From: vere@netcom.com (Steven Vere)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: What Do You Think?
Summary: Demoralization of Scientists by Alien Confirmation
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:58:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep29.173457.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>, crago_l@cubldr.colorado.edu writes:
> I'm going to quote an ex-CIA official because I would like very much
> to see what people on the net think of his views.
> 
> He says ....*we have, indeed, been contacted...by extraterrestrial beings, 
> and the U.S. government, in collusion with the other national powers of the
> earth, is determined to keep this information from the general public.
> The purpose of the international conspiracy is to maintain a workable stability
> among the nations of the world and for them, in turn, to retain institutional
> control over their respective populations. Thus, for these governments to
> admit that there are beings from outer space...with mentalities and
> technological
> capabilities obviously far superior to ours, could, once fully perceived
> by the average person, erode the foundations of the earth's traditional
> power structure. Political and legal systems, religions, economic and
> social institutions could all soon become meaningless in the mind of the
> public.
> 
> WOULD the mass of people go completely ape if it was established that UFOs
> and Visitors are real?  I can't quite make up my mind.  Let's have some
> discussion on this and see what peoples's views are.
> 
> Regards, Lou Crago
> 

   I'd  like  to confine  my  comments   to the effect   of   OFFICIAL
confirmation of aliens  on the scientific community.  Scientists would
be demoralized to  a  devastating    degree.   
   Let's say  you are a  scientific demigod at Stanford.  You've spent
your best years working 70 hours a week to become the  expert in, say,
high temperature  superconductors.   You're  on national    boards and
committees, you   have  lucrative  consulting arrangements  with major
corporations, maybe your own company with  stock holdings.  You bought
a vacation  home on Maui two years   ago.   You're talking  to Clinton
staffers about  FY94  "investment"  in  a    National  Superconduction
Research Center, of which you will be the director.  In  short, you're
fat and happy.
   Now  George Bush, who will do anything to win the election, holds a
national press conference and lays  it all  out.  The ultimate October
surprise.  Aliens are real.   They are a  million years ahead of us in
science.  They are willing to share their knowledge with us.  He shows
photos, video tapes, trots out an NSA  spook  to field questions.  And
of course he takes credit for reaching the secret diplomatic agreement
with the Aliens.
  How  is  our hypothetical Stanford luminary going to take this?  For
him  it is a personal  CATASTROPHE!  Yes, he would  like  to learn the
secrets of the universe,  but his  life is  in ruins.  Superconduction
theory is now irrelevant,  childlike.   His  scientific and  financial
position has  evaporated.  The  next  day  in  a graduate seminar, his
students want to know why they should bother finishing the course when
it is now all useless drivel.  And they're right.
   The universities, industrial research labs, DARPA, and the National
Science Foundation people are totally demoralized, in chaos.  Everyone
has  to go  back  to  kindergarten.  Fine if  you  are six years  old,
catastrophic if you are  40  or 50,  like everyone  in the  scientific
power structure.

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  Steven Vere                                       vere@netcom.com  
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