The ISS gets a visitor

My Dad is convinced that he and his crew saw a UFO. He said no object from our planet could hover directly in front of his plane and then be gone in a blink of the eye! Of course it could have been Kirk, Spock and the other lads from the Enterprise just having a bit of fun.

And has been for years.

Like Mork?

Seriously, would you make friends with our planet?

Hypothetically of course, suppose they were to land in North Korea, and make friends with the local president?

Friendly as in... they don't want to kill us, eat us, or destroy us like we write about in movies. Those would be very big deal-breakers on whether I would be happy about their visiting!

The thing is, that if there is one thing that we will share in common with aliens, it is the ability to survive.

There is not one animal on the planet, that has not survived by being the strongest.

Thus what we are hoping for is that the strongest aliens survived, and then became benevolent dictators, that insisted that their planet become friendly to each other.

The whole point of human existence is to "make a profit, one way or another".

Are they going to be any different?

I love cynicism; it can actually be a positive force. I'm cynical when it comes to the colonies over here. I've said in the past that the U.S. is the most uncivilised civilised country in the world, and I still believe that.

I agree, but that sounds a bit Pythonesque to me.

But, they could probably defend themselves!

I have a couple of theories.

With all of the stories of UFOs over the years, there HAS to be more going on than what we are led to believe. Not everyone is lying. Plus, there are other weird occurrences over time. I think I read somewhere that the Mayans had drawings of airplanes and of what looked like "aliens" landing. After the whole Roswell incident all of the sudden we had this crazy technology.

I figure it is one of two things. The first is that we are, in fact, in contact with aliens and they share their technologies with us. Why we are not under attack... who knows. But it could be possible they are living among us with some sort of way to disguise themselves as human and live among us. Or maybe they ARE human. Who knows.

Another theory is time travel. Perhaps it is just us from the future visiting our past selves and giving us technology.

Or maybe it's nothing. You never know. I think it is something.

As for intelligent life in the universe, I think there most definitely is. Some theorists suggest that intelligent life such as ours is either extremely rare, or when it does happen like ours does we end up killing ourselves. I disagree because they are basing it on our own human tendencies.

On our planet, survival of the fittest works. But, that is also a part of our genetic make-up. Some say that it is necessary for a species to survive, but what if it isn't, and the reality is that peaceful civilizations make it further? If this is the case, then it would make sense that other intelligent life hasn't contacted us-why would they? If they contacted us and shared too much information with us, we would use it against them because we are naturally destructive. So, intelligent species just wants to leave us alone.

Another argument against intelligent life is that they would have contacted us by now, but my first argument is one reason why they wouldn't. Also, the universe is HUGE. Even if these beings have perfected intergalactic travel, who is to say they found us? I mean, we are not even comparable to the smallest island on earth, so it's possible that they haven't even found us.

As for the UFO in the ISS? Yeah, it probably was a weather balloon.

Have you seen K-Pax?

That will inspire you.

The book is just as good.

I just pulled it up and Jeff Bridges stars in the film. That alone perked my interest.