It's the USA in 1947. Albert Einstein looks around the room at the assembled Great Scientific Brains and says - You know the
old British joke about parochialism - a news vendor's sign reads "Fog In Channel, Continent Isolated"? Here's one about the
US scientific establishment which pretends not to accept the overwhelming likelihood of intelligent aliens in the Universe -
"Fog In Earth Orbit, Universe Isolated". Nobody laughed. They were all too frightened to laugh. There was a green alien worm
in the room wearing a human being like an overcoat. It was President Harry S Truman.
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