[meteorite-list] Thought_this_was_hilarious

[Impactika at aol.com]

Thanks Stanley.
 
We need a good laugh to keep warm here.
It is 16 degrees today (that's -9 Celsius)  And the high of the day was 18!!
Good thing I didn't have much snow to shovel.

Anne M. Black
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In a message dated 12/3/2009 12:58:45 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
stanleygregr at hotmail.com writes:
For those in Denver
Greg S.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/12/03/2009-12-03_now_thats_rea
lly_out_there_denver_voters_to_decide_on_possible_extraterrestrial_.html


Folks in the Mile High City think it's high time they rustled up a welcome 
party for ET, whenever the cute little varmint finally touches down.

Maybe it's something in the rarefied air or the famed Rocky Mountain water, 
but activist Jeff Peckman managed to gather the nearly 4,000 valid 
signatures to have Denver voters consider his plan for an Extraterrestrial Affairs 
Commission, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The new city panel would promote "harmonious, peaceful, mutually respectful 
and beneficial coexistence" between earthlings and extraterrestrials, in 
part by developing protocols for "diplomatic contact."

Its seven members would include an expert in taking testimony from people 
who've survived "direct personal close encounters" with aliens, the paper 
reported.

And in what has to be good news for space cadets beyond the city limits, 
the initiative says, "Members who are not Denver residents may participate 
from anywhere in the universe," the L.A. Times said.

Closer to home, Brown could see the dark side of Denver having a space 
alien agency. "If someone was looking to locate a business here, they'd think, 
'What kind of city is this?' " he told the L.A. Times yesterday.

Brown also wondered whether Colorado should float such an oddball plan so 
soon after the "Balloon Boy" hoax that was hatched in Fort Collins.

"It's like saying you're going to have a ballot initiative about the 
existence of Bigfoot," Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, told the 
L.A. Times.

But Peckman, 55, is plucky. He was bummed that President Obama hadn't 
revealed what the government knows about extraterrestrial beings, so he dreamed 
up the donation-funded commission to act as both an investigative body and an 
information clearinghouse -- a panel that would also display Denver's 
ability to "think big," the paper reported.

The self-described entrepreneur admitted his own experience with aliens is 
limited. He has spotted a UFO just once -- the day Michael Jackson died.

Peckman was standing downtown, chatting on a cell phone, when a green ball 
of light flashed by. "It didn't fizzle out like a meteorite. I just stood 
there awe-struck," he said. "The next morning, I read someone had seen a green 
ball of light over Neverland," the L.A. Times reported.

Whether Peckman or his city can make friends in other galaxies is up in the 
air, but some UFO groups wish his campaign would flame out.

The commission would duplicate existing programs and hobble attempts for ET 
hunters to be taken seriously, Mark Easter, a spokesman for MUFON, in Fort 
Collins, told the L.A. Times.

"God, this is really desperate to put something on the ballot," said Julie 
Shuster, executive director of the International UFO Museum and Research 
Center in Roswell, N.M.