OT: A question about the Human Ability to Cope

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
During the Napoleonic era, the french army was one of the best in the world.

AHEM the French army yes..... but just look at the amount of foreign recruits..... and what nationality was its leader?

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If SETI were to receive a signal, the world governments (i.e. the US government which thinks is the world government) would immediately shut down the program and start arming for war.

If an alien landed in Hyde Park, there'd be a crowd of media people around it within hours. It would probably get so freaked out (just think how much a TV camera looks like a rocket launcher or an energy weapon if you don't know what it is, and then there are the helicopters.....) it would either get back in its spaceship and take off again, returning some days later with a battle fleet, or it would attack the crowd, get fired on by the military, take off in its space ship and return some time later with a battle fleet. Either way, we lose.

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In an entirely unrelated matter, I've just noticed SETI hasn't sent me a new data package for at least three days.....