Nope, haven't read the book. I really ought to pick it up. Go-Go-Gadget Amazon.com!

I've heard a few theories, like since we developed atmoic weapons shortly after radio, then a civilization capable of sending radio transmissions might shortly thereafter exterminate themselves. Who knows? I hope they're out there, but I doubt they're going to come knocking...

Yep no smoking gun yet but is that because there isn't one or is it being hidden? For various reasons either by our governments (you know protecting us from ourselves). The aliens themselves (if we're willing to nuke, mame and kill our own kind what would we do to them?).

How would the world react? There's theories abound that things like Roswell, UFO sighting and even things like TV shows and movies are being put out to the public to sort of smoothly transition us into acceptance. What, 50% - 60% of people believe in ET's? What was it 100 years ago? Fewer people in 1905 probably believed we'd make it to the moon.

And then there is the technology. If aliens made it here, the first thing we'd be trying to figure out is how'd they do it and can we have it. Current science says it's highly unlikely (too great a distances, too much energy required). But what if there is something we don't know about or haven't discovered yet like gravity or anti-gravity propulsion. Actually it's in the works (www.janes.com/aerospace/c...9_1_n.shtml) or at least being though about.

And stuff about black programs, well, I used to work for one of those defense contractor company's. Freaky weird crazy stuff no joke. There was a section of the building with a 1ft. thick locked steel door, various security measures and 2, yes, 2 armed MP's standing guard at the door. What was in the room. Black ops stuff. I had one experience with the Black ops crew where I was asked to procure a part for them. I was given blueprints and volumes of detail. No one made the part and half the company's approached were like WTF is that? Supposedly it was a reverse engineered part. Reverse engineered part from what is the question? One guy I talked with who was heavily involved with Black ops for a while would often comment that mostly they were reverse engineering stuff. Parts given to them and explained what they were supposed to do yet the engineers had no idea what it was or how it worked and would oddly comment that the technology seemed "out of this world".

Theres supposedly tons of info out there on research Einstein and a bunch of other big brains were working on crazy technology. There's stories like the Philladelphia experiment which supposedly had to do with interdimensional travel supposedly worked from alien technology.

Anyway, now I'm probably getting to freaky x-filesish but...