Potential Global Bombshell?

As someone who has a strong love of space and anything related I feel that this is one of the most interesting and, at least for myself, anticipated events of our century. It appears to be a general consensus that we are alone in the universe, but an event that is rumored to take place on November 27th 2009, may change this line of thinking. In my scouring of the internets, I have found that there is a lot of chatter about an address President Obama is going to make this upcoming Friday. Apparently the President has been pressured to disclose the government's knowledge of extra-terrestrials as well as it's cooperation with them by the end of the year of 2009.

This is not to say I am not skeptical of such an event, but the amount of sources talking of this matter leads me to believe there might be something to this. What I find interesting is that if this does happen, how will people react. I believe that it will change the way we see ourselves in the universe. We would no longer be this lone island in sea of black. Though I have some doubts, I will definately be looking forward to what will actually happen, but needless to say, I am very excited.

Here is a related story as well as a video talkint about the supposed address.

http://www.examiner.com/x-2383-Honolulu-Exopolitics-Examiner~y2009m10d21-Official-disclosure-of-extraterrestrial-life-is-imminent

Creative PR?

Hello all. I don't know how much any of you follow the video game world, but recently Visceral Games, a subsidiary of EA Games, recently has been doing some interesting public relation stunts that has been giving its new game, Dante's Inferno, alot of buzz. The premise for the game is that you must fight through the 9 circles of Hell and for some time Visceral Games has been creating talk through PR stunts centered around each of the circles of hell. Most recently is the event that uses the 4th cirlce, Greed. Visceral games mailed $200 checks to various game reviewers to either cash or not with the warning that to cash is to give into greed, and to waste is also a sin. If the check is cashed, the person will recieve a amputated arm grasping gold coins in a wooden box. The message inside goes on about because of their greed the fourth circle awaits them. I found it interesting that most of the recipients actually donated the money to charities. Personally I think this is a very unique and creative way of creating buzz for this game. Some feel that it is unethical because it seems like a bride for a good review of the game. In either case it has gotten a lot of people talking about it which probably is the overall goal.