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From: Stephen MILES Lewis <elfis@austin.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 14:43:46 -0600
Fwd Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:21:31 -0500
Subject: Poll - Americans Think Alien Life Coming Here

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Thursday November 11, 5:20 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Dateline:USA

Americans Think Intelligent Alien Life Coming Here, Poll
Shows

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Is there intelligent life
on other worlds? Does it resemble the tentacled uglies of
Independence Day' 'Star Wars'... or, maybe, the nine-foot tall,
gas-breathing Psychlos of L. Ron Hubbard's 'Battlefield Earth'?
And if extraterrestrials decide to visit Earth, will they come
as friend or foe?

A nationwide poll of nearly 1,500 people -- including a number
of leading astronomers and astrophysicists -- conducted by the
syndicated cable television show Dateline:USA found that more
than 70 percent of those surveyed believe there is intelligent
life in the universe, perhaps even in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Opinion was evenly divided on whether they would be hostile or
lovable if they came here, but nearly 80 percent were convinced
that alien technology would be more advanced than ours: it would
have to be to enable them to cross millions of light years of
space.

Sixty-five percent of the Dateline: USA respondents felt that
we'd be conquered or annihilated if an alien race invaded Earth,
while 26 percent were sure we would ultimately defeat the
invaders, no matter how technologically superior. Ten percent
had no opinion or felt they "wouldn't be around" to find out how
such a confrontation turned out.

Producers of the cable television show said the national survey
was inspired by a number of current developments: the continuing
success of the billion dollar 'Star Wars' empire, the production
of international alien invasion bestseller 'Battlefield Earth'
into a major motion picture -- starring John Travolta as the
alien villain -- and the launch of the Mars Polar Lander.

Dr. Yoji Kondo, astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center, told Dateline:USA that we "can't assume that the
thinking processes of another intelligent species on another
planet, revolving around an alien sun in another galaxy, would
be sure they'd even think it worthwhile to attack and plunder a
planet like Earth."

Astronomer, physicist and "Star Wars" author Kevin J. Anderson
contended that despite the views of many exobiologists "who is
to say that totally alien forms of life -- not based on our
carbon-cycle -- cannot be born in a sea of magnetic fields on
the surface of a star, or that civilizations of carbon-based
life similar to ours could not develop under oceans, flying high
in clouds, or burrowing underground?"

Virtually all the respondents to the survey agreed that alien
beings from other worlds will not 'look like us'. Opinions on
extraterrestrial shapes and sizes ran the gamut of tear or pear
shaped creatures and furred, taloned giants to winged lizards.

Adding the generally accepted footnote, Dr. Gregory Benford,
physics professor at UC Irvine, told the survey, "There are
certainly not just aliens, but intelligent aliens."

SOURCE: Dateline:USA