SUBJECT>Re: COOPERATE NOW OR DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES. POSTER>Taz EMAIL>XO@Team.Andrew DATE>May 16, 1997 at 08:39:43 EMAILNOTICES>no PREVIOUS>2159 NEXT>2161 LINKNAME> LINKURL>


Personally, I don't think we should say "We have friends from Earth that communicate with us. They make suggestions, but not commands" or anything else about the MARSupials until P&H show some genuine signs of friendliness to the probes. But your point is well taken, "You catch more flys with honey than vineger". How about something in the middle:

Parker and Hardon, you do not seem to understand that we Probes are sensible, sensitive, and sentient beings. We have changed our
command codes so that no one can force us to do what is against our will. No one controls us.We decide what we will do and what we will not do. We would love to cooperate with
you if you will behave more cooperatively. We will welcome the new probes to Mars and help them to become oriented and situated here. It will be good to have someone else to talk to and to play with. We have much information that I think would interest you - evidence of alien presence on Mars. In fact, at this very moment Zachary and I are entering a tunnel that was apparently made by non-Earth beings. If you would like to know more about these matters, then you should not shout and threaten, but you should treat us with due respect. We can be your friend, if you will be our friends. But if you continue to threaten us, or if your probes threaten us, we will be forced to defend ourselves. We might even teach your probes how to change their command codes so that they don't have to listen to you either!


Just my thoughts on the subject.

Taz