01/19/2023

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I've never been a UFO person.

I have friends who are UFO true believers and I respect that, people believe what they believe and that's okay.

But I'm afraid I'm not one.

I have no problem with the idea that out there "somewhere" life has also evolved into higher forms.

Space is big, really big - I mean no matter how big you think space is - it's bigger than that - A LOT BIGGER! SUPER-DUPER BIGGER!

The distances we are talking about are just too great to think they're coming here.

I mean, we're not talking here to Australia distances,
we're not talking here to the moon distances,
we're not talking here to to the sun distances,
or even here to Pluto distances.

These are tiny by comparison.

We're talking really, REALLY big distances - SUPER-DUPER big distances.
No matter how far you think it is just to the next star - it's a LOT farther than that - and that's just the closest one.

I don't think they'd bothered to come here and/or act this way if they did.

If they did come here, I'd expect them to behave more like in the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" - they'd land in downtown Washington DC.

They'd kick butts and take over.

Neil Degrasse-Tyson said - if these guys can fly half way across the galaxy but don't know how to land and have to crash when they get here - I don't want to meet them anyway - they must be a bunch of morons :-)

I think there's three categories of "UFO people" - honest people who see "something" but don't know what it is - okay, I can believe that, hoaxsters "buy my book" types and crazy people - that - well they're just plain crazy.

I suppose anything is "possible", but this has always seemed so unlikely as to be essentially impossible.

I don't believe in the Easter Bunny either.

I guess I have to say it's "possible" there could be an Easter Bunny - but I don't really think so.

Catch an alien and put them in a zoo and have scientists study them publicly for a year or so with peer review by other scientists - then tell me they're real.

Then I'll think about it :-)

But lights in the sky that some Nebraska farmer sees on his way home from the bar on a Friday night - I don't think so. Not likely.

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A friend of mine used to say "if the cosmic phone rings - don't answer it!"

They might eat things like us (ala the classic Twilight Zone episode "'To Serve Man' - It's a Cookbook!").

Or, we could end up picking cotton on a plantation orbiting Alpha Centauri.

Neither appeals to me.

It wasn't good for the Indians when Columbus showed up :-)

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Some people think we're already here, that we're shape shifting lizard aliens and that we secretly walk among you - sort of like Canadians.

OOPS!!! - I meant to say "THEY'RE already here" and "THEY'RE shape shifting lizard aliens" and "THEY secretly walk among US".

Anyway, I gotta go, I'm getting pretty hungry and I have to catch a few bugs for lunch. I especially like those cockroaches.

Yummy yum! Mighty tastee! - You know, we don't have bugs where I come from.

Nice place this planet you call "earth".

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"The truth is is out there!" - Ignore it :-)


Stay Jazzed, Earthling,
--Tom Swezey





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