White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions 232
An anonymous reader writes "The White House has responded to two more We the People petitions. These new inquiries ask the government to acknowledge formally that aliens have visited Earth. The response from Phil Larson of the White House Office of Science and Technology is: 'The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye.'" I'm glad that's cleared up. Now our government can get back to important work like developing caffeinated jerky.
Re:yeah... (Score:5, Insightful)
Area 51 Syndrome (Score:4, Insightful)
According to polls (Score:5, Insightful)
14% of Americans think they've seen a UFO. An additional 20% haven't seen one, but believe they exist.
Somewhere around 10% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing.
This says something about the United States, although I'm not sure exactly what.
Re:According to polls (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Area 51 Syndrome (Score:4, Insightful)
Even if there is no alien in area 51 they still have new technology, missile and stuffs that you don't have to see.
If I don't want you to come at my house to see inside It must be because I have a trapped alien in it.
Re:According to polls (Score:5, Insightful)
90% believe in a god, 55% believe they are protected by guardian angels, 54% believe in psychic abilities, 41% believe in demonic/devil possession.
People believe in a lot of really dumb things.
You want proof there are no ETs on earth? (Score:5, Insightful)
You want proof there are no ETs on earth?
Look at the defense budget.
Now look at NASAs budget.
NASA's budget is tiny in comparison. Clearly the US sees other countries as much bigger threat than the anal-probers from outta space. Either that or they feel that a little humiliation for the drunk rednecks that spot them is acceptable.
If we had discovered aliens do you really think we'd be slashing science spending and space exploration costs?
Do you really think the US would be the only country to know about them and that all 200+ nations on earth are collaborating together to keep us in the dark.
It is ludicrous. The one way you know that aliens have been found and secretly being kept away from the public is when the government starts putting higher priority on space funding and NASA's budget starts rocketing upwards instead of getting cut further and further each year.
Watching too much TV (Score:4, Insightful)
To sum up TFA:
1. Aliens are almost certainly real. Those who refuse to believe in the likely existence of extraterrestrial life either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
2. UFOs are absolutely real. There are lots of instances where people legitimately see objects in the sky that they cannot identify/classify.
3. UFOs are absolutely not aliens. Those who believe that aliens have visited earth either refuse to acknowledge or cannot comprehend the vastness of space and (especially) the vastness of time.
Re:yeah... (Score:5, Insightful)
More logically the phrase "no evidence" versus the more commonly expected "no knowledge". So perhaps no recovered alien vessels and no captured aliens versus no knowledge of unknown space vessels, presumably not operated by humans.
Of course one need only look at the reply for marijuana versus say this story http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2008/jul/23/significance_us_govt_cannabinoid [stopthedrugwar.org] which leads you to http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html [patentstorm.us]. So the US Department of Health has a patent on what the US Government in turn denies is of any value.
Then of course who could forget wikileaks and embassy cables, basically the US government lying all over the place, again and again and again.
Re:As the world collapses around us... (Score:5, Insightful)
Here, go vote on some more important petitions:
Meta-petition [whitehouse.gov]
99declaration.org [whitehouse.gov]
Snarky petition [whitehouse.gov]
E-Parasite [whitehouse.gov]
Marijuana petition Part II. [whitehouse.gov]
Reverse marijuana petition [whitehouse.gov]
YAMP [whitehouse.gov]
I like this one. Bet it doesn't last long. [whitehouse.gov]
Re:Air Force Caffeine Department (Score:3, Insightful)
People start getting nuts when they use any stimulant inplace of rest.