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(Msg. 16) Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:30 am
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in article VA.00000518.49a0417a.DeleteThis@mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid, Aidan
Karley at aidan.DeleteThis@mynameplus1.demon.co.uk.invalid wrote on 1/29/05 6:00 PM:

 > I think the comment was that "Louis was the only person *alive*
 > who had made First Contact with an alien species".>>


correct:

" "Then why me?" he asked. "I don't know," she confessed. "Could it be the
charisma? You're a hero, you know." He was the only living man to have made
first contact with an alien species. Would he ever live down the Trinoc
episode?"

That makes the
 > previous first contact more than a generation previously.

well .. actually it just means that anybody else who had met an alien first
is dead. But it does have to be more than 20 years:

"We know the Trinocs bought from you, and we didn't meet the Trinocs until
twenty years ago."<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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