Is There Anybody Out There?

No ... I'm not quoting a Pink Floyd song. It's all about the Aliens this go 'round. Recently there was a video posted on the web that appears to show a "cloaked" alien spacecraft, hiding in orbit behind the planet Mercury. A solar flash or something like that shoots out from the Sun and illuminates this thing. It's friggen HUGE. It remains stationary as the energy blast pours over it, exposing it to the view of a military satellite camera. I watched it several times and it is quite convincing. But in an age where computers can do pretty much anything to digital film footage, it's hard to put much stock in anything we see via video.

But, let's take a look at this from a purely scientific slant. What are the odds, out of all of the billions of trillions of stars out there and all the gazillions of planets ... What are the odds that Earth is the only planet with intelligent life on it? The odds are crap compared to the pure statistical probability that we are NOT the only ones. Even if you put God into the formula ... Why would He create the entire Universe and decide to only put life on our tiny, little spec of a planet? If this is the only place where anything like that is going on, what the heck is all that other stuff out there for?

Granted ... It is a psychological tendency of humans in general, to confine their thoughts to the environment in which we live. Thinking outside that is something we have to stretch our minds to do. We also have a psychological predisposition to think of ourselves as special ... Like the Universe was built around US ... Like we are the only ones. But in order to truly examine the probability of other-worldly life, we need to put those limitations aside for a bit. Yup ... There isn't any obvious mention of other planets being populated in the Bible. There is no mention of computers either ... or race cars ... or fruit rollups ... or Red Bull ... The Bible was written a very long time ago. The things in it are things that were known to mankind at that time. The world was flat. Stars were pinholes, punched in the curtain of night. Volcanoes had angry demons living in them. If we are to assume God gave us the Bible, we also have to assume He only gave us what we could handle at the time. Telling us about outer space and nuclear fission would have been a waste of time back then. I'm obviously not trying to say I KNOW any of this. I'm just running down a chain of logic.

So ... What if there ARE aliens? Who's to say they are even slightly interested in us? Who's to say they live close enough to visit? Believing there is intelligent life elsewhere does not predicate belief in alien visitors to our planet. But let's say they ARE interested in us ... and they DO live close enough to visit ... One might ask, "Then why haven't they landed on the White House lawn and asked to be taken to our proverbial leader?" Well ... If you flew to Italy for a vacation, would you jump off the plane and ask to be taken to their leader? I know I wouldn't. I'd just go around looking at stuff and enjoying my visit. We assume that any alien visitors are either from their military or their scientific community when in all likelihood, they could well be tourists! I mean ... They always seem to interact with common folk ... They seem to like abducting people who are out in the middle of nowhere (They probably think they are hitchhikers), they have a penchant for cows and landmarks ... They sound like tourists to me.

Anyway ... I've prattled on long enough. Depending on what kind of comments I get on this post, I might write more later.
In the meantime:

Thanx for spending a little time with me.
I appreciate it.
Billy