Canadutch
Last night I was lying in bed after putting down my book and I got to thinking about aliens.
I often think of weird shit before falling asleep and last night was no different.
I was wondering why we always assume that if aliens exist that they are these seriously futuristic smartypantses with a brain twice as big as ours and technology light years ahead of us. Why, in movies, are they always smarter and wanting to dissect or inseminate us?
If there is life out there, isn’t it just as possible that they are foot long slugs that can’t travel the length of themselves in five minutes, let alone across the galaxy?
Isn’t it possible that they are really stupid animal like creatures that sit around picking their noses all day, if they even HAVE noses?
I think we give aliens far too much credit… if they exist, I mean.
Movies only romanticize about how aliens are. Since no one can possibly know what life is like on other planets, we have to make it up. Then we just make it what we want it to be. That’s all.
I’m sure there is life in the universe. But only hollywood is saying they are futuristic life forms with technology far greater than ours.
But I see your point. Good point. :)
Yes, but such stupid, backward, and sluglike aliens would never reach our planet to interact with us, hence no movies about them. The aliens are always depicted as smarter and more advanced when they come to us
You think too much. :P
True, I’ve often thought about that too, especially after seeing the movie A Bug’s Life.
I mean how do we know we’re not the ants to someone elses world? That thunder isn’t some much bigger being dropping something or sitting down… or farting!
Or that tornados aren’t just them wiggling something around to make our atmosphere wonky so they can show their friends how we scurry and die.
We could be the pocket lint of some enormous dude and our entire life could be only one day in his lifetime.
The world is such a mystery to me.
True. But, what if aliens are huge? My Theory is that the earth and sun are like a tiny Electron, or cell or whatever, which would be inside the finger nail of a huge animal unaware of the multitude of life he carries around with him.
He’s probably picking his nose with that finger right now.