In the forties, there was a science fiction movie or maybe a twilight zone where Earth is visited by ufo's and these very friendly and most gracious aliens.
The aliens brought with them a manuscript of sorts, which we assume to be a code of ethics, sort of an alien bible that scientists are trying to decipher. So far they have deciphered only the title, HOW TO SERVE MAN.
Two scientist who happen to be lovers are excitedly trying to "read" the alien script and make out the contents of this strange "Book"
They each feel very differently about the idea of alien presence. She remains wary and he is delighted about this other worldly contact.
Meanwhile the aliens are loveable, ingraciating themselves among the populace, performing feats of wonder and miraculous healings and in all the news, reaching rock star status. The news that the aliens are here to serve us spreads fast and we welcome their presence and learn more and more about where they are from.
They arrange for the first of what they promise will be many " tourist" trips to their planet which sounds like an otherworldly paradise. There are so many who want to be among the first to leave earth, the trips are overflowing with anxious and brave passengers. Our benefactor planet sends "motherships" that dwarft the original ship to carry the first eager passengers. Among these is the male scientist whose life has been completely altered ...he's opted to leave his lover and their work deciphering "the book" to venture into the unknown frontier. It is a sad parting of ways but she leaves him in the cargo bay and walks away very sad but admiring him for his sense of adventure.
Meanwhile she returns to her fellow scientists still trying to decipher the book, HOW TO SERVE MAN.
They have finally cracked the writing code and can at last read a majority of the inside of the mysterious book that was so coveted by the aliens.
Once she is told what the contents of the book mean, by her colleagues, she turns very pale and choking, starts to cry. In a panic she runs frantically and drives speeding all the way back to the launching pad where she is in time to see the ships taking off, the multitudes of people lining the tremenodus windows along the sides waving excitedly to loved ones shouting goodbyes. She sees her lovers face in the window trying to make out the words she is yelling, getting drowned out by the roar of the ship...only the audience hear her plaintive cries and eventually the horror comes over his face in the window as he begins to understand what she is saying as the ship moves out of sight..... It's a cookbook!


What a scary movie! Makes me a little leary of aliens.
They shouldn't show stuff like that!

Story time!
realm of possibility
4/8/2006 11:33:54 AM

Certainly to some other groups we are still savages. A species that quickly uses up the worlds resources and burns up our own ozone layer. We slash the forests and pollute the only known water source for light years. We return nothing but corpses. We allow our babies to die, women to suffer, children to starve and our aged to rot. We allow the extermination of great masses of people while we follow corupt leaders and systems. We better hope there is something else out there. We could use a few pointers.

Soari
east of Utopia
4/8/2006 8:53:51 AM

I'm sure some species have developed evolutionarily so far beyond us, to them we might be nothing more than a delicacy of glandular fluids, a health drink, growing wild. How after all do we rationalize the slaughter of cattle ourselves? Survival of the fittest. Would that not apply universally?
This is really why humans go for the guns first. We have a guilty conscience. We know the measures we will take for self satisfaction and we think everyone else must be as morally bereft. It may not be true.

off base
earth
4/8/2006 8:27:27 AM

I believe you did. I wonder why there were so many sightings in the 50s and again in the mid 70s.

4/8/2006 8:05:51 AM

i saw two ufos north east of tecumseh nebraska on a nice sunny day in the afternoon in 1952.

richard dean mathis
tecumseh nebraska
4/8/2006 7:29:34 AM

i saw two ufos north east of tecumseh nebraska on a nice sunny day in the afternoon in 1952.

richard dean mathis
tecumseh nebraska
4/8/2006 7:20:21 AM

It's a busy day, Selina then Annie then Linda(thats there name in english) all husbands are working.....I gotta impregnate all 3 before 12:00. but the good thing is Selina is gorgeous, like supermodel.Did you know the skin of an alien woman is very very very very very beautifull?Like a baby's bum but even softer.But they told me they don't use moisturiser, it's just natural.

Sebastian(above China)in UFO

4/7/2006 5:05:46 PM

What defines humanoid?
Merriam Webster Online defines "Humanoid" as having the characteristics of humans but does not define what those characteristics are. Anyone know what they are? "Human" has opposable thumbs, uses tools etc....but humanoid?
Is it something having 2 arms, 2 legs and a head? It's a weird question but I've heard some lifeforms called humanoid that I did not think were even close.

lahera
FL
4/7/2006 12:01:31 PM

UNEQUIVOCALLY YES!

4/7/2006 7:06:03 AM

The nuts are back.

go away
here
4/7/2006 6:57:33 AM