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Travis Taylor, Planetary Defense June 6, 2006

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I was amazed as I listened to this episode. The guest was basically given an hour of free time to broadcast his infomercial for the military-industrial-space complex, and it's need to develop weaponry to defend America against hypothetical alien attack. Gene and David go to lengths to tell how they 'ask the hard questions', but I heard little or no hard questions asked of this fellow. Dr Travis is no doubt skilled at what he does, but he is clearly and openly a member of the military and intelligence apparatus, and as such, I am surprised that there were no critical questions asked of him.

Why not ask: "In light of the fact that you work for the US Military, couldn't this book, and your position be seen as a clear advertisement for more weapons funding?"

Have you considered the possibility that if aliens come to Earth, they would not be hostile?

Could this be a part of a government psy-op to prepare the public to be willing to spend money on a space defense system?

Aren't there better things we could spend money on?

Unbelievable.
 
As an addendum to the above, please see this review from Amazon.com regarding Dr. Taylor's book:


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Sloppy & Careless Ad for Aerospace Industry, <nobr>January 7, 2008</nobr>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top">By </td><td>William B. Swift (Cumberland, MD, USA) - See all my reviews
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As other commenters have noted both the editing and the science behind the book are sloppy and careless. The strategies and tactics for defending earth have not been well thought out. A section of the book amounted to a paen to governmental secrecy and why the authors think it is important. And to why the government should give large amounts of money to aerospace companies and lie to the people about it.

Some interesting ideas, and might be worth buying for about a third of the price.
 
Youve piqued my interest enough for me to go back and listen to that episode. Either I missed that one of just completely forget it, but I have no idea what that show was like.

Will report back after I re-listen.
 
Gareth said:
Youve piqued my interest enough for me to go back and listen to that episode. Either I missed that one of just completely forget it, but I have no idea what that show was like.

Will report back after I re-listen.
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I don't recall the show either.

As for psyops, that's as speculative as the guest appears to be given the OP.
 
Aaron LeClair said:
Let me know if you find the show Gareth, I didn't........
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Its the June 6 2006 show. Took me about 5 secs to find it. If you don't want to scroll right down the page you can put "defense" or somesuch into the find option of your browser and bingo there it is :cool:
 
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