From: mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au (Mark Deitch)
Subject:  the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Reply-To: mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
Date: 17 Nov 92 02:46:03 GMT

Stephen Kuhn <SWK105@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

 >From: Rob Farquhar, temp. using this account.
 >    It's amazing how little you people really know about what you're talking ab
 >out.  this is not arrogance, but experience talking.  I am a scientist/astronom
 >er as well as a contactee.  First of all, let me tell you a little about stars.
 >  Don't let anybody tell you that the aliens come from the Pleidaes cluster. Th
 >ose stars are far to young.  They just emerged from the nebula a few million ye
 >ars ago, and they're too young, and too close together for planets to form.
 >  The same goes for stars like Sirius and Rigel, except that they're too big an
 >d too hot.
 >  Dwarf stars like Barnard's star are too small and too cold, and their "life z
 >ones"(the boundaries within which a livable planet can form) are too near their
 > surfaces.
 >  The best stars to find life around are yellow main sequence stars like our ow
 >n sun- not too hot, not too cold, not too prone to flares. There are several st
 >ars within the nearest 100 light years that fit this description. They are:
 >  ALPHA CENTAURI A
 >  ALPHA CENTAURI B
 >  EPSILON ERIDANI
 >  61 CYGNI A
 >  61 CYGNI B
 >  EPSILON INDI
 >  TAU CETI
 >  NU CASSIOPEA
 >  PHI ORIONI
 >  BETA TRIANGULUM AUSTRALE
 >  ALPHA HYDRI
 >  GAMMA VIRGONIS
 >  ALPHA CIRCINUS
 > BETA CAPRICORNI.
 >I won't tell you which of these has life around it, that would be cheating.
 >But I know.  You see, I was "picked up" for the first time several years ago, a
 >nd taken to a small world one-eighth of the way around the galaxy. It is inhabi
 >ted by the Darvosians, the "little grey men" of myth and legend.  They are non-
 >hostile, and very interested in the development of other species. They were mos
 >t cooperative and instructing (by the way, faster-than-light travel makes human
 >s nauseous).  They informed me of the existence of the twelve starfaring races
 >of the galaxy (those species which have developed ftl travel. They include:
 >  The Abercan, a reptilian race reminiscent of hooded cobras
 >  The Darvosians, grey humanoids descended from (nobody knows)
 >  The Kaheew, a catlike warrior race kind of like Niven's fictional KZIN
 >  The N'gusat-ahh, bovine centaurlike creatures
 >  The Farhipti, other grey beings descended from sharks
 >  The Skark, bigfoot/wookie looking docile critters
 >  The Cante'la, upright walking versions of trilobites
 >  The Anarhooksat, telekinetic squidlike beasts that must carry water with them
 >       in their ships
 >  The Roorpa, pteranodon-like gliders
 >  The Xrxquim, isolationist humanoids with greatly enlarged craniums
 >  The Hurrparansilar, elaphantine creatures, and
 >  The Banarflista, ten-legged mollusks with weapon legs, eating legs, and
 >       walking legs
 >
 >  There are many other non-starfaring intelligent races, including ours. I have
 > maps of many systems (hand-drawn duplicates of hard copy), The locations of th
 >e races, the map of the Darvosian system, and of Darvos itself.
 >   More: all humans DID evolve from the same ancestral race. None are of extra-
 >terrestrial origin.  The Kelts, not the Aryans, are the most-contacted people.
 >(I don't know why). The aliens were most certainly not involved with the constr
 >uction of the pyramids or other ancient artifacts. We didn't need help.

 Hmmm, interesting, a few centuries ago this guy would have either been 
 heralded as a philosopher, a heretic or Jesus Christ. Perhaps this says
 something about 1) How easy it is to convince ignorant people into believing
 a load of utter rot about unprovable phenomena i.e The Bible, by the use of
 well researched and well thought out, drug induced fantasy, 2) That many
 philosophers really are fucked in the head, but just had another couple of
 million people who weren't so fucked make logic out of their insane 
 predilections.

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	      ** Mark **           --         University of ????????, Sydney
       mddeitch@socs.uts.edu.au    --          Bachelor of Applied Science,
         There can be only one     --               Computing Sciences,
             ** Deitch **          --                  Undergraduate