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July 4th, 2007

The answer is yes

Posted by chrislintott in Uncategorized

The BBC ask Six decades on from the first flying saucer, is the riddle solved?

Not by anyone with their grasp of maths, I think:

And for every sceptic who prefers explanations of weather balloons and freak atmospheric conditions there is someone who genuinely believes intelligent life is visiting the planet. A national newspaper survey in 1998 suggested 33% of men and 24% of women thought aliens had already visited the earth.

…unless they’re claiming that 33% of men and 52% of women are in on the conspiracy and thus had no comment to make.

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  1. Judith-Anne MacKenzie said,

    on July 4th, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    Your 1998 figures suggest women are at least 9 % saner (or more scientific) than men. Big surprise? Not really!!!

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