a whole lot of fun and wickedly exciting, might have done something to help those bone-headed, laptop-frozen Northwest pilots not overshoot the Minneapolis airport by some 150 miles a few weeks ago. One can think of so many reasons and uses to keep any kind of additional radar and alerts up in a world that somehow (disastrously) altogether missed THREE converted-to-guided-missiles civilian aircraft, filled with innocent people, jet fuel, and earthly aliens on Sept. 11. 2001.
Why turn off the lines to the stars and cosmos now?
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Comments
The rabbi is right and out of this world.
As my students "say" -- LOL.
Gosh, Ben...it's true that we don't know where Bin Laden is...IF he is. But everyone knows J. Hoffa was packed into a vat of chemicals and the whole mess later poured into the cement at The Meadowlands sports complex in New Jersey; the initials of the real OJ murderer are, quaintly enough, OJ; to be repetitive, WHAT missing chads? Finally, I would ask: is the National Hockey League anything like the national horse hockey league? Seriously, though, now that I live in Britland, where eccentricity is not only expected but condoned, I must adopt an aura of sadness that such a beloved institution has bitten the dust. As for the dog-food expenditures...yup. No doubt royal hounds sup well. But most peasants' dogs, including mine, go to the pub with their owners, and some of them drink bitters. Mine prefers Bailey's, perhaps because her real name (despite her being a muttly birth) is Lady Bronwen Marbella McGee. Just ask her.
It's a business here so it will never be discontinued. The same people that want to make us think Oswald killed JFK.
Blue light spirals over Norway. Boat shaped star clusters floating over Algeria right now. So what if there is nobody to call. Just hope when the truth is revealed it will make us all one again. Maybe this Christmas!
You left out "to boldly go"!
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