They actually believe finding UFOs is LESS plausible than stabilizing Afghanistan?

That's just what THEY want, you FOOLS!

Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Now they strike.

They'll change their tune when their cows start having their skin turned inside out.

That shifting of .00017% of the annual occupation budget to Afghanistan could really make the difference.

And now there are some severely bummed people who lost their jobs answering phones and taking calls from freaked out, paranoid, terrified people who were in the presence of a streetlight.

I have a 6' delta kite and a mile or so of string. Slap a few glow-sticks and/or colored lights, fly it after dark, and read newspaper reports the next day.

For a short time I belonged to a UFO investigation group and we used to go hang out at this place called "Lucky Point". The other guys in the group called it that because they always saw these black triangles and crap in the air there. I never saw them...besides, I knew it was luckier for every dude there that wasn't looking for UFOs because the place was a parker's paradise. I quit that group, but I went back there later with a girlfriend that wanted to see some UFOs. We were in the back seat of my Olds making out all hot and heavy and I had forgotten to set the parking brake so we slowly started to roll backwards down the slope back to the main road and once we realized it, we panicked and she jumped out one door and I jumped out the other and the car kept going and picking up speed and it started to turn and it ran right into the bottom of a power pole and a transformer at the top of it blew and there were sparks and shiat. I swear to god, in the quiet out in that field in the middle of the night you could hear the sound of a dozen UFO investigators jizzing in their jeans as they saw their first unexplained lights in the sky. I miss that car. That girl went lesbian shortly after that because after me no other man was enough for her.

So the two prats they put out of work answering the phone will now be going to war?

I feel safer already.

I understand sociology and the human mind well enough to know that world peace is an impossibility, so I take what I would consider a pragmatic approach to geopolitical issues. I'm also a fiscal conservative, so I don't think a government should directly fund something like a UFO hotline (SETI, on the other hand. . .).

All that said, on an academic level, I really have a hard time agreeing that spending resources for members of the same species to blow each other up for absurdly inane reasons is a better idea.

That most people embrace the idea that war is a viable solution to anything just goes to show how petty, irrational and primitive humans are. As Bill Watterson said best, the surest sign intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.