Aliens. The reason this post is late. The cause of my foot
hurting. The origin of gayness. The root of most conspiracy theories. All
joking aside, my foot has started
hurting out of nowhere, aliens must have done something then wiped my memory,
not that I had a very good one in the first place.
As I write this I am looking at the twitter feed of the
second man made probe to land on mars, if there is sentient life in this solar
system realistically we would have found it by now. However statistically
speaking there probably are aliens somewhere in the universe, it’s scarily big.
To use a simple comparison, I know that somewhere in my bedroom is the partner
to the sock I am holding. I just don’t have the technology or motivation to
find it. Because chances are aliens will either be below us on the development
scale, in which case we’d exploit them for resources, which I am morally
against. Don’t try to bullshit me about how kind and loving the human race is,
the weak get exploited, it’s how society works. The might be more intelligent
than us with some pretty spiffy weapons, in which case we get exploited,
another non desirable outcome. The last option is they are of the same intelligence,
with a planet equally under threat from themselves, in which case we invariably
go to war.
The only nice option here is we find a nice dead race
somewhere and plunder their home planet of useful minerals with minimal threat to
us. Space exploration is still useful though, many new inventions, such as
crisp packets, have been created in an attempt to land a man on the moon. Asteroids
and meteors can be mined for minerals, there’s a company recently set up to do
just that. Satellites are really cool for spying on people, even if they have
to adjust measurements for relativity (that’s why your sat navs are slow
buggers).
Something that worries me is theoretically there could be
another habitable earth like planet also orbiting the sun, directly opposite
us, at the moment we have literally no technology capable of confirming or
denying this theory, although it is a little farfetched. There could be another
you sitting in front of a computer screen reading homojournal less than a few
light years away.
Todostrieb
