Someone's Got a Case of the Mondays

Today was a hard day at work. I spent most of my time updating my blog. If you notice in the side bar new links and what-nots. I had a good time doing it.

These are the kinds of things I deal with on a weekly basis. Lucky me, I guess it could be worse.... It's part of my job to respond to all email questions that pass through our public information office. We got one today that I thought was ... well, a little nuts. You be the judge:

"The United Nations
The Vatican
Australian Academy of Science
American Astronomical Society
Canadian Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society
SETI

Dear Sir or Madam:

We, super-roberts from Edene, a planet about 42 light-years away from you, are leaving the lovely country of yours for other language speaking counties, after two years of extensive study and exploration. We apologize sincerely for not informing you earlier for the sole reason that we are forbidden to contact you directly or to disturb your natural evolution or social development of this planet.

We brought the warmest greetings from the people of Edene to you. And as part of our mission, we will bring back certain rocks, fossils, books, CDs, DVDs, or other stuff that are needed for our research.

Edene is a planet with highly modernized civilization. The residents on Edene are highly religious, intelligent, and peaceful people. They warship the same God, the Creator and the Savior of the whole universe, as most of you do on Earth, although the description and interpretation of the Bible are a little different from yours. For example, evolution plays a important role after the preliminary work was done by God.

Your desire to explore the unknown of the universe and to communicate with the outer space intelligence has been highly appreciated by the outer space society. Your request, however, is denied because of the hatred and the brutal wars among your different nations. We do not believe that nations could be really friendly to outer space aliens when they are killing their neighbors and brothers without any mercy. Early experience tells us that the direct contact with any nation of yours could endanger the welfare of the Earth at present, or the peace of the outer space in the future.

Different from other visits earlier, this visit of ours has been a very pleasant, exciting, and rewarding one, thanks to our super technology. Hope we did not bring any inconvenience for you and hope this letter could inspire a whole generation on Earth to explore the great universe and then join the great space family in the future. We look forward to visiting you soon in the future.


Sincerely yours
Friends "