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Is there intelligent life out there?

When I was about twelve, I used to sit on a swing outside our apartment and stare up at the sky for (what seemed like) hours.  Getting to know the constellations and their positioning depending on the time, I adopted my dog in the sky.  Later it turns out it was Orion, just transformed a little to my own likings.  So, from that time even until today, I look up to the stars to find my dog and each time I see it, I use it as a landmark for a direction to cast my thoughts, prayers, wishes, complaints, and even desires for alien abduction.  Yes, I would love to be abducted by aliens.  I think it would be the high moment in my life to be taken off this world for a little while.  Probe me, dissect me (of course, they’ll put me back together), and use me for whatever scientific research desired, and I won’t complain.  When I think of life on other planets, it really does make sense.  To think that we are the sole intelligent species capable of “advancing” our race is completely absurd.  If this is true, then I want a refund.

Sometimes I really do wonder how many times we may have been visited by other races that just want to check us out to see if we’ve advanced beyond the primal instinctive nature that dominates our society.  I could just imagine them watching our wars, our greed, our inability to get along even within a single culture and then grabbing their alien version of popcorn and pointing and laughing like we are some sitcom along the lines of the three stooges (only on a much grander scale that provides way more laughs).

Don’t get me wrong, our world isn’t all bad.  We have our ups and downs, good points and bad, and beauty along with our desolate ugliness.  We are an extremely varied environment not only physically, but socially, economically, religiously, and pretty much every word you can stick a “ly” on the end of.  Diversity is certainly not our weak point.  Yet too often we want to attribute nothing but positive to the word diversity when oftentimes it is that very diverse nature that holds us back.  Economic diversity has been the biggest struggle of our society.  The advent of monetary representation instantly divides and limits society in a way that removes what brilliance and possible advances could come from many sources, disregarding the “diamond in the rough” philosophy for a more “diamond in the hand” approach.  How much sooner would inventions to increase productivity, advances in medicine, psychology, space travel, and leisurely activities shown up had the thoughts and ideas of the oppressed been allowed to be expressed and used, rather than shut out or exploited?

As for the idea that there are aliens from outer space, watching us, waiting to make contact with us.  Do you think there are any?  Personally, I don’t think there are.  Not saying I don’t think there are any extra terrestrials, because I fully believe there is life out there.  But, I honestly don’t think that a species capable of space travel and one that possesses such advanced technology would have even the slightest interest in our world, except for maybe a field trip for one of their “humanity” classes that shows what their race could have been, had they not worked together and acted as a whole.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that if we want to believe there are universes ready to be explored and sentient life forms longing to meet us, then we as a collective world society need to be the kind of society that others would like to meet.  How many of us have had neighbors that are constantly fighting?  How many of us have neighbors that you can hear across the street yelling and screaming, and then when they step out of their house are all smiles and friendly, and all you can think is, “wow, you hypocrites!”?  Wouldn’t we be the galactic equivalent to that?  We can’t even keep our streets safe, or keep from exploiting our neighbors for our own gain long enough to actually get to know each other.  Envy, greed, and an exploitive nature is all we have to show for our “society” at this point.  Honestly, I would be embarrassed to show the little green men around my world!

So, basically, I have to say that a visit from ET would be a bad thing right now.  Until we get our house in order, company is just not a good idea!  I could just hear our leaders, “Ok, citizens, we’re expecting company, please be on your best behavior, and keep the guests away from our inner cities, countries at war, democrats, republicans, France, and…” You get the idea.  It just wouldn’t fly at the moment.

Until next time.

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