# Alien are coming....tomorrow, Oct 14th **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700 "2008-10-13T12:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/61 "2008-10-17T12:38:15Z")
> [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](#): > > Thanks, all becomes clear now. This isn’t common practice in the UK, so apologies for my lack of understanding. Really, so the quick lube places (or Tesco? Do they do auto service like WalMart?) don’t slap stickers on your windshields? It’s pretty universal around here. At least the US places are mostly using the static plastic instead of adhesive. I remember having a stack of 7 - 8 stickers on my windshield and I could never scrape them all the way off after baking in the sun under glass for months. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/62 "2008-10-17T13:54:15Z")
> [@nd\_n8](#): > > Really, so the quick lube places (or Tesco? Do they do auto service like WalMart?) don’t slap stickers on your windshields? It’s pretty universal around here. > > At least the US places are mostly using the static plastic instead of adhesive. I remember having a stack of 7 - 8 stickers on my windshield and I could never scrape them all the way off after baking in the sun under glass for months. I’ve not noticed Tesco doing oil changes and unless another Brit can say otherwise not many places put stickers in the windscreens here. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/63 "2008-10-17T15:41:19Z")
Also, hardly anyone I know bothers getting their oil changed at all. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/64 "2008-10-17T18:14:23Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Also, hardly anyone I know bothers getting their oil changed at all. Well I have my car valeted every 3 months and my man always changes my oil…I think:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/65 "2008-10-17T18:45:02Z")
Well, when I figure long distance travel, I usually estimate 10 minutes per 100 km uncertainty for someone’s ETA before I start to worry. So, if the aliens are from the immediate galactic neighbourhood of, say, around 10 lightyears, I’d expect them to show up any time between now and about 18 million years in the future. We can probably leave the snacks in the fridge for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/66 "2008-10-17T19:53:08Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > ( Which makes me wonder…why was it called an **infant** ry? Doesn’t sound very threatening, does it? ) It’s from the Latin _infantem_ (youth) and refers to the fact that the first units to be dubbed “infantry” were composed of [soldiers too young and inexperienced to serve in the cavalry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry#History). > [@Jragon](#): > > Didn’t something really close to this make the rounds a couple years ago? I think it was more along the lines of “on \ think a positive thought some nondescript alien entity will be emanating a love field that will make positive thoughts come true.” It happened 21 years ago (more than “a couple”), but are you thinking of the [Harmonic Convergence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_Convergence)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700.md?page=3)