[extropy-chat] Depressing thought of the day

[Terry W. Colvin]

Positive answers to five questions in the 1991 survey were strong indicators of
a "UFO abductee." These were (1) an hour or more of missing time, (2) seeing
unusual lights or balls of light in a room, (3) puzzling scars on their body,
(4) seen a strange figure (a monster, an alien, a devil) in their bedroom, and
(5) had a feeling of flying through the air. Only 18 people out of 5,947 people
surveyed had all five of these experiences, a 0.3 per cent of the sample. The
margin of error in the poll was +/- 1.4 per cent. Authors Hopkins, Jacobs, and
Westrum shifted their own goalposts to four positive answers. Now 119
respondents, two per cent of the sample, when extrapolated to the general
American population, represent 1.11 and 6.29 million people at the extremes of
the margin of error, or 3.7 million possible abduction experiences. 

kevinfreels at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> Funny you should mention that. A month of missing time. I have corrected the
> problem, but I have no idea how that happened. I am working on two likely
> scenarios.
> 1.) My wife changed the clock for some odd reason
> 2.) I, along with my computer, was abducted by aliens for an entire month.
> Now I just need to see if I can remember anything from the last
> month....ouch, it hurts!
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Clemmensen" <dgc at cox.net>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Depressing thought of the day
> 
> > kevinfreels at hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > We think we can conquer aging and death, yet I still can't find a way
> > > to keep my hair from falling out.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Your hair is falling out because you are in a time warp. Your message is
> > carrying a date stamp of 10/16/2003 07:16 PM. The connection between
> > time warps and hir loss is quite obscure and has not been completely
> > characterized. Can you please do a study of this phenomenon?
> >
> > :-)


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