Not everyone is happy that Obama won.
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I am almost positive this picture is fake. After all, the aliens must have known about Tom Tancredo.
Tip o’ the tin foil beanie to Fark.
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November 5th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
On the humor side of the election, I’m amazed the appalling beardism we’ve seen. No candidates with any facial hair, again. We see no change coming from Washington. Even Bill Richardson showed up having shed his goatee on MSNBC after the winner was declared.
I’m telling you, this beardism is suppressing great tickets like Plait/Myers or Spock/Spock.
November 5th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Sadly I just feel that NASA is really going to get hit and probably hit hard.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
It’s obviously fake. A crowd of Republicans would never allow someone to strut around half-naked that way.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
@NBwaW
No, no, no. It’s obviously fake because, as everyone knows, aliens don’t have tear ducts.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Ha.
On the subject of aliens, I recently watched “Fastwalkers: They Are Here” and let’s say all the eye rolling I did put my eye muscles in good shape.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Greg – then it is the job of you and every other American to scream from the hills what you want. I think last night proved that you all have the power in numbers and no amount of corruption could have changed that. I just have the feeling that Obama’s administration will actually listen to the masses so it is up to you to exercise your freedom of speech and speak up.
I wonder who will be advising him on science and technology though…
November 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Just Phil being Phil- classy as usual.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Kevin – I just googled Fastwalkers…. it looked…er… interesting.
With respect to aliens visiting us though, I’ve always wondered something. This will probably be a stupid question for you astronomy pros, but wouldn’t the heliosphere keep us in our solar system and in return keep the nasties out? Assuming they don’t have some sort of faster than light jump thing à la Battlestar Galactica, how the heck would they make it through that sheath that travels at over a million kilometers per hour?
…don’t laugh
Its just a stupid question I’ve always wondered about but have been too ashamed to ask someone… maybe Dr. BA can clue me in. 
November 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I say it’s fake. McCain doesn’t look real.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Annette: You cannot think of those numbers in terms of some sort of headwind. Space is mostly that: Lots of – empty – space, so there’s really nothing pushing against “outsiders” with any kind of significant force (not considering ultra-light, ultra-wide solar sail structures here). You *will* need proper shielding though.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I’ am with you guys it’s clearly a fake, if the Aliens knew about Tom Tancredo then they certainly knew about Kirk(if he couldn’t shag it, he would kill it and that proves that they haven’t visited) similar philosophy in my opinion! Good luck to you all you Americans, also very good news for us all.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Annette: Kevin – I just googled Fastwalkers…. it looked…er… interesting.
Yep. My stepmother got a stack of UFO DVDs from her cousin and knowing as a teenager I ate that stuff up, she gave them to me. Nothing new. Nothing solid. I’m not surprised, but… *sigh*
November 5th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
No aliens……………yet. Just an amazingly interesting universe to discover.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Kevin, yeah its always like those ancient history documentaries on Discovery. They make you believe at the beginning that they actually found something extremely cool, only to let you down at the end with their “well if it DID happen… this is how it went” endings. I keep watching them like a Pavlovian dog thinking that maybe THIS time I’ll get the treat I’m yearning for.
I’m such a sucker.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Hey I’m not from another planet and I’m not happen that Obama won. Personally I would have preferred McCain. He was the one I voted for after all.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hey I’m not from another planet and I’m not happy that Obama won. Personally I would have preferred McCain. He was the one I voted for after all. Sorry about the error in my last comment.
November 5th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I… I have something in my optic orb. I believe it is a bit of what you earthlings call “hope”.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Well, let us just remember that questions about any candidate do not go away because of an election.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Just FYI: that picture is a reversed and badly cropped version of this infamous picture:
http://www.salem-news.com/stimg/may302008/bush-mccain-hug-72.jpg
November 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
That must be a ‘red’ Gray.. I have a copy of the WWN ‘cover’ showing a ‘blue’ Gray endorsing Obama hanging up at work (Can’t find source… grrr)
J/P=?
November 5th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
[...] In what has been an amazing and historic election, the nation has at last made its choice: Barack Obama shall indeed be the 44th President of these United [...]
November 5th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Phil,
Just out of curiosity, What would you do if you learned that the extraterrestrials really did support McCain? – : )
November 5th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Damien: That they aren’t much to go by?
November 5th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Kevin F.,
What are you asking?
November 5th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
# Damien Says: “Phil, Just out of curiosity, What would you do if you learned that the extraterrestrials really did support McCain? – : )”
I don’t think Phil has to worry about it. I’ve been informed by Zorgon of Epsilon Indi that all other civilizations in the galaxy are Liberal Democrats.*
*(Except the Fangboonie of Alpha Centauri who base their economy on the value of old broadcast transmissions of the Xavier Cugat Orchestra.)
November 5th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Oh my yes… That’s very fake.
Actually none of the local species really resemble you hunams. Most aren’t even hunamoid. And those who are aren’t neccesarily hunam-sized. (And you certainly can’t confuse ‘em with hunams.)
That thing looks like a hunam who had an unfortunate accident.
That and none of the species in the galaxy cares about you hunams, that’s why they don’t make contact. Its kind of like how you wouldn’t be to thrilled with having cartoon cavepeople living next door. We don’t really want you around with spaceships and stuff. Kind of like how you wouldn’t give one of your larvae a loaded weapon with the safety off.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Annette asked: “…wouldn’t the heliosphere keep us in our solar system and in return keep the nasties out? Assuming they don’t have some sort of faster than light jump thing à la Battlestar Galactica, how the heck would they make it through that sheath that travels at over a million kilometers per hour?”
The individual particles might be travelling that fast, but they’re so dispersed that space out there is a higher grade vacuum than anything we can create here on Earth.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Hi!
nice picture!
With kind regards!
Okuro Oikawa
November 6th, 2008 at 2:54 am
I agree with PsyberDave. I really have to question the authenticity of that photo based on how McCain looks. Did anyone else notice how funny he appears?
November 6th, 2008 at 4:08 am
The BA : “Not everyone is happy that Obama won.”
I am though!
Thankfully sanity – & planetarium-loving voters – have prevailed!
Unscientific as it may be, I’ve got a very good feeling that you folks in the States have just gone from your worst ever President to what promises to be perhaps one of your best ever ones!
BTws. Just who is that alien figure & whats it from?
November 6th, 2008 at 9:17 am
It’s a defninite fake. No way would our Reptoid Overlord Masters meet with another alien.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Man, I so miss the Weekly World News…