The Week contest: Virginia aliens

This week's question: A recent study identified Virginia as the state best equipped to survive an alien invasion. If the state were to change its tourism motto from "Virginia Is for Lovers" to a phrase that promotes this surprising strength, what would it be?

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THE WINNER: "Virginia: land of inalienable rights"

Barry Cutler, Palm Desert, California

SECOND PLACE: "Virginia is for intelligent lifeforms (Certain restrictions apply)"

Nancy Rockefeller, Delmar, New York

THIRD PLACE: "Where lovers can relax, if Mars attacks"

John Bregoli, Weymouth, Massachusetts

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

"Virginia: Come hunker in our bunkers."

Nina Ciffolillo, South Portland, Maine

"Virginia: Let's not get carried away!"

Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California

"Virginia loves all strange species, even from D.C."

George Strong, Plano, Texas

"Virginia is for lovers and other strangers"

Mary Jo Astrachan, Oneida, New York

"We're already good at being a colony."

Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania

"Virginia is for lovers, unless your spaceship hovers!"

Sharon Dearman, Daytona Beach Shores, Florida

"Virginia isn't for dinner"

Steve Gilland, Raleigh, North Carolina

"There's no ET in V.A."

Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts

"May Virginia's force be with you."

Wendy Miller Hervatic, Stewartsville, New Jersey

"Virginia. ET, Stay home."

Jim Hotvedt, Amherst Junction, Wisconsin

"We survived the British, didn't we?"

Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas