
I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an excellent chance that the
Earth will be destroyed in the next several days.  Congress is thinking
about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals
to alien beings.  This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have nuclear
blaster death cannons.  You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they
were merely poor people ...
                -- Dave Barry, "THE ALIENS ARE COMING, THE ALIENS ARE COMING!"
