Aliens among us

From today's Toronto Star:
A leading astrophysicist who has worked on space missions claims that he and his colleagues are in contact with extraterrestrials who are "living among us." And they don't like what they see.
Latchezar Filipov, head of the Space Research Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, is causing global ripples after researching crop circles around the world.
"We sent (the aliens) 30 questions about global problems," said Filipov, who was vague about how he actually conveyed the queries. "And now we have some answers."
The "answers" came in the form of pictograms in crop circles.
Filipov says the aliens are here, observing us, but unobservable by us for some reason.
"I feel that ... some kind of information is being taught, that they'd like to be in contact with us," Filipov said Friday in halting English from his office in Sofia.
Filipov asked the aliens about the SETI, the broad umbrella project searching for alien life, and the supposed end of the world in 2012, when the Mayan calendar expires.
He told the Star that the aliens have told him SETI doesn't work, owing to a confusion about communication through "magnetic fields."
They also said there is some truth in the 2012 predictions, having something to do with volcanoes in Mexico.
Further, more prosaic revelations include that the aliens are angry about global warming, disagree with in-vitro fertilization and don't like cosmetics. Apparently, Filipov's aliens are grumpy Republicans.
This work is only beginning, Filipov cautioned, and he is still open to the fact that he could be mistaken – "I don't yet believe that this is absolutely true information."
Filipov is no garden-variety crank. He sports an impressive CV: graduate work at Moscow State University, a variety of high-level positions studying astrophysics, work on a MIR spacecraft mission.
However, his latest preoccupation has caught his international contemporaries by surprise.
"I'm not aware of this work," said Ian Corbett, general secretary of the executive committee of the Paris-based International Astronomical Union. "But it is very hard to take seriously."
The IAU website shows Filipov as an active member.
Filipov's colleagues inside Bulgaria are more peevish. There is a move afoot to force his resignation from the Space Research Institute.
"In Bulgaria now, we have a very strange reaction to my research," Filipov said. "The people in Bulgaria are frightened, they don't understand this.
"You must understand that this is a very complicated situation."

Lol - Astrobiology is a cool field of study... Earthly Aliens are everywhere..Over and out there from here..

I like the idea that the aliens don't like in vitro fertilization or cosmetics.

Talking to invisible aliens....Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. What's complicated?

How come if one has letters behind the name, they give research grants ... but if one does the same thing as an everyday Joe, one gets the folks with the butterfly nets?

The non-existent and the invisible look very much the same. lol (Paraphrasing Delos Banning McKown).

Curses....They've found us out....

What if the letters behind your name are C.R.A.Z.Y. ???

...or the one that caught most of the attention was 'V'.....

Of course they don't like in vitro. It would have been no fun when they were genetically engineering the human race. I hear they like screwing with their subjects.

If I'm not mistaken, something has been lost in the translation. What they actually said was that they don't like serialized comedic vitriol. I think this has something to do with Don Rickles and the Dean Martin roasts. Apparently, Don really pissed them off as they do resemble hockey pucks.

if the world is going to end in 3 years, it won't matter if aliens exist or not. lol.

Oh, aliens exist. I'm living proof.

You know, they do have some wicked strong vodka over there. The author of that article, though, doesn't seem to know much about Republicans. They think global warming is a hoax and are extremely fond of cosmetics. Remember Tammy Faye Baker?