system: You are Jack Sargeant, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Ufo message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "More on DNA".

They wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 13:11:31 -0400
> From: Stanton Friedman <fsphys@brunnet.net>
> To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:50:05 -0500
> > To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> > From: Bob Shell <bob@bobshell.com>
> > Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
> > >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
> > >From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com>
> > >Subject: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
> > >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:55:18 -0800
> > >Now, while chemistry dictates which sequences code for which
> > >amino acids, thus making it likely that a DNA using cell from
> > >elsewhere would also use those same sequences to code for those
> > >amino acids (assuming those amino acids were used in their
> > >proteins, which is not a given either), the other sequences,
> > >especially the promoter and terminator sequences, are choices
> > >made by evolution from a fairly wide set of possibilities.
> > I simply do not understand why so many cling to the idea that
> > what we are attempting to understand must be ET in origin.  I
> > think the probabilities are much higher that the phenomenon,
> > whatever it may prove to be, is completely earthly in origin.
> > Bob
> Bob:
> The evidence is overwhelming that we are dealing with
> manufactured vehicles whose technology is well beyond ours
> especially for the 1940s.
> We could be their colonies. We could have a common origin. The
> earth is not an old planet. There are stars 5 billion years older
> than the Sun.
> We know little about our past beyond a million years. Where is
> the problem? Also, we are just beginning the age of genetic
> manipulation, doing routinely things thought impossible 40 years
> ago... No problem with ET except for those unwilling to stretch
> their understanding.
> Stan Friedman

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assistant: for <ufo1@juno.com>; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 04:54:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tom Burnett" <burnettc@gte.net>
To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: 'The Threat' - Sandow on Jacobs' new book
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 14:49:51 -1000
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Aloha Stan....
While I hesitate to disagree with you (especially since I just
ordered your new book today and I don't want to risk not getting
an autographed copy), we cannot be an ET colony unless everything
living on earth was planted here.  All living terrestrial
entities are related through DNA, or at least the chemistry that
evokes DNA/RNA responses, and those responses evolved within very
specific terrestrial conditions. Even supposing that some ETs
might have modified the DNA of a group of chimpanzees by 2 or 3
percent in order to provide an evolutionary 'jump start', this
seems an unnecessary complication, and the difficulties are
absolutely staggering.
'They' may well be here, and the following possibilities come to
mind: As recreation (like visiting the San Diego wild animal
park); as an educational experience; as part of a training
program, or as colonists. Or the earth might be a navigional
point between other destinations.  Whatever they might or might
not be doing we do not seem to have a choice. According to the
stories, we are certainly not being treated as long lost
relatives, so the benign 'space brother' theory does not seem to
work. We like to believe that the government is in collusion with
them, but the government might have nothing but a crashed ship
and a bunch of questions. If I ran the government, I wouldn't
want that to get out until I figured out what to do about it. And
they might never figure it out.
Tom Burnett