).Yeah, anyway, here's the scenario. NASA, and many independent astronomers have recently noticed a huge (>600 metres) spaceship in orbit around Earth. They have tried contacting it but there has been no answer. Then, one day, it is gone. Of course, major speculation ensumes all around Earth regarding the origin of that thing, and if it really was a spaceship. The pictures the telescopes managed to get were quite blurry after all, though the object did clearly seem to emit some light.
Now, the ship wasn't the only thing that suddenly disappeared. A member of this board did, too. Unbeknowst to everyone else, this person was actually picked up by a small transport ship launched from the larger spaceship, for reasons not entirely clear. It was one of those silent lurkers that mostly just likes to read the threads here and only occasionaly comments, so no-one immediately notice his absence. However, the person in question is very excited and a bit anxious about his "abduction", and understandably so. Fortunately, these aliens, which have studied Earth for some years now, have a computer terminal that is super-luminally linked to a communications probe stationed near Earth. They use this to listen to all radio communication on Earth, which means that they have (you guessed it) inter-galactic broadband.
To make this person a little more comfortable in his extraordinary position, the seemingly friendly aliens let him use this computer terminal to access the earthly Internet. Of course, he wants to tell people on Earth that, holy shit; he is in fucking space in a fucking starship! But he doesn't really want to create one of those weird hypes like that guy who claimed he was a time-traveller from the future. So he decides to address a more reasonable crowd; SDN, and partly because he knows all the sci-fi fans here would, perhaps more so than others, appreciate this weird revelation. So he goes to HoS (to avoid unnecessary publicity and the subsequent bandwidth-death of SDN) and clicks to start a new thread.
"I'm in fucking space!!"
But then he hestitates and remember that there is a down-side to all this reason: Everyone is going to think that he is lying through his teeth and he would surely be banned for not being able to back up his quite preposterous claims. And rightly so, due to the extremely improbable nature of it all.
So, question number one is: What kind of evidence would he have to supply in order to convince most or everyone here that he is in fact on board a spaceship from another galaxy (according to the ETs; he can't know that of course). Obivously, it's going to have to be evidence that he can send through the Internet. He won't be able to make the ship go back or anything like that.
Question number two: Would it be reasonable to assume the object seen was in fact a spaceship? If so, would that give more credibility to his story? If not, if he could prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is on a spaceship, would it then be reasonable to assume the object was a spaceship, or in fact, the spaceship?
What do you think?
*end RAR! Rest is personal reflections*
First, I thought that I obviously wouldn't believe a word of what this crazy person said. But then, what if he had a camera, and took pictures the ship? He gets a little more credible, but it could just mean that he's a really good CG artist (in fact, that would be a highly reasonable conclusion). Okay, so pictures isn't good enough. What about a video camera, then? He records the ship and himself in a few video clips, which he sends for us here to see. "Looks like deleted scenes from Star Wars", says someone, and is right. He still could just be really good with that 3D-program, although those aliens sure did look and sound real, and strange that there was a weird computer with SDN on it. But that could be faked, maybe not so easily though.
The thing I came up with that would be very hard to fake would be to set up a real-time web-cam feed, where people get to suggest places that he should show us. Like the bridge (which actually might be off-limits for him) or the inter-galactic toilet and lots of random stuff. And the hangar, definitely the hangar! If he could pull that off, I think I might believe him, at least until someone could show that it was fake (even though it wasn't, but nevermind that), but I'd still think it was the oddest thing ever.
If you agree with my idea, what would you ask him to do?
