Posts Tagged ‘aliens’

Just a thought I had today:
The closest star to our planet is 4.2 light years away. Let’s assume life exists there, and they have ships advanced enough to fly ten times the speed of light. That means it would still take them over five months to get here. Even for a four-man (-being?) crew, you’re [...]

There’s a Czechoslovakian man who believes aliens are trying to assassinate him. Meteorites have struck his house five times in the past several months, and because this defies the odds, he’s concluded it must be aliens.
Now, I can understand the thought popping into his head. I once heard a thunk in my car and thought [...]

In my aliens-as-religion post a couple weeks back I mentioned the way some people undersell human ingenuity. For example, there are those who believe aliens must have built the pyramids because they can’t fathom the primitive Egyptians being capable of assembling the blocks.
Then along come people like Wally Wallington. He’s rebuilding Stonehenge by hand, using [...]

I glanced at a table near the bathroom in the local Borders store and found an Illinois MUFON application staring back at me.
I was in the mood for a laugh, so I snapped one up. It turns out for twenty bucks, I too can join the search for little green men in flying saucers. I [...]