1st October 2003, 12:52 PM
"We come in peace"? Ya know, that sort of first contact phrase just has "shoot me" written all over it... Either it means you are unarmed or you are a pack of liars. Either way it gives us a pretty good reason to kill you.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)