Here are the presentations from the recent Global Competitiveness Forum held in Saudi Arabia, which featured a panel about ET life ("Contact Learning From Outer Space"), from various perspectives.
Stanton Friedman
Nick Pope
Michio Kaku
Zaghloul El Naggar
Jacques Vallee
Not quite the same as being there, but a fascinating and thought-provoking cross-section of views nonetheless.
Paul Kimball
3 comments:
Nick Pope, always eager to please, plays to (his perception of) the desires of the audience, and so makes the least useful, most clichéd comments imaginable.
Well, Terry, we'll just have to disagree on this one. I thought Nick's speech was the best precisely because it was specifically tailored for that particular audience. The whole focus of those conferences was on global competitiveness, so Pope's approach —there's $$ to be made in the search for ET!— was well played.
After that my 2nd favorite was Vallee's. Michio and Stan are always fun to hear, but somehow I feel they kept using their usual arguments —the ant analogy, the blacked out memos, etc.
PS: Though, to be fair, Stan's statement that "the future is not an extrapolation of the past" was brilliant :)
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