UFOs Don't Stop Here

Well into his forties, my cousin proposed going to Florida for the weekend to "watch the skies." The plan was to park on a dark back road next to Choctawhatchee Bay, gazing intently at the night sky for any unusual lights or phenomena. The trip would cost next to nothing as only gas was necessary for the trip, and for my half of the expenses, I would enjoy the comfort of living in a car for the weekend next to Eglin Air Force base.

When we were kids, I visited my aunt's home for a week. After days of ping pong and hunting spring lizards got old, one morning at breakfast he announced he was being watched through his window as he slept. As proof he went outside and discovered two impressions in the mulch behind a shrub at his bedroom window. Because the creature was extremely tall, these semicircular holes were the impressions of its knees, where it kneeled for hours of observance. As further proof, the holes were still warm when touched. This evidence was enough to hang an entire theory about the outer-worldly visitation, and also enough fertilizer to build wild assumptions about what else happened as he slept.

I thought of all this while making coffee in the kitchen, before going to work in my home office. I had the wide screen HD tuned to Maury Povich, listening to the human tragedy de jure, "who's the baby daddy?", and like a shot, it hit me.

Would intelligent life, from say, anywhere else, stop by to study us, for say, any reason? I hardly think so. To help understand just how hopeless we are, watch ETV for a study of our fellow creatures.

We marvel at the skill and organization of ants and bees. We praise the resolve of colonies of termites in building huge domes against the elements. We see the genius of fish schools, sticking together in large numbers to become a camouflage screen to hungry predators. How surprised we are that chimpanzees use sticks as eating utensils.

Now imagine a sentient being from light-years away stopping by for a dose of what our own race has to offer. They land to take soil samples, perform medical experiments on sexual organs, spirit children away to other galaxies, all while watching billions of earthly creatures in a dance macabre of self destruction.

What beneficial knowledge comes from watching us completely ruin our global economy, then spend trillions more to keep it that way? Do they really want our DNA to save their race from extinction? Did they leave behind their DNA as spores in a culture to some day come back and reap the benefits of their Eden?

Yeah, right.

If the carnage of twentieth century's WWII (60 million dead) wasn't enough, in the first decade of the twenty-first we've embarked on total annihilation by stupidity. If these supposed aliens from space be the source of our DNA, then they died at their own hand millions of years ago. After all, it's all in the genes.