Re:Seth Shostak From SETI: We WILL Find Aliens In Space
by sp332 on Monday July 23, 2012 @10:40AM
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On top of that, the USPS is pretty good.
Re:Seth Shostak From SETI: We WILL Find Aliens In Space
by jlhamilton on Monday July 23, 2012 @11:31AM
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The USPS is terrible.
Re:Seth Shostak From SETI: We WILL Find Aliens In Space
by luser001 on Monday July 23, 2012 @12:52PM
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Please explain. I love the USPS. It's cheap and fast. IMHO. YMMV.
People literally ship gold through the US Mail: it's that secure.
Re:Seth Shostak From SETI: We WILL Find Aliens In Space
by pavel_lishin on Monday July 23, 2012 @12:48PM
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It's regional. I've had excellent and awful service from the USPS, UPS, and Fedex.
Re:Seth Shostak From SETI: We WILL Find Aliens In Space
by jonno on Monday July 23, 2012 @12:13PM
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It's a soundbite analogy suggesting that the Government isn't generally terribly organised and covering up something as huge as aliens not only existing but already having been among us isn't likely. Considering what he does for a living Seth must get asked this question loads and this is a convenient way to get his point across without having to have a long winded discussion every time on the complexities or unlikelihood of a cover up of this magnitude.
This argument irritates me every time I hear it. Let me make an equivalent substitution:
"Do Americans really believe the same government that increasingly and permanently collects everything that they say and do while bathing them in propagada without them ever realizing it is covering up alien life?"
Government is people, and people pay a lot more attention when money or power are involved. In fact, it's such a straw man argument that always have to wonder if the purveyor actually believes the opposite.
Kinda makes me want to adjust my tin foil hat and pay more attention to the night sky.