Message from alien’s :
http://www.geocities.com/changetheworld_now/Changetheworld1.htm
Has anyone determined if this is a hoax?
Gee, what do you think?
More seriously, what information, knowledge or perspective has been provided here that couldn’t have come from any college kid who reads science fiction? What promise is being made–specifically, not just “we’ll show up and your life will get better?” And extraterrestrial beings are asking us to *vote * on whether they visit? Is this a game show? Will the aliens decide by simple majority? Or for such an important matter, will it require two-thirds? And is it a percentage of all people on the planet, or just of the ones who cast a vote? Suppose voter turnout is really low? And is there a deadline? Could we adopt this telepathic voting for our presidential elections?
Penn & Teller and the Amazing Randi often suggest this helpful guide to assessing such silliness:
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
Instead of asking someone to prove that it’s a hoax, try to prove that it’s true.
Good luck.
After travelling 100 gazillion miles across space, the best the alins can do is post a word document on a Geocities site? :dubious:
At least they learned to spell properly :).
tryout1 you’ll fit right in here, hope you stick around, welcome to the boards.
No one needs to because there is absolutely nothing to suggest that it is not a hoax.
Those aliens are from the planet alin. Or something. They left for Earth in the 1960’s.
Maybe so, but their syntax is contorted:
“Physically, we are somewhat different from you but for most of us humanoid-shaped.”
Gort! Klaatu Barada Nikto!
I’d be simply thrilled if Earth were visited by benevolent extraterrestrials; I’d even invite them to stay in my home. However, I’d be just a trifle disappointed if they started spouting such trite Cosmic Brotherhood wibble as is contained in the linked article. I honestly would expect them to think just a little differently from a student who just watched, and was deeply impressed by The Day The Earth Stood Still.
There are some clues to what advanced civilisations can teach us:
Evolution is in:
“There is no fundamental difference between you and us, save for the experience of certain stages of evolution.”
Is the Rapture safe?! :eek:
A useful **miltary technology ** here:
“You fail to apprehend us because we remain invisible to your senses and measure instruments most of the time.”
So if you measure your instruments, you become invisible!
Issue every soldier with a two rulers. Use one to measure the other. 
And the matrix was more than just a film… 
:
“The first way was chosen by a group of races motivated by keeping mankind in slavery, thereby controlling Earth resources, the gene pool and human emotional energy.”
Still it’s good to know that aliens have got Internet access. I wonder what the hourly rate to access alphacentuari.com is? :rolleyes:
Can you imagine how slow intergalactic dial-up must be?
And the ping times! Forget about setting up a VPN.
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft Office equipped overlords.
What, you don’t for one minute think that all the brotherly hippy speak isn’t a cover until they pull off their stretchy masks to reveal their inner lizards?
“Change the world by a first official e.t. encounter” from home page.
That and the overblown text satisfies my senses it is a sophmoric attemt to recruit followers.
Originally Posted by bcullman:
“Has anyone determined if this is a hoax?”
[Sherlock Holmes mode ON] If not a hoax, how did the aliens pay for the web address? [Sherlock Holmes mode OFF]
Message from alien’s what?
And what’s this talk about paying for a web address? It’s at geocities.
Here’s the part that bugs me:
This seems to be saying that bcullman is both irrelevant (for which I have little evidence) and anonymous (which seems not to be the case). I’m starting to wonder whether I should take this document seriously.
I vote NO to the aliens visiting Earth.
They sound like a bunch of wankers.
Well don’t they have to pay for internet access?
Or do they know something we don’t? :eek:
This page shows that the message was “received” and written by someone named Jean Ederman:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=57050
and this site says he’s unavailable for comment, as he has flown away in an alien spacecraft:
http://www.tracieaustin.com/viewarticle.asp?ID=26
Well I think that about clears this question up…
OK I thought I was done but you guys HAVE TO check this page out - it’s written by our friend Jean Edermnan aka Eric Julien.