The Apparant Insurmounity (if that's a word) of Designing a UFO

PJ and I were having a discussion about UFO's. We think it would be cool to design UFO's.

Anything is better then sheet-metal boxes.

So yeah, it would be cool to design a UFO. Think of the recognition, the fame. You could be the life of the party (or at least invited). But, as we were envisioning our future glory, what occured to PJ, and in turn shattered our bubble, is that the whole thing is quite impossible.

In attempting to design a UFO, you run into an insurmountable difficulty. And that is this. If you design a UFO you know you have designed it, and if everyone else knows you have designed it, well then it is no longer really very unidentified.

Thus its only a FO, which is not nearly as sexy to design as a UFO.

All this means, of course, that a true UFO was never designed by anybody. Even god.

Its all very existential you see.

So even having the good intention of designing a UFO, having done so you couldn't go around saying it, initiating reactions of awe and amazement and causing people to bow down before you, because it wouldn't be true and people would think you're a liar and a fraud and instead they'd spit on your shoes.

Just like they do now.

And of course, if you went around telling the truth, saying you designed FO's, then people would tell you to FO yourself. And that wouldn't be good either.

This is a terrible paradox. Its quite distressing to realise that my dream of designing a UFO will never be attained.

- posted by Sigurd2/04/2005 10:10:00 AM