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5/31/2008
THE ALIENS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED
CATEGORY: Science, Space

No, my politically inclined friends not those kind of aliens. The kind of alien I’m talking about does not cut a hole in a border fence and sneak across with the help of a “coyote,” settling down in LA and immediately becoming a drain on government services.

At least, there’s no evidence to the contrary. Especially after reading this today:

The Denver man who is pushing a ballot measure to have the city form an “ET Commission” showed video of what he says is an alien Friday morning at a news conference. Reporters were allowed to view the video, but only a still image of it was released to the media.

Jeff Peckman said aliens visit his friend Stan Romanke all the time.

Romanke, who lives in Colorado Springs, allegedly recorded the alien video while living in Nebraska.

The pair has a deal with a documentary company for the rights to the video.

“Not all wrinkly like ET, the extraterrestrial, just youthful, smooth skin, large wide kind of eyes,” said Peckman.

Romanke has posted drawings of the aliens he reportedly sees on his Web site.


The video is grainy, in black and white, and shows what Peckman says is an alien peeking through a window a couple of times. As the Sainted Sagan tells us, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.” And folks, this video just ain’t cuttin’ it.

This is the sort of alien you will be reading about today. It is the kind that many gullible people (and many who should know better) think visits the earth all the time and mingles with us earthlings, always managing to avoid the authorities who, we are told, are eager to get their hands on ET to perform all sorts of deadly experiments and autopsies.

These folks from another planet also seem to have a tremendous knack for avoiding cameras, DVR’s, and other recording devices. They are extremely adept at not leaving one shred of proof that they were ever here and wouldn’t you know it, instead of alighting here on earth and being eager to talk to scientists who would give their right arm to sit down with one of the beings for 15 minutes, these aliens always seem to end up talking to ordinary folk who, we are further told, wouldn’t lie or try and carry out a hoax to save their life.

Now, I should say at the outset that I believe there are intelligent civilizations somewhere out there. I also believe there are space faring beings whose civilizations are so old that they have probably toured the universe at least once.

I am also quite certain that there are many, many more of the former than the latter. So do the folks at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) who have been searching nearby stars in a so far fruitless quest to glean an intelligent signal from a civilization that may also be looking for some company. But their quest is a longshot at best given all the variables that must be met and no one is very optimistic that they will succeed.

The question isn’t whether or not there is intelligent life in the universe. The question is has it ever visited earth. The idea that one necessarily follows the other is absurd. There are many forms of intelligence as we know from just studying the animal world here on earth and it could very well be that other intelligent species either have little interest in what’s beyond their little world or are simply incapable of grasping the complexities of the universe the same way that we do.

Perhaps they aren’t toolmakers. Perhaps their intelligence is of a collective variety and original thought is something rare. There are a thousand reasons an intelligent society would not be reaching out to us and few reasons why they would.

And what about an alien race taking a cosmic jaunt in a spacecraft to visit earth? The question is not how arrogant you think I am for not believing but rather how arrogant you are for thinking there is anything a civilization hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or millions of years more advanced than we would find remotely interesting enough to expend the huge effort it would take to build a ship that could traverse the stars. If nothing else, these advanced aliens would be eminently practical beings and the return on an investment of that size would be so extraordinarily small if they came to places like earth that they would have to be crazy to undertake such folly.

The fact is, all this speculation is, in and of itself, ridiculous. There’s a very good chance, exo-biologists tell us, that we wouldn’t even recognize alien life as being alive. Their thought processes would be so, well, alien that communication would be extraordinarily difficult. Our problem is that our imaginations are limited to our earthbound experiences. We simply can’t picture what a real alien would look like because it is probable that the way life developed on other planets would be radically different than the way it developed on earth.

But what about UFO’s? Clearly, there are unexplained sightings of flying objects tha cry out for investigation. But as the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) – a “scientific” group that has lost much of its standing among skeptics in recent years due to its slipshod methods and “UFO’s are alien spacecraft” boosterism – tells us, more than 93% of these sightings are easily explained and credible, earthbound explanations are usually available for those few incidents where proof is scant. If people realized how few of these sightings weren’t hoaxes or meteors, or the planet Venus, the idea that we are being inundated by aliens and that earth is some kind of Grand Central Station for extraterrestrial spacecraft would disappear.

There are many explanations for why there may be space travelling civilizations in the universe but never make it here. The biggest obstacle is time – not just the journey itself but the ticking clock of extinction that faces all species we know of. How long do intelligent civilizations last? How many succeed in not blowing themselves up or poisoning themselves? How many avoid being pulverized by asteroids or comets? There are a million ways for a civilization to die and the law of averages says that precious few would advance far enough and fast enough to be capable of building a ship to the stars before being destroyed.

Another problem with time is that our universe is 13 billion years old and that during that time, millions of civilizations would have risen capable of space travel. But the earth is only 4 billion years old with intelligent life an incredibly recent phenomena. It is a given that only a certain number of space faring civilizations exist at any single point in time so the chances are that relatively few star ships are traversing the universe as I write this. This is assuming that the problem of special relativity effects can be overcome – a given for practical space travel.

This means that in all the tens of billions of galaxies with uncounted numbers of stars, these comparatively few spacecraft would need to 1) Discover that there was intelligent life on earth; 2) Have a reason to travel to the boondocks of our galaxy to see us; and 3) visit us without leaving a single piece of credible evidence of their coming here.

This goes beyond longshot and enters the realm of fantasy.

I would love to believe we are being visited on a daily basis by beings from another world. But common sense and the evidence doesn’t support that theory. Couple that with the quaisi-religious aspect to UFOology – that the aliens will come and save us from ourselves, clean up the planet, get rid of nukes, and bring peace and harmony to mankind – and what you’re left with is a bunch of silly people making equally silly claims that aren’t supported by the facts.

There is as much evidence that UFO’s are from the future or from another dimension or some place of which we are totally unaware as there is evidence that they are from another planet. And that evidence is zero. Until there is credible evidence to the contrary, UFO’s and alien visitation will fall under the rubric of faith and not of science.

By: Rick Moran at 8:11 am
9 Responses to “THE ALIENS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED”
  1. 1
    Increase Mather Said:
    8:50 am 

    Granted, this is a clear hoax. But before you dismiss alien visitation, go to Disclosure project.com. Over 200 witnesses with government connections have offered to testify before Congress about the reality of alien visitation. Over 800 pilots have reported encounters with…something.

    It is likely only a matter of time before this reality becomes objectified. Too many people taking too many grainey picture of saucers and triangles. Not likely that all of them are ours. Quite likely that some of those that aren’t ours are not hoaxes.

    Sooner or later someone is going to have evidence that cannot be denied.

    Scientists are increasingly agreeing that faster than light travel is possible.

    We’ll see, be patient.

  2. 2
    Ron Said:
    9:27 am 

    Stan Romanke (photographer of illegal alien from outer space?), Rozita Swinton (alleged telephone ‘child abuse’ complainant re Yearning For Zion Ranch?) both of Colorado Springs, CO: ground zero for lunatic hoaxers?

  3. 3
    DrKrbyLuv Said:
    10:34 am 

    The Drake equation (Dr. Frank Drake) helped ignite what has become an international fascination with finding and communicating with aliens from distant planets. The equation, developed in 1961 to estimate the number of technological civilizations that might exist in our universe.

    Even if you tweak the variables in the equation to be conservatively low, the calculation establishes that not only is there advanced life out there, but there is most likely millions of other civilized species in our universe.

    Most advanced countries had SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) institutes during the 60’s and 70’s largely based on the strength of the Drake equation. Now, I think the US SETI is the only one left. The problem, as you mentioned, is that even if intelligent does exist in our universe, it would most likely be so far away that even at light speed travel, the great distances are well beyond our reach (it might take billions of years to get there). The aliens would be confronted with the same problem in getting here.

    But don’t rule out the possibility of us being visited by petite aliens with big eyes too quick. Many scientists think quarks and black holes may be windows that could allow space travelers to quickly pop out many billions of light years away from where they entered. There is also the possibility of time travel.

    The problem here is that when you plug in the variable for the amount of time required for life forms to evolve to such an intelligent degree, the number of possible intelligent life forms is greatly reduced or eliminated.

    One has to suspect that if there are super advanced aliens visiting us, their mission would not include hanging outside Stan Romanke’s window in Denver.

    Doc:

    Hate to tell you but the Drake Equation has been pretty much discarded if only because “X” is irrelevant without some starting point or baseline. Not only that, we’ve discovered 50 or so more planets and what is becoming rapidly clear is that our own solar system is probably extremely rare – much more than one in a million. Most planetary systems contain one or more of these “hot Jupiters” where most of the accretion disk formed close to that sun – too close for liquid water to exist.

    ed.

  4. 4
    Michael B. Said:
    11:45 am 

    I can’t prove it, but I am almost CERTAIN that James Carville is an alien. No human could be that ugly.

  5. 5
    Spike W. Tyke Said:
    12:54 pm 

    Michael B. makes a good point, but I respectfully submit that the proverbial ‘smoking gun’, when it comes to E. T. living among us, is Tom “The Couch Monkey” Cruise.

    Spike

  6. 6
    edward cropper Said:
    2:36 pm 

    check my blog for a still photo of the alleged alien

  7. 7
    Joseph T Major Said:
    6:00 pm 

    The aliens have gotten nastier. When I was a little boy, they’d call for an end to nuclear weapons.

    Now they act like deranged proctologists.

  8. 8
    michael reynolds Said:
    5:27 am 

    The only real question here is: what effect will the alien invasion have on the election?

  9. 9
    Allen Said:
    2:08 pm 

    A number of years ago Carl Sagan wrote an article for Nature on why life doesn’t exist on Earth. His thesis was that using the technology available at the time (one of the planetary probes) we would conclude that there was no life on Earth and certainly no intelligent life.

    His first point: the oxygen content is too high. Oxygen is a highly corrosive element and is unlikely to be conducive to life. Think of a planet with a high chlorine content atmosphere, would you expect life to evolve there?

    Another of his points: The planet is highly geologically active. This mitigates the ability of life to start or hold on.

    It was a wonderful article and pointed out nicely that there might be life on other planets but we just wouldn’t recognize it.

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