If Lincoln had been a robot....

My opponent has done an amazing job at demonstrating his presentation of aliens is of the kind to be taken seriously. I accept it is not of the conspiracy sort. My opponent questions Star Treks sovreinty in its reign of most superior syfy lore, viewing that the prime directive is not what the superior space faring alien culture would have during the civil war. I will hope my fellow trekies will take sides over this by voting for me. I could quote more movies and such as well that would fit with my presentation of the relation ship with aliens, man, and robots, as my opponent has done, to discredited his claims. However they all pall in comparison to the very real history he brought up not created in films on aliens. Before we consider what movies imaginativeness is to be taken most seriously in defining aliens (that would be Star Trek), we must accept real events like the crash in Roswell to remain soverin. From looking at what my opponent has shown I must say I accept that they are interested in abducting us, and that they are grey skinned. I do not question that they say 'we have the right to do this'. But I do question that we can so easily say its a reference to a law that our robot president put in place. It is quite likely they believe they have the right to do so for the same reasons we believe we have the right to capture tigers and train them to go through hoops at circuses, or dissects bugs to see how they work, or capture a monkey and put a chip in his forehead and see him move a robot arm with its mind. http://www.youtube.com... http://www.youtube.com... They view its there right just cause we are primitive inferior animals to them. This would explain why they do it often as they do because it parralels about as often as we do to animals. under this concept we see that aliens would still not donate a robot linkoln because the motive is gone. they do not need a presidential signiture to take humans. We dont ask the creatures we put in zoo's if thats were they would like to live. they have no say or right as far as were concerned. Also all that you have proven about aliens show they interested in examining our biology, but the abductions do not show they are interested in interfering with our politics. I would like to point out concerning the Merrimac that it was never destroyed in battle. Nethier was Norths Iron Clad for that matter. It took a huricane to topple one Iron Clad and a paranoid crew to destroy the other. So if you buld a tank thats so strong no other contry can penitrate its hull you would not bother building it to so that it wouldent be spotted because the enemy can do nothing about it if they do see it exept run. at the time that was level of supierority the Merrimac had. even the other Iron Clad couldnt sink it. Cannon balls just bounced of either of their hulls. Although I concead your point that it would be more reasonble for the south to take to airplanes if they really were going to push tech farther than established at the time. You claim in our own time though we ourselves cannot build robots that pass as humans. I understand your point was to discredit that it could ever be done back then but for my argument its important I dont let that pass. If you would view the videos I put you will see we are a lot farther than you think. That robots face is very realistic. And even if their is still room for improvement to be fooled today back in Lincolns day it would be rediculous to suspect that if something like that was talking to you that it wasnt a real human. If youve seen the movie 'Surragets' youll note that because of the monkey in the upper video we really are but a stone throw away from robots like that. Easily controled with our mind, If one made a lincoln robot they could download into it and move about as if they really were abraham lincoln. Now such a degree of technollogy is ofcourse still a little ways of (but not much) and while we are making advances in that field, along side it we also progress in physics and our understanding of time and space. By the we get to the point of succefully time travleing, these realistic robots will be accesable to us. in fact for the early timetravle experments it would be expected that we use surraget like bots to startwith so that if something happens to it in the time travle the robot is destroyed, not the human. Time travleing Companies would insist you dont even go into the room with the time machien in it without opporating a surraget just so HOSHA does not sue them for lack of safty regulations. But what man could possible have the motive to go into that room with the Lincoln Surraget that he got for teaching his history class, and would be motivated to take it back in time? Did you know often in countries the war never realy ends. France and Britain still hate the Germans. I have personally been in enough whight trash stands at flee markets to know that for many one day the South will Rise Again! They hold onto that pride even to this day. And if such a man (or woman) when to the past in a Lincon Surraget what do you think they would do with it. Try and Change the outcome of the Civil War. Such would be easy even if they didnt do something outlandishly different from lincon. Such as giving the Emanclipation Proclimation at a earlyier time. After Lincon had given that speach, some states like Ohio were on the verge of succesion themselves because for them the war about keeping the Union of the states and Lincon just ticked them of by makeing it about Slavery as a political move (even if thats not how his speech should be characterized thats how they reacted). Luckaly though a major victory in battle occured shortly afterwards and smoothed the tensions of those states over, stange how a victory can do that. Had they lost and Ohio succeaded (with other norhtweaster territory states) and joined the C.S.A that most certainly would have helped there cause, turning the tide of the war. All a Lincoln imposter would have to would be give the Speech at an earlier time when they new a major Confederate victory would follow. And thats Just one thing you could do. He could also make a big deal about refusal to enact mashal law as if was immoral and thus Kentuky succeads with the South from the git-go. Then there is the desicion to never switch to grant as his lead general. and at some losing point in the war just give in. So in conclusion 1) all movie/TV magic aside, the aliens we know about are unlikely to build a robot lincoln, they are only concerned with abducting us to analize our biology. We do not care what wolf is alfadog in any pack running around the country, they do not care what our president say's. 2) movies and TV not aside, Star Treck rules! :) 3) Even if it could never be built back then, it could be built now (or very soon) and the only person with motive to bring it to the past is one of my ignorant redneack brethren here in Dixiland that would highjack his way into the past in a lincoln robot. 4) the merrymac was not poorly built (for that era) And of course given the above, the South would have won.