Has anyone been following this UFO crap that Larry King

[ecstatic]

has been pushing?

[gateley]

1. No. But I don't think it's crap. nt

[Orrex]

2. Interplanetary Garlique?

Helps turn a gas giant into a minor eructation?

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

3. Can't stand Larry !

[Bright Eyes]

4. Whats he been saying?

It's probably the ramblings of an old man....

[Le Taz Hot]

33. Because everyone knows that "old men"

have nothing important to say. Same thing for "old women." What's the cutoff these days? 25? 30? :sarcasm:

[ProfessorGAC]

37. That's An Easy Question

The answer is that anyone who is 2 years older than me is an "old man" who rants without reason.

That's my answer and i'm sticking to it.
The Professor

[karlrschneider]

5. Hey, if it weren't for alien probes, he'd have nothing whatever to smile about!

:evilgrin:

[rasputin1952]

6. No...is the Mother Ship returning to pick him up?

Got a link?

FWIW...I beleive that there are things we do not yet know, understand or comprehend...UFO's are among them.

[rpannier]

7. Because there is nothing else to talk about in the world

Afghanistan is a hotbed of friendship and singing.

Iraq is rife with goodwill toward all mankind.

Kenyans are out in the street singing chorus after chorus of Kumbayah

Poverty -- nonexistant

Israel and Palestine are talking about merging their two states into 1 --> Isrestine or Palrael

The US economy is so incredibly sound that by years end everyone will be a homeowner

North Korea closed all of their gulags and are preparing for free and open elections next week

Musharif is ceding power in Pakistan

Mubarak is stepping down for free elections in Egypt.

The Serbs and Kosovarian Muslims have come to a power-sharing agreement that will bring eternal happiness and friendship

Global warming is completely over.

Whatever else could he talk about???

:sarcasm:

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Besides, he's waiting for the next actor/actress to pass away so he can do a week long story on it.

[spanone]

8. klaatu barado nikto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfpSXI8_UpY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0se1QBBOso&NR=1

[BeatleBoot]

9. You are killing me over here....killing me....

klaatu barado nikto back at ya'.......

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[The Straight Story]

10. Better than the political crap, hollywood crap etc

imho :)

[TankLV]

11. now that comment was below the belt...

sorry - my partner like to watch the "ghost hunters" crap on SciFi...

I like the "uSo" crap myself...it's - so - different!

and the stories are - so - different!

really...

they are...

I swear...

[Phoonzang]

12. The only crappy thing about it is King's

penchant for presenting this complex subject in 5 minute segments and with too many speakers. And sandwiching the content between silly intros featuring weird music and clips of 50s space invader movies.

King has been interested in UFOs for a long time. I with he'd do another one of this UFO specials like he did back in the early 90s and stop with the shallow segments.

[Justice Is Comin]

19. You are so right about

what King does and for that matter what everybody else does that airs UFO related progamming. They play some typical UFO crap music left over from Flash Gordon and wonder why so many people don't take it seriously.

All those naysayers should understand, there were military officers on King's panel that we entrusted with the defense of our country. They aren't publicity seeking loons.

When one of those guys tells me that 20 nuclear minute man missiles were rendered totally disabled from being launched at the same time a craft unlike anything they had ever seen was over their facilities, that is serious stuff.

He said there is no access from anywhere other than the control center located deep underground and operated by him at the time, for anyone or anything that should have been able to do that. His missiles were totally useless until that craft left the scene.

Call me whatever you want, but something exists far beyond our wildest imagination that needs some serious congressional investigations, not wacko music.

[Toots]

31. Well one thing is for sure there is far more credible evidence for UFOs than for Christ

and I believe there are far more believers in UFOs than in Christ as well.

[Javaman]

40. Oh sure there is proof of christ...

just check out this link....

http://tntu.net/todd-tyler-show-discussion/7145-jesus-image-golden-retriever.html

snicker snicker... :spray: :rofl:

[alarimer]

13. I'm glad he at least had Michael Shermer on there

Someone credible to debunk all the UFO nonsense.

Whatever it was they saw it was not an alien craft, I am certain of that.

[Big Blue Marble]

27. And why are you so sure?

Have you listened to the witnesses? Like the metal worker who saw a craft three hundred feet over
his head in the middle of the day. He estimated this craft to be over a thousand feet in length.

[MilesColtrane]

14. United Flatulating Octogenarians?

I guess Larry's trying to build up his fan base.

[Rageneau]

15. Don't scoff! It's obvious that spineless aliens have taken over the bodies of Reid and Pelosi.

[seemslikeadream]

16. Millennium Simulation: "The largest model of our Universe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35SYkfdGtw


Millennium Simulation:
The Virgo consortium, an international group of astrophysicists from the UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and the USA has today (June 2nd) released first results from the largest and most realistic simulation ever of the growth of cosmic structure and the formation of galaxies and quasars. In a paper published in Nature, the Virgo Consortium shows how comparing such simulated data to large observational surveys can reveal the physical processes underlying the build-up of real galaxies and black holes.

PLEASE READ: A parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. The length of the parsec is based on the method of trigonometric parallax, one of the oldest methods for measuring the distances to stars.

The name parsec stands for "parallax of one second of arc", and one parsec is defined to be the distance from the Earth to a star that has a parallax of 1 arcsecond. The actual length of a parsec is approximately 3.262 light-years.

Music by,
Pink Floyd: "Learning to Fly" is the second song on Pink Floyd's album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The song is written largely by David Gilmour. It describes Gilmour's thoughts on flying, for which he has a passion, although some commentators have read it as a metaphor for Gilmour's feelings about striking out as the new leader of Pink Floyd after Roger Waters' departure which Gilmour confirmed on the Pink Floyd 25th Anniversary Special in May of 1992. Also an avid pilot, drummer Nick Mason's voice can be heard in the middle of the song. The song is the first CD-only single to be released on a global scale. "Learning to Fly" was included on Pink Floyd's greatest hits collection Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.



Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladen, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

[LiberalMandrake]

17. UFOs, ETs: Why do CNN, FOX & co try so hard to convince children and naive that they exist?

UFOs, ETs: Why do CNN, FOX & co try so hard to convince children and naive that they exist?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=illuminati+jokes+blogspot+ufos

[soothsayer]

28. Oh, I forgot--we're at the top of the food chain, and are the smartest, most advanced life forms

the universe. Must remember. Humans RULE!

[Elwood P Dowd]

18. It's Connie Mitchell's fault.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7cNI-0Ozr4

[frogmarch]

20. Carl Sagan speaks (1968 UFO Symposium):

http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/sagan.html

Excerpts from his address:

There are individuals who very strongly want to believe that UFO's are of intelligent extraterrestrial origin. Essentially to my view, for religious motives; that is, things are so bad down here, maybe somebody from up there will come and save us from ourselves. This takes all sorts of subtle and not so subtle forms. There are also predisposing emotional factors in the other direction; people who very much want to believe UFO's are not of intelligent extraterrestrial origins, because that would be threatening to our conception of us as being the pinnacle of creation. We would find it very upsetting to discover that we are not, that we are just a sort of two-bit civilization.

It is clear that the scientific method says you don't take either of those views, and you simply keep an open mind and pursue whatever facts are at hand with as many diverse hypotheses as possible, and try to eliminate each suggested hypothesis, and see if you are lucky with any one.

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So the distances between the stars are extremely large. Of course, any contemporary space vehicle would take a ridiculous amount of time to get from here to anywhere else, but we are not talking about contemporary space vehicles. The question, "Is there any conceivable method of traveling from one place to another very close to the speed of light, and therefore get reasonable transit times?" involves extrapolations of technology of a very difficult sort. However, let me merely say at least some people who have looked into the subject have concluded that it is not out of the question, even with contemporary principles of science, to imagine vehicles capable of traveling close to the speed of light, between the stars. This doesn't mean that it happens. There may in fact be insuperable engineering difficulties we don't know about, but there is nothing in the physics that prohibits interstellar space flight.

So any estimate of how likely it is that we would be visited by an extraterrestrial intelligent civilization, depends not only on how many of them are there, but on what kind of transport they have, and how often they launch their space vehicles, even very optimistic estimates for all these numbers, gives a conclusion that an advance civilization comes here very rarely. But I again emphasize the great uncertainty in any of these numerical estimates, as they involve parts of science we don't know very much about.

~

Me: I don't believe UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, but I refuse to dismiss the however-remote possibility that some of them might be.

[Lorien]

22. You have a far more enlightened attitude toward the subject than many

around here do. Me: I wish that I had the luxury of believing that they didn't exist. :-(

[spindoctor]

25. The keyword her is "imagine"

It may not be hard to imagine travel near the speed of light, but that doesn't make it possible. Apart from the practical problems, I don't know what Carl's idea of "reasonable transit times" is, but most people get annoyed during an extended layover at the airport. Aliens who put up with years and years (and years...) of travel, just to make a stealthy appearance over Texas may not quite be the extraterrestrial intelligence we are hoping for.

[Duer 157099]

21. To me, people who offhandedly dismiss UFOs as "crap"

are equivalent to those who don't think Bush has done anything wrong.

In both cases, these people just do not want to critically examine evidence -- they find it much easier to just stand by their convictions no matter what anybody else says.

[soothsayer]

29. yes indeedy!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. Agreed! eom

[Blue-Jay]

34. yeah. Those two things are exactly alike.

:rofl:

[conspirator]

36. I specially love those who use the rofl smilie on this subject

:sarcasm:

They think they are superior people with the feet on the ground while everyone else is a conspiracy freak.
They probably also believe that Iraq was invaded because of WMDs and that the bush government never deliberately ommited the truth to the american people.
Even if these UFOs are men made, they are obviously amazing technology, and any man with half a brain would want to find out
more about them.

[Blue-Jay]

38. :(

I specially love those who use the sarcasm smilie. If you have to use that smilie, you're not doing it right.

Now excuse me as I need to call the mothership...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

41. Really?

Because I was thinking that the kind of people who believe in UFOs were the sort of people who believed in WMDs.

[Jack Sprat]

23. One decent Larry King show

and you didn't like it. In 25 years of coddling and utter nonsense, he finally has a series on a topic that some of us find interesting....and you..dohhhhh!

[Ravy]

24. When Lou Dobbs figures out that the UFO inhabitants may be undocumented...

CNN will get two shows per night of this...

[radfringe]

26. with the satellite losing power and predicted to fall to earth

what would the odds be that a piece of it would hit bush/cheney?

( http://www.tv.com/dead-like-me/show/16840/summary.html
18-year-old George Lass (Ellen Muth) dies when a toilet from the MIR space station falls from the sky and hits her. However, soon she discovers that afterlife really does exist... she becomes a reaper - she helps in catching the souls of people moments before they're destined to die. )

[MilesColtrane]

35. Bush and Cheney are already reapers.

They've easily dispatched more souls than the entire Dead Like Me cast.

[unapatriciated]

32. What I saw was a discussion about the recent lights in Texas.

The Airforce first denied being in the area and now admit they were. One guest was suggesting that the govt. was responsible for the lights. He believed it was experimental aircraft. He went on to state that he believed the majority of unexplained sightings(since the 40's) fell in that category. When the airforce representative was question on the Texas incident, he stated the airforce was in the area on maneuvers. When asked to explain the claims of lights and what seemed to be a very large and fast craft that made no noise. He reverted to the military line of the public will be informed on "the need to know" basis's. He went on to suggest that the military were involved in research using alternative fuel. He was then asked why he didn't think that the public had the right to know the government had a viable alternative fuel. He reverted back to "the need to know" answer. I never watch King but this came on after the primary coverage. What I found interesting was the one guest was not suggesting little green men were running around. He thought it was men in blue and khaki who were and are involved with many of these sightings. The spokesman from the airforce seemed to confirm his suspicions but just didn't want to give details. He used the "need to know" answer several times.

[applegrove]

39. That and crime stories are when I turn LK off.