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UFO's. What's your take on them?

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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 18:31 on 29th June 2008

Hi Sue H, we had one here in Wheatley not many weeks ago! It was hanging around Wheatley like a bad smell, almost as if it had sort of 'lived here' in the past. I only spotted it the one time but I can tell you that it had a kind of greyish top, smallish, but very well presented. It was hanging around the POE HQ for a while and then went up 'the lane' where I think it felt really at home. Never saw it again, but you never know it may return one day!! 

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Sue H
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quotePosted at 20:40 on 29th June 2008

   to you Ron. Grayish top indeed  .

And it will indeed be back, you can count on that. We all have a date at The Peninsula if I remember rightly.

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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 21:13 on 29th June 2008
Blimey, didn't take you long to work that one out Sue, I trust you are well my friend?
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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 21:31 on 29th June 2008
As for the Chinese Peninsula Restaurant in Oxford.....only if you're paying!!!
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Sue H
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quotePosted at 22:24 on 29th June 2008

McDonalds then  .

 

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Peter Evans
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quotePosted at 23:45 on 3rd July 2008

If there is life on another planet, would we even recognise it? Life on earth is so diverse that given the billions of other planets and possibiliies, we may not even recognise a living thing. But, if they are so far advansed as to be able to travel the incredible distances to get here, wont they be inteligent enough to know what happens to a less advanced civilisation when encountering an advanced one?

Just remember what happened to the Aztecs. Wiped out by diseases they had no resistence to. The poor tribesmen up the amazon that are now nearly extinct due to being taken over by modern greed, or driven further and further from their hunting grounds. The damage done to less advanced peoples by so called advanced ones is trajic. Any visitors more evolved than us should realise this and just study us quietly from a distance. Maybe that is what they are trying to do, if they are here.

Could you imagine people from earth landing on another planet. They would plant a flag and say this is now part of earth. Then kill any locals that say it belongs to them. We are not yet ready for their technology.  Lets face it, most of our technology is being used to kill people and we dont need any more.

Here endeth the sermon. Sorry about that. Just my thoughts on the matter.

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Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 16:24 on 4th July 2008

Peter what you just posted reminds me of a quote from Eisenhower:

 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired

signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not

fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not

spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the

genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.  This is not a way

of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is

humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

                -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

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Peter Evans
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quotePosted at 20:38 on 4th July 2008
Yup, great minds think allike. He he.
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Ruth Gregory
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quotePosted at 21:09 on 4th July 2008

He was a pretty great mind, Peter.  I hate to diss the US of A on the 4th of July, but too bad we didn't follow his advice.

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Peter Evans
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quotePosted at 21:33 on 4th July 2008

The human race is nothing more than another speceis of animal. But, the human race is the only animal that kills for fun, sport and or gread. I think that makes us worse than so called wild animals.

I only hope that, if there are other life forms out there in space, they are not like us. But if they are, lets hope they pass us by.

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