E.T.I. (ExtraTerrestrial Idiocy)
Posted on | May 31, 2008 at 7:01 am | 3 Comments
Colorado is in the spotlight again for something weird. I’m sure you’ve all heard by now of this dude Jeff Peckman, who is sponsoring a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver. He says he’s got a video showing an alien which helps to prove there’s extraterrestrial life out there. He’s not releasing the video to the public, but he has screened it for journalists. Here’s a live blogging account of the screening which took place yesterday in Denver. I love how he and his film expert claim that it would take Hollywood special effects experts like $50K to produce a video like this (money which the purported video shooter didn’t have), and yet a debunker group in Denver was able to recreate the film for $90 in a couple of hours.
I guess Denver has its share of wackos just like any other big city, but there’s something about the altitude or whatever that makes them especially serious out here. It’s not like he’s totally crazy: I don’t really believe in UFOs full of aliens buzzing around the countryside abducting people and peeping through our window, but I think the chance of extraterrestrial life out there somewhere is pretty great. I don’t think they’ll make it to Earth though, and I don’t think the city needs a commission to deal with the potential invasion. That should be a federal matter.
This of course comes at a time when Denver is preparing to take national center stage due to the Democratic National Convention in August. (Can’t wait for those traffic disruptions around the office!) I’m not surprised the crazies are coming out of their closets seeking their time in the spotlight. And boy, is this guy getting his 15 minutes. The media loves him. I’m sure the whole thing will die down pretty quickly and be forgotten by the end of summer, if not sooner. Although, I don’t know… that Steve Horner guy who keeps enacting the Ladies Night Lawsuits still pops up from time to time in the news.
As for the aliens… I guess I’ll keep a glass of water next to my bed whenever I’m sleeping, just in case.
Latre.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “phobia of formal occasions”.
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3 Responses to “E.T.I. (ExtraTerrestrial Idiocy)”
May 31st, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
Nah, the warmer states – Texas, Florida etc – seem to have a lot more serious crazies. A substitute teacher in Florida recently got fired for being a wizard, after demonstrating a simple card trick in class. Think for a moment about just how many crazy people have to be in the same geographic and bureaucratic area for this sort of thing to go through, AND stick…
May 31st, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
That said, anyone who’d put Boulder and Colorado Springs less than 100 miles apart has got to be bonkers.
June 1st, 2008 @ 4:40 pm
I have to agree with InfK, Florida is the home of news stories about bizarre behavior.
As for myself, I’m an alien agnostic. I’m sure there is life elsewhere in the universe, and it is likely that there are things we don’t know that could make it scientifically possible for them to travel here. As to whether they do, I neither believe nor disbelieve. I think Douglas Adams surmised that such sightings were kids from other planets joy-riding, picking out someone that no one would ever believe and landing their spaceship in front of them.