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A Denver man…wants to ask voters to create a commission dealing with space aliens.
“It is important because if you’re driving down the highway and you saw a crash of a small spaceship and a car or a bus full of kids, you really wouldn’t know what to do,” Jeff Peckman said. “Do you wait for the hazardous materials experts to show up because of potential contaminants from another solar system? What do you do? People really don’t know.”
Peckman, 54, who is single and lives with his parents, has submitted to the city a draft of the proposed ordinance, which would require the creation of an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission.
According to the proposal, the 18-member ET commission would “create a responsible, common-sense strategy for dealing with issues related to the presence of extraterrestrial beings on Earth,” among other tasks.
The Denver City Council will hold a meeting on the ballot initiative at 2 p.m. Thursday in Room 391 of the City and County Building. The meeting is open to the public.
You don’t want to miss it. Bring your camera.
Thanks, Helen
I think this says it all.
“Peckman, 54, who is single and lives with his parents, has submitted to the city a draft of the proposed ordinance…”
Yep that’s a qualified person for this kind of legislation.
I would love to be there for this oen so I shoot down every one of his ideas for the city council.
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>>I think this says it all.
Hey, how do you know he’s not caring for his elderly parents in the autumn of their lives? Must you immediately assume that he’s a 54yo fruitcake who never moved out of mama’s basement?
As to his proposed ordinance, feh. Oh a scale of evil government action from 1 – 10, this one seems to rate about minus 1.5; it’s not clear that it costs anything, or that anything will actually be done, he just wants to have a committee draft standards for what to do if little green men start running around the streets. Do we shoot them? Offer them a beer and some buffalo wings? Drop a nuclear bomb on them?
Over 5,000,000 people have donated cycles of their computers’ CPU for SETI@home, and the US gumming contributed money to set SETI up in the early days. That sounds like much more of a committment to the existence of ETs than writing a 1-page guideline documenting recommended practices to follow if Martians land in your back yard.
My prediction: Some guy from Buenos Aires will say we should kill them all.
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How can you write up guidelines before knowing whether these aliens will be friend or foe?
Used to be a big worry they would come here for our natural resources but everything is available “out there.”
The only thing available on earth and no where else is – – – – our women.
I see these aliens like aliens everywhere treating our global community as just an intergalactic Tijuana on a National Holiday.
No good can come of it.
>>How can you write up guidelines before
>>knowing whether these aliens will be
>>friend or foe?
Contingency planning, Bobster
IF X then Y
IF Z then something else
Just send the extraterrestrial aliens to Gitmo. Then we won’t have to worry about them for six years or so.
#8—Mustard, that sounds to complicated to me. Guide lines should not require “decision making.” You should just follow the guidelines blindly otherwise you’ll get confused.
I’d say shoot them to be safe, but I’m not from Brazil.
>>Mustard, that sounds to complicated to me.
>>Guide lines should not require “decision
>>making.”
Bobster, must you argue just for the sake of argument? Sheesh.
Heres a guideline for ya:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
How do you think that compares in complexity with
“if they’re pointing phasers at you, shoot them, if they’re offering beer and buffalo wings, don’t”??
#3, Mr. Mustard, well said.
I want a ride first, let’s see if we can do some aerobatics in their ship. After we scare the bejeezus out of Colorado Springs and NORAD, then we’ll decide about the hot wings and a cold brewski. 🙂
#12 – Ah, always the voice of reason, Mr. Ray! I’ve never had much of a wish to fly in an alien spaceship, but if they could do barrel rolls…maybe! They look like fun.
[so off topic it’s from an alien world]
Mr. Mustard, you’re on. The last passenger I flew for a 10 minute routine said, in flight, “Oh, c’mon, 5 more minutes.” After jumping out and hurling for 5 minutes, he said, “Let’s go again!” All aliens get a discount!
I bet he goes to every Trek Con he can, and he even has the Shirts to prove it !!!
Or we could let the Air Farce handle it, just like the Area 51 Incident !!! You may also have seen the Air Farce Commercials about “Space Command” protecting America from “Terrorist Meteors” and such !!! Great way to waste taxpayers dollars !!!
I’m sure the federal government already has such plans in place. No need to deal with on the local level.
>>I’m sure the federal government already has
>>such plans in place.
Due to national security concerns, no doubt, the federal government has not shared the plans with me or my neighbors. So we need to know, at the local level, what to do; do we shoot, or do we break out the brewskis and wings?
I’m sure they’ll be watching us from the streetlight-cams to make sure we behave in an appropriate manner.
“SETI Committee of the International Academy of Astronautics It has also been endorsed by the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Space Law.”
The Post-Detection SETI Protocol
http://www.coseti.org/setiprot.htm
The point above all others is why put in a contingency plan when there are no extraterrestrials coming?
This is again humans thinking they are at the center of the smegging universe again. Oh the space aliens they want our women, food, water, chuck berry albums, etc. We are so effin important that surely aliens will come here.
Face it people we are like rednecks in the hills of West Virginia to the galaxy.
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20. Likewise bacteria, but we study them too. Sometimes just to ward off a bad infection.
Slightly OT: I note that in 1977 Voyager was sent out into space with a bit of a “time capsule” of humanity, should any alien race discover it a billion years or so in the distant future.
What humiliates you most about this?
1. Depictions of nude humans were not allowed (so as not to embarrass the aliens?). (Almost missed adding “Depictions of…”)
2. EMI Music would not let the project include The Beatles “Here Comes The Sun” (because of future copyright concerns?)
3. We sent a phonograph record. (That should impress them with our technology.)
RBG
It is possible that he lives at home to care for his parents, but regardless of that this guy has a track record of nuttiness. He has previously tried to have passed a mandatory stress reduction program for the city as well. I don’t know about the rest of you, but people actively trying to unstress me does not help.
And for good measure here’s the words straight from the Mouth of Jeff Peckman…
“I certainly believe that they visit somewhat frequently. I don’t know that they’re walking around the streets of LoDo – others might disagree with that. But they do seem to have made their presence known all over the world to a lot of people.”
Theres donating time and money to SETI and then there is going to Roswell for the “authentic” experience. This guy is in Roswell. If he is caring for his elderly parents that are unable to care for themselves, someone should save them from him before he falls the rest of the way off the sanity wagon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1G-TsdNWGg
“Must you immediately assume that he’s a 54yo fruitcake who never moved out of mama’s basement?”
Yup.