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UN appoints "Leader"
« on: September 27, 2010, 12:17:59 PM »
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8025832/UN-to-appoint-space-ambassador-to-greet-alien-visitors.html

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Aliens who landed on earth and asked: “Take me to your leader” would be directed to Mrs Othman.


Since we all know that the UN has the right/power/duty/chutzpah to decide how to run the world, I refuse to become insenced over the appointment of a designated point of contact.

However, I reserve the right to be insenced over the fact that so many other more highly qualified candidates were passed over.  (I am considering that they must have been considered just so I do not become even more insenced.)

My personal request for a vote recount has already been submitted to the UN.  Those of you who also feel you or your champion of choice were unfairly passed by are encouraged to submit your appeals forthwith, less an alien arrive and mistakenly gets directed to Mrs. Othman.

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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 12:19:37 PM »
Chuck Norris FTW
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 12:24:21 PM »
If Chuck Norris were a diplomat, his name would be John Bolton.
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 01:06:07 PM »
I am envisioning the meeting int "Mars Attack".  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsXnK0ouTL8&NR=1
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 01:16:50 PM »
In the great APS tradition of thread-drift, I submit the following:

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Under the Outer Space Treaty on 1967, which Unoosa oversees, UN members agreed to protect Earth against contamination by alien species by “sterilising” them.

The UN has a policy to sterilize alien species?

From 1967?

That's creepy.  It supports the notion that Area 51, Roswell, Groom Lake and similar facilities might have actually encountered aliens.  If the UN security council bothered to actually take up this issue....

Wow.
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 02:29:12 PM »
I really hope you're kidding, man. =|
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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2010, 02:45:39 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2010, 03:05:35 PM »

I actually read the Outer Space Treaty when I was researching the legality of putting private kinetic hypervelocity weapons in space.   

It's a bunch of communist "share the wealth" BS.  You're not allowed to own property off earth, as it is "common heritage of mankind".  BUT, you're not allowed to succeed from earth either, you remain the property of the country you launched from.  Non-government peasants must have authorization and continuing supervision from their government, and all governments can claim the right to spy on you. 

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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2010, 03:11:10 PM »
Basically, you need some kind of Bond-Villain (or perhaps just anti-hero) type plan to launch all your goodies and yourself into space and then proceed to blow raspberries and fire Laz0rs at anyone that tries to get you.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2010, 03:21:51 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on September 27, 2010, 03:05:35 PM
I actually read the Outer Space Treaty when I was researching the legality of putting private kinetic hypervelocity weapons in space.   

Besides the nominal craptatstic socialist bent of the U.N., that may well be the reasoning behind the Outer Space Treaty. Once anyone has the high ground, all they need to do is "drop rocks", or just give them gentle nudges, and they'll impact with  a greater force than anything in the world's nuclear arsenal.

I'm thinking someone read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", when it was drafted.
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2010, 03:49:52 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on September 27, 2010, 03:05:35 PM
I actually read the Outer Space Treaty when I was researching the legality of putting private kinetic hypervelocity weapons in space.   

It's a bunch of communist "share the wealth" BS.  You're not allowed to own property off earth, as it is "common heritage of mankind".  BUT, you're not allowed to succeed from earth either, you remain the property of the country you launched from.  Non-government peasants must have authorization and continuing supervision from their government, and all governments can claim the right to spy on you. 


Yes, but they have to come get you to punish you.  And if you truly secede, then you really aren't part of the treaty, especially if you claim some planetary object as your sovereign ground. 
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2010, 04:05:09 PM »
I vote for either Putin or fistful...depending on if the aliens want to invade us or just probe us....
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #12 on: September 27, 2010, 04:18:20 PM »
I just don't like the idea that somehow my tax dollars are in part going to the UN and paying this nut ball's salary.
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« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2010, 04:30:43 PM »
I vote for sending the UN into space to be probed.......
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« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2010, 05:46:02 PM »
And up there somewhere right now, an alien read this story and is laughing his little gray butt off.
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« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2010, 06:00:43 PM »
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Aliens who landed on earth and asked: “Take me to your leader” would be directed to Mrs Othman.

Will she be wearing a red shirt?
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2010, 09:42:09 PM »
Quote from: Angel Eyes on September 27, 2010, 08:24:09 PM
Okay, why not . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCebRe46ThU


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« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2010, 10:18:22 PM »
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« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2010, 11:30:10 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on September 27, 2010, 03:21:51 PM
Besides the nominal craptatstic socialist bent of the U.N., that may well be the reasoning behind the Outer Space Treaty. Once anyone has the high ground, all they need to do is "drop rocks", or just give them gentle nudges, and they'll impact with  a greater force than anything in the world's nuclear arsenal.

I'm thinking someone read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", when it was drafted.

I'm failing to see the bad part of your argument..?

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« Reply #20 on: September 27, 2010, 11:51:33 PM »
Quote from: RevDisk on September 27, 2010, 11:30:10 PM
I'm failing to see the bad part of your argument..?



Tsunamis, dust, and climate change for the poor Earth bound countries that have not pissed off the newly independent colonists I guess.  =D
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« Reply #21 on: September 27, 2010, 11:56:38 PM »
Quote from: AJ Dual on September 27, 2010, 11:51:33 PM
Tsunamis, dust, and climate change for the poor Earth bound countries that have not pissed off the newly independent colonists I guess.  =D

...

Still waiting for the bad part?  Maybe the impact not being recorded in HD?
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #22 on: September 28, 2010, 03:48:34 AM »
Guys.

Am I the only one who misses the suicidal stupidity here?

Consider the aliens.

They've arrive to Earth: so they have fairly advanced technology.

If you have advanced enough technology to make interstellar distances, then they would have sterilized themselves had they wanted to be sterilized.

So you have aliens. Who are more technologically advanced than you. Who don't want to be 'fixed'.

Somehow I suspect attempting to 'fix' aliens would piss them off.

You do the maths.
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #23 on: September 28, 2010, 03:54:39 AM »
I took "sterilize" to mean remove all possible pathogens from the aliens, or secure the aliens in a sterile environment so they don't contaminate earth.
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Re: UN appoints "Leader"
« Reply #24 on: September 28, 2010, 06:02:21 AM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on September 28, 2010, 03:48:34 AM


Somehow I suspect attempting to 'fix' aliens would piss them off.

You do the maths.

Agreed...to paraphrase another star traveller, "If someone tries to sterilize you, you sterilize them right back."......
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