Is someone really out there?
I watched Steven Spielberg's "War of the Worlds" this week and ever since have been wondering about ETs that have been the subjects of so many Hollywood blockbusters and bestselling novels. This has truly been an ET week for me because I managed to finish reading Dan Brown's "Deception Point" which also talks about the possibilities of extra-terrestrial life. So, are there really little green men out there or is just our imagination?
Conspiracy theory has it that all the UFO sightings and unusual happenings, are some form of military testing, and accidentally when any ordinary person sees it, they are made to believe that our planet is being visited by neighbours from different solar systems. The spacecraft with colorful lightings and unusual design does seem out of this world to any common man. But, little do we suspect that they are made right here and would be part of our lives some where down the lane, because as Dan Brown says "the technology used by US military is 12 years ahead of what we see commercially".
But, knowing that there are gzillion galaxies and each containing gzillion stars, there definitely seems a possibility that there could be some form of life somewhere other than Earth. Considering that such creatures do exist, my imagination runs wild as to how would they look. Would they be like the friendly ET in the movie "ET" or the hostile Tripods in "War of the Worlds" or a thousand other forms created by different Directors or would they resemble us considering the fact that one of the planets in one of the galaxies has atmospheric conditions precisely as our planet. Afterall, Mother Earth has about 5 million known species and God knows how many unknown ones, there could be one being out there who looks like one of these 5 million species. It could also be possible that they do not have our senses, but probably have some other forms of perception which we are unaware of.
Movies have always shown that these beings are more advanced than us with superior spacecrafts, communication systems and intelligence. But, what if they are not as smart as us and that is why they haven't been able to contact us? Our astrophycists are atleast trying to send out messages to other distant planets, but is someone able to receive it and if so what are they doing about it? What if they do not have means of listening or understanding the messages we are sending them, as in they do not have sophisticated receivers or transmitters.
Makes me wonder what would happen if one of the NASA scientists searching for different life forms in the universe, lands in a planet and is confronted by beings similar to our ants or reptiles, while the planet is still evolving. That would be an ultimate waste of tax-payers money. Or, maybe not a total waste, because we did find that we have neighbours in this vast universe. What after that? Do we constantly live in the fear that since there is one planet with living things, there could be numerous others, and one day when those things learn about Earth and us, we can have Star Wars? Phew! What doesn't Hollywood do to a person...
Conspiracy theory has it that all the UFO sightings and unusual happenings, are some form of military testing, and accidentally when any ordinary person sees it, they are made to believe that our planet is being visited by neighbours from different solar systems. The spacecraft with colorful lightings and unusual design does seem out of this world to any common man. But, little do we suspect that they are made right here and would be part of our lives some where down the lane, because as Dan Brown says "the technology used by US military is 12 years ahead of what we see commercially".
But, knowing that there are gzillion galaxies and each containing gzillion stars, there definitely seems a possibility that there could be some form of life somewhere other than Earth. Considering that such creatures do exist, my imagination runs wild as to how would they look. Would they be like the friendly ET in the movie "ET" or the hostile Tripods in "War of the Worlds" or a thousand other forms created by different Directors or would they resemble us considering the fact that one of the planets in one of the galaxies has atmospheric conditions precisely as our planet. Afterall, Mother Earth has about 5 million known species and God knows how many unknown ones, there could be one being out there who looks like one of these 5 million species. It could also be possible that they do not have our senses, but probably have some other forms of perception which we are unaware of.
Movies have always shown that these beings are more advanced than us with superior spacecrafts, communication systems and intelligence. But, what if they are not as smart as us and that is why they haven't been able to contact us? Our astrophycists are atleast trying to send out messages to other distant planets, but is someone able to receive it and if so what are they doing about it? What if they do not have means of listening or understanding the messages we are sending them, as in they do not have sophisticated receivers or transmitters.
Makes me wonder what would happen if one of the NASA scientists searching for different life forms in the universe, lands in a planet and is confronted by beings similar to our ants or reptiles, while the planet is still evolving. That would be an ultimate waste of tax-payers money. Or, maybe not a total waste, because we did find that we have neighbours in this vast universe. What after that? Do we constantly live in the fear that since there is one planet with living things, there could be numerous others, and one day when those things learn about Earth and us, we can have Star Wars? Phew! What doesn't Hollywood do to a person...
posted by Ace of Space at
7/08/2005 05:09:00 PM
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