[LIConFem]

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.”

Yeah, I remember that movie. Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal gave excellent performances.

[daniel1212]

eah, I remember that movie. Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal gave excellent performances.

Which is what the former defense seems to have in mind, for about the only shooting at UFOs has been by cameras, and their revealing themselves via blurry photos hardly corresponds to a spacecraft landing in Washington.

And while the original "The day the earth stood still" (a pacifist movie) was exceptional, yet to be critical, one of its absurdities was that of the alien (who later attests that his org. well knows of the militant nature of mankind) the naively going to a soldier pointing a rifle at him, and offering a device which makes a sudden seemingly dangerous move, resulting in the predicable reaction of the soldier shooting him. Then Gork melts the military armaments one by one before any get off a shot. But that is typical of film.