If you thought the presidential campaign was already slightly extraterrestrial, it just became even more so.
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Hillary Clinton, alien hunter.
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I come to this conclusion after learning that leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton intends to sort out the issue of whether aliens exist once and for all.
Clinton was interviewed late last month by the editorial board of the influential (in New Hampshire) Conway Daily Sun. After answering questions on foreign policy and the economy, she was reminded of a conversation she had with the reporter in 2007 about UFOs.
The reporter also brought up how her husband -- former president Bill Clinton -- mused in April to Jimmy Kimmel that he "wouldn't be surprised" if aliens had wandered down here and checked us out.
Hillary Clinton rather agreed. Having fun with the reporter, she said. "I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure," she said.
But what will she do about it? It's all very well that politicians whet our appetites, but we need to know. We've watched far too many TV shows that assume aliens exist, and frankly it's killing us.
Thankfully, Clinton says that if she's elected she would "get to the bottom of it."
In this, she's being encouraged by John Podesta, her campaign chairman and a vast enthusiast of alien theories.
"He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out. One way or another," she told the Sun. "Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51." (Area 51 is a US Air Force facility in southern Nevada where evidence of alien life is allegedly hidden.)
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Given our strange and twisted political times, I can see that the promise of a task force to finally unearth evidence of alien visits will persuade more than a few voters.
It appeals both to our sense of adventure and our realization that politics as usual is painfully ineffective these days. This could out-[Sleezebag] even the most radical Donald [Sleezebag] proposal.
I can see a live stream as everything is examined. It will be called "The Aliens Awaken." I can see Geraldo Rivera, Maury Povich and Anderson Cooper co-hosting the spectacle.
The search for Bigfoot will seem like a piffling cartoon when compared to this. We'll be riveted for days, months even.
And when proof of alien life is finally placed in front of a camera, we will never be the same again. Neither will politics or television.
and I've got ZERO patience with Chariots of the Gods nonsense.
Maybe we're the aliens!? (Real, (completely speculative) scientific hypothesis.)
The people who built the pyramids (Egyptian and North American) understood basic geometry and engineering principles. They had at least some of the traditional "simple machines".
They also had what too many modern people appear to lack: an attention span and the ability to plan beyond the next two or four years. Considering how many decades it took to construct some of the castles and cathedrals in Europe, and how determined the ancient people were to finish the pyramids (and Hatshupsut's tomb)... just think if modern people were to apply that kind of vision and determination to more pressing things like cleaning up the environment, making sure people have all their basic needs met, and get cracking on a space program that will actually let us go somewhere.
They also had what too many modern people appear to lack: an attention span and the ability to plan beyond the next two or four years.