related story:
Gestures Can Mislead Children
By Robin Nixon, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 12 May 2010 09:22 am ET
http://www.livescience.com/culture/gesture-truth-100512.html
I guess these people have to find something to do to justify their existence, and try to generate more money to pursue their “fantasies.”
More power to them, if they can find people stupid enough to “fund” the kind of research they are doing, whether directly or through government agencies or other foundations.
There’s an old science fiction story called “With friends like these”. It’s a story of the civilized races of the universe freeing earth from a 400,000 year isolation because they need our help fighting the current bad guys.
My favorite line from the whole book is when one alien says to another alien “Of all the races in the galaxy the Terran human is the only one known to express pleasure by baring it’s fangs”