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Originally posted by Throbber
I would claim that God had sent his angels down to earth, or demons respectively.
Basically i'd try to make it as religiously symbolic as possible*, to get people to go 'ohhh' and 'ahhh', in that order - try to awe people into a contemplative mindframe about what this could mean for the human race, as opposed to everyone reacting at once and blowing each other up.
As for a time-frame, it is not a matter of when, but how.
*This would also help to stop the religious masses turning on each other.
[edit on 29-10-2007 by Throbber]
Originally posted by NuclearPaul
I would do it just before I attacked Iran. Imagine the distraction...
Originally posted by andre18“we come in piece.”
Originally posted by aaron1994
As soon as possible. Because we reserve the right to know the truth. Remmemmber, for liberty and juctice for all?
Originally posted by Gazrok
Me, I'd start with the announcement of life microbes found in an asteroid.
Then, a few months later, I'd announce water outside the earth.
Q: What's the presumptive volume of it then, and how did you discern that?
A: As I mentioned, what we can tell from looking at the radar return is roughly the area that is covered by this. Assuming it reflects ice like ice on Mercury -- making that assumption. That's been well looked at. Then in order to see this back scatter effect, this roadside reflector effect; it's estimated that we have to see some number of wavelengths of our radar into the ice. In reviewing the paper, several of the reviewers posited we probably need to see somewhere between 50 and 100 wavelengths. So our wavelength is about six inches. So at the thickest case, it's roughly 50 feet.
Q: That translates to what in volume?
A: We were very conservative in the press release, but if you take basically 100 square kilometers by roughly 50 feet, you get a volume of something like a quarter of a cubic mile, I think it's on that order. It's a considerable amount, but it's not a huge glacier or anything like that.
Q: Can you compare that with something you know?
A: It's a lake. A small lake.
This would be followed in a few more months with the discovery of live, but primitive organisms on Mars or Europa.