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King of the Americas said:
With global TV still in its infancy, not enough had tuned in, yet.
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Are the aliens going to check the Nielsen ratings before they decide whether or not it's worth the effort?

Besides, back in the infancy of global TV, those who could watch the moon landing at all saw it live, in real time, more or less simultaneously. Nowadays it's likely a good part of the world won't see any Olympic event until hours after it's over.
 
King of the Americas said:
With global TV still in its infancy, not enough had tuned in, yet.
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Unlike in medieval times (and many other previous ages) when people painted gods descending because apparently, it happened all the time?


God 1. Not enough people watching this
God 2. Agreed, I'm outta here until they invent television
God 1. I'm with you mate
 
Clearly, the alien gods would have returned during the final episode of M*A*S*H if they had any interest.
 
I still think it would be better happening during the Royal Wedding. At least that wouldn't upset the Olympics events schedule :mad:

More space for the mothership in the The Mall*, too.

*that's the boulevard in London, not a shopping arcade
 
King of the Americas said:
I have this pet theory that if and when 'the world' is tuned in, they will descend.
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So if everybody needs to be watching TV, what's the point of the stadium full of people standing around staring at the sky with their mouths open?

King of the Americas said:
With global TV still in its infancy, not enough had tuned in, yet.
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TV - even "global TV" - was hardly "in its infancy" in 1969.
An estimated 500 million people worldwide watched [the moon landing], the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing

I think half a billion people is a significant number, don't you? Or do you have some arbitrary criterion for how many is enough?

And wouldn't it have made a great picture to have the UFO pilots waiting on the moon to welcome us when we arrived? Their publicists were really lying down on the job on that one.
 
Elizabeth I said:
And wouldn't it have made a great picture to have the UFO pilots waiting on the moon to welcome us when we arrived? Their publicists were really lying down on the job on that one.
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The only problem with this of course is that we didn't really go to the Moon.

:duck:
 
EHocking said:
So..... In order to get them to descend, the "world needs to be tuned in" ..... and ...... once they START to descend, you believe that "world will be tuned in"....
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Close...

I think once most of the world tuned in, they would descend, causing EVERY other station not broadcasting it, to begin doing so.

I can't think of anything else being more important at that moment...
 
carlitos said:
When you put words in 'quotes' it helps if you are quoting someone.
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Really...?

'I' use "quotes" to quote someone, and 'these' to draw attention to words. Like if I were to say 'you' are a douche bag.

I'd use "quotes", if I wrote: I was on a message board the other day, and this guy repeated refused to take part in the intended discussion, so eventually I said, "Hey carlitos, 'you' are a douche bag."

That said 'you' aren't a douche bag. I don't know you from Adam, and I'm sure you are a perfectly pleasant person when you aren't ignoring OP's.
 
Cuddles said:
4 billion, on the other hand, was.
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Out of 6.7 billion, "4" would indeed be most...

Although, the link you provided gives a 'range' from 1 billion, all the way up to 4.

That said, I think the Olympic Opening Ceremonies IS the perfect place to try to garner the world's attention. No other event even comes close to this kind of attention draw...
 
The notion of an alien race so vain that they'll only reveal themselves when they feel that sufficient attention is being paid to them... is, in a word, sad.

Intersteller, extraterrestrial attention whores.

Maybe if we promise them their own reality show... they could participate in fetish porn with the Octomom. Just imagine the ratings.

Man that's a depressing thought... an alien race of spoiled brats who refuse to come out and perform at the dance recital until the crowd is clapping for them loud enough.
 
King of the Americas said:
Out of 6.7 billion, "4" would indeed be most...

Although, the link you provided gives a 'range' from 1 billion, all the way up to 4.

That said, I think the Olympic Opening Ceremonies IS the perfect place to try to garner the world's attention. No other event even comes close to this kind of attention draw...
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Aliens landing, anytime, anywhere, in front of TV cameras, would garner more attention than the Olympics. Nothing could be easier than for aliens to make themselves known to the world. The reason we only have blurry, nebulous pics and no, say, live interviews is that unfortunately there are no aliens.
 
Elizabeth I said:
I think half a billion people is a significant number, don't you? Or do you have some arbitrary criterion for how many is enough?
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If it didn't happen it's because you didn't pray hard enough... uh... you didn't believe your wish would come true... um... oh yeah, because there weren't enough people watching.

ETA...

Psiload said:
The notion of an alien race so vain that they'll only reveal themselves when they feel that sufficient attention is being paid to them... is, in a word, sad.

Intersteller, extraterrestrial attention whores.
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Yes, much like gods. Nope, there weren't enough people lined up on the beach wishing the hurricane would demolish the next town down the coast, so it hit us anyway, dammit.
 
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Psiload said:
The notion of an alien race so vain that they'll only reveal themselves when they feel that sufficient attention is being paid to them... is, in a word, sad.

Intersteller, extraterrestrial attention whores.

Maybe if we promise them their own reality show... they could participate in fetish porn with the Octomom. Just imagine the ratings.

Man that's a depressing thought... an alien race of spoiled brats who refuse to come out and perform at the dance recital until the crowd is clapping for them loud enough.
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First, please stop using the word "alien" or "interstellar", in or with references to my threads. I find it is an undo demand that skeptics place on U.F.O.'s, by moving them into the metaphysical. If we allow for them to have 'always' been up there, then they need be only slightly more capable than us. Maybe they've only mastered inter-orbital flight...

My personal theory on the 'media whore' thing, is that IF most of the world was looking at a single place, AND 'they' descended, then no one would be able to deny it happened...

The world would be forced to accept a reality, only a few have direct knowledge of.
 
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King of the Americas said:
First, please stop using the word "alien" or "interstellar", in or with references to my threads. I find it is an undo demand that skeptics place on U.F.O.'s, by moving them into the metaphysical. If we allow for them to have 'always' been up there, then they need be only slightly more capable than us. Maybe they've only mastered inter-orbital flight...

My personal theory on the 'media whore' thing, is that IF most of the world was looking at a single place, AND 'they' descended, then no one would be able to deny it happened...

The world would be forced to accept a reality, only a few have direct knowledge of.
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Here... does this make it easier for you to deal with?

The notion of Gods so vain that they'll only reveal themselves when they feel that sufficient attention is being paid to them... is, in a word, sad.

Godly attention whores.

Maybe if we promise them their own reality show... they could participate in fetish porn with the Octomom. Just imagine the ratings.

Man that's a depressing thought... spoiled brats Gods who refuse to come out and perform at the dance recital until the crowd is clapping for them loud enough.
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I don't care what you call them or where you think they call home... my sentiment still stands. If what you're attributing to them is true, then "The Gods" are a pathetic pack of vainglorious attention whores.
 
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Your idea of another advanced race that has always been around is even more far fetched than the usual aliens from another star system. It stretches the bounds of credulity to think that they could have remained hidden. At least we have good reason to think that life could have arisen on other systems, even if we haven seen any yet.
 
King of the Americas said:
Really...?

'I' use "quotes" to quote someone, and 'these' to draw attention to words. Like if I were to say 'you' are a douche bag.

I'd use "quotes", if I wrote: I was on a message board the other day, and this guy repeated refused to take part in the intended discussion, so eventually I said, "Hey carlitos, 'you' are a douche bag."

That said 'you' aren't a douche bag. I don't know you from Adam, and I'm sure you are a perfectly pleasant person when you aren't ignoring OP's.
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I probably overuse them, but you might want to give italics a try. 100 years ago when I took writing for business or whatever, they recommended italics for words that you want to "draw attention to."

Rules for single quotation marks are the same as double, but you can use both if you have nested quotes.
 
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