<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:33 PM, John Grigg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>John, I suppose when the aliens land their ships at the Seti headquarters</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> and pose for photographs with the scientists there, you will finally be happy. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes that would make me happy, and I in no way think that the above is an unreasonable requirement for taking such a story seriously. In fact, if ET exists I'll be damned if I understand why his existence isn't far far far more obvious than that!</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Yes, I admit that despite all this first class testimony,</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In general there is no evidence in all the world more unreliable than eyewitness testimony. If I meet a ET the first question I'd ask him is why the hell you didn't engineer the universe; if those eyewitness can tell me what ET's answer was and the explanation actually made sense then my skepticism would be reduced.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">I wish there was rock solid physical evidence.</blockquote><br></div><div>Rock Solid? You don't even have wet cardboard box solid physical evidence.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>[after a 1950's B movie scenario] so decades later, when retired Air Force Colonal John K Clark<br>talks about his experience (encountering an "IFO" of alien origins) at the National Press Club, many people roll their eyes and mock him, because he has no physical evidence...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've never had a mystical experience, but if I did I'd have the courtesy to keep my mouth shut about it if the evidence for its validity was available only to myself. Even if I had discovered a new fact about the nature of reality there would be no way to communicate the news to others. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>