Following On From Yesterday

[poliphilo]

Yes. I think it's very likely we have visitors. Planet Earth is at a crucial phase in its history: it's developing a global society, it has weapons of mass destruction, it has rudimentary space travel. We're no longer galactic peasants, we're becoming contenders. We're at an interesting age.  If I were an intelligent extraterrestrial I'd be motivated to drop by and take a peek- even perhaps violate the prime directive and give things a bit of a nudge.

We can no longer- plausibly- argue that we're alone in the universe. Our telescopes keep detecting planets in the orbit of neighbouring stars- and just the other day- for the first time-  we found one that replicates conditions on Earth. Actually there must be billions of them. 

Of course the visitors may not be coming from other planets. They may be sliding in from other dimensions. They may be hopping back from our own future. The old, mechanical universe our grandfathers had their heads in ruled such things out of court, but we're living in a quantum universe now. 

What would be really weird would be if everyone out there was ignoring us.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I find the subject of UFOs and alien visitors both fascinating and frustrating.

I'm not paranoid enough to think the government is hiding anything from us, but the information we get seems so fuzzy: we see blurry glimpses of ships (never ever a clear image), anecdotal evidence that can't be proved, so that it's like ghost stories, or legends.

...What exactly happened to Bernadette of Lourdes? What happened when the children saw Mary-or something-and the sun supposedly receded and danced around in the sky and thousands supposedly witnessed it (or got hysterical)?

And (my sister certainly shares my frustration) what did my own sister see that night when she was nineteen and had just dropped me off at 10 30 at night, then drove down the alley and back up the deserted road, and saw over a brick house a glowing ball bigger than a house? With windowlike areas that glowed in different colors?

She tells me she drove off in terror, no one was around, and she looked into her rear view mirror and it was still there!

Everyone listened, but without any context it was hard to believe she didn't imagine something--the moon? A streetlight?

My sister doesn't talk about her experience anymore. But she knows what she saw.

That's the frustrating part for me: I believe her, but I don't expect to ever know why, who, how.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Weird stuff happens- and it happens a lot. Sadly it never happens to me- which makes me cross- because I'm someone who would appreciate it.