Regan wanted to discuss united defense against an alien invasion

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still_(1951_film)

Lou Cannon and Colin Powell believed the film inspired Ronald Reagan to discuss uniting against an alien invasion when meeting Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. Two years later, Reagan told the UN "I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."
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that's kinda awesome...but i'm confused, wasn't Regan a die hard Christian? it's obvious i don't know shit about him, but this just earned him 1 "cool point" from me.
 
I dont see why every one thinks that alien life would have to be technologically advanced. I mean , they could have flintlock rifles for all we know (assuming there is other life out there) and power space craft using cheese.
 
What does being a christian have to do with warning the world of something that could happen that would require all the world's nations to unite?

I'll give you a clue to what we really need to unite against.
spoiler: it's global warming.
 
Acepilotf14 said:
What does being a christian have to do with warning the world of something that could happen that would require all the world's nations to unite?
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well maybe because until recently Christianity didn't acknowledge alien beings.

I'll give you a clue to what we really need to unite against.
spoiler: it's global warming.
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LOL
 
Acepilotf14 said:
What does being a christian have to do with warning the world of something that could happen that would require all the world's nations to unite?

I'll give you a clue to what we really need to unite against.
spoiler: it's global warming.
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I was hoping that would say

Turns out it's man
 
Mech Man said:
I dont see why every one thinks that alien life would have to be technologically advanced. I mean , they could have flintlock rifles for all we know (assuming there is other life out there) and power space craft using cheese.
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Because an alien species that could in some form contact us would have to at least have developed and perfected radio communication, and even then by the time we detected them they would have developed for several decades more, depending on how far away they are. Less technologically advanced life is certainly as plausible as high-tech aliens, but they won't be discovered by us until we actually travel to those planets and get close enough to actually see their cities or villages or what have you, and at that point we will be close enough to blow them to dust for being so technologically inferior so it's a moot point.
 
AJ Rimmer said:
and at that point we will be close enough to blow them to dust for being so technologically inferior so it's a moot point.
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"You will bow down to the might of the Terran Empire or you shall cease to exist!"
 
Sorry I don't worship Futurama.
What episode is it from?
 
If we ever have to worry about an alien threat, we're already doomed, because they'd have to be seriously far ahead of us technologically to be able to make it here to invade us.
 
Ennui said:
If we ever have to worry about an alien threat, we're already doomed, because they'd have to be seriously far ahead of us technologically to be able to make it here to invade us.
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That's ****ing stupid, have you ever even seen Independence Day?
 
and how do we know they arent already here? *xfiles theme kicks in*

That's ****ing stupid, have you ever even seen Independence Day?
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yeah thats right we just send them a virus to theyr computers!

alien: hhhmm got new message,*opens message* "the pictures"? hmmm *dowloads file*
windows vista window: ERROR cddll sdjfmefue caused a grave error system must shutdown
antivirus: worn detected
alien: oh goddamed we got a virus,the invasion is canceled!
 
SHIT GUYS I THINK SOME GUY FROM NIGERIA GOT OUR BANK DETAILS

Awww man

Dude we're gonna blow up Nigeria, just keep firing!
 
Jintor said:
SHIT GUYS I THINK SOME GUY FROM NIGERIA GOT OUR BANK DETAILS

Awww man

Dude we're gonna blow up Nigeria, just keep firing!
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"alien commander: fire the annihilation canon!
alien operator: sir, the computer says we need to update the canons drivers in order to enable it.
alien commander: ugh..."
 
The Thing was an awesome movie. What ever happend to the TV series they was planing on making of it?
 
zombieturtle01 said:
WHAT NOW ****ERS?!
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...oh wait, they already tried that. D8
 
Ennui said:
If we ever have to worry about an alien threat, we're already doomed, because they'd have to be seriously far ahead of us technologically to be able to make it here to invade us.
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That's ****ing stupid, have you ever even seen War of the Worlds?
 
Well, the whole 'succumbing to illness' idea seems plausible enough to me, but if an alien life form was intelligent enough to find their way here and launch an invasion, they'd probably be able to account for such possibilities.

At the other end of the scale was Signs, in which the aliens turned out to be allergic to water. 70% of the planet is covered in it and the damn stuff falls from the sky on a regular basis, and an alien race that's allergic to it somehow fails to notice this before launching their invasion?

Fail.
 
MattyDienhoff said:
Well, the whole 'succumbing to illness' idea seems plausible enough to me, but if an alien life form was intelligent enough to find their way here and launch an invasion, they'd probably be able to account for such possibilities.

At the other end of the scale was Signs, in which the aliens turned out to be allergic to water. 70% of the planet is covered in it and the damn stuff falls from the sky on a regular basis, and an alien race that's allergic to it somehow fails to notice this before launching their invasion?

Fail.
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i believe we refer to such things with "that Hollywood for ya!"
 
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