# Several kinds of aliens plan to conquer mankind, and they have offices to do their planning **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163 "2024-12-04T18:31:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/21 "2024-12-05T14:49:13Z")
Just to decide the name: It’s based on canon law terminology, which designates the holders of certain offices in ecclesiastical organisations as “superiors” and then distinguishes between “major superiors” and “minor superiors”, based on the rank of the holder. It’s possible for a woman to be a major superior; e.g. the abbess of a women’s convent would have the same rank as a bishop (though not the same sacramental power) and hence be a major superior. But this conference only caters to major superiors in men’s Catholic organisations. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/22 "2024-12-08T23:52:40Z")
Could be worse. Could be pickleball ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/23 "2024-12-09T00:01:55Z")
I recall one episode of M\*A\*S\*H where Mulcahey had gotten some orders he didn’t like from his superiors, which led Hawkeye to quip that he didn’t know there were Father Superiors. ---
**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/24 "2024-12-09T00:05:45Z")
Thread winner! ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/25 "2024-12-10T02:00:50Z")
I cannot recall who said it–some very well known Hungarian scientist who said that there were already aliens among us, they call themselves Hungarians. I met Paul Erdos a few times and I agree. Definitely alien. (And I have an Erdos number of 2.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163/26 "2024-12-10T02:05:57Z")
> **[The Martians (scientists)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists))** > > "The Martians" (Hungarian: "A marslakók") were a group of prominent scientists (mostly, but not exclusively, physicists and mathematicians) of Hungarian Jewish descent who emigrated from Europe to the United States in the early half of the 20th century. > Leo Szilard, who jokingly suggested that Hungary was a front for aliens from Mars, used this term. In an answer to the question of why there is no evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth (called the Fermi paradox) despite the high probability o... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/several-kinds-of-aliens-plan-to-conquer-mankind-and-they-have-offices-to-do-their-planning/1011163.md?page=1)