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2. Oh, of course. Star Trek and Star Wars are huge entertainment empires.

Reply to Tobin S. (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:38 PM

Feb 2015

Lots of aliens, in both those sets of movies/TV shows.

UFO's are the "fairy stories" of the Cold War.

What would a real "first contact" be like, between aliens and people of Earth?

My best bet would be we'd pick up an alien signal.

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Isn't it odd? [View all] Archae Feb 2015 OP

It's very seductive to think that extra-terrestrials are real and they are visting us. Tobin S. Feb 2015 #1

Oh, of course. Star Trek and Star Wars are huge entertainment empires. Archae Feb 2015 #2

Think it's all part of the "I want to be special" desire... uriel1972 Feb 2015 #3

XKCD did a comic about that a while ago: trotsky Feb 2015 #4