In news:y26bfhqk3sbq$.gcvo0yrvar9a.dlg@40tude.net,
Tom Giarmo <TomGiarmoI@use.net> typed:

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:40:19 GMT, Amanda Angelika wrote:

Aliens, otoh, who knows but one has to step back and try very hard
to rationalize that intelligence capable of light year travel would
somehow arrive here without a plan, an agenda and a very strong
sense of being successful.

Yes and that is the difficulty I have with the notion that aliens
are in contact with World governments. On the one hand it is claimed
they condemn things such as Nuclear Weapons and our reliance on
fossil fuels, warn us of imminent disaster if we don't change our
ways and yet at the same time uphold the very system they are said
to oppose.

It doesn't take an alien to see the damage that we are causing on
this poor planet of ours, does it?

Very true. :)
-- 
Amanda