A letter from Gregory to the Babelonians.
On the first Tuesday of every month the Babelers will be hosting a Babeled On virtual sit-down where the founding fathers ruminate over a topic of interest. The topic of my choosing was distributed via email and all responses were only seen by myself until now in order to maintain the integrity of the discussion as well as keep all thoughts in a vacuum.
At the end of this week, NASA will launch the Kepler telescope and the objective is to seek out other distant Earth-like planets. It was with this information that I chose the topic: Aliens From Outer Space.
Jack Gamble
I for one am sick and tired of Aliens from Outer Space coming all up in here with their fancy laser beams and pimped out speeder bikes. Who do they think they are?
Hey you, Mr. I’m so cool cause I’m from another planet, if you can master interplanetary travel and reach speeds faster than light then maybe you wouldn’t mind paying your stinking taxes!
If your strong enough to pull the ears of a Gundark then maybe you wouldn’t mind getting a job and doing some manual labor.
I don’t care if you can make the Kessel Run in five parsecs, when you’re in my town you can obey the posted speed limits!
These Aliens are criminals. Why just the other day an Alien was arrested in Amarillo, Texas for robbing a liquor store and it turns out the he already had death warrants in five systems!
I am in favor of building a wall around our planet to keep these Aliens from Outer Space on their side of the cosmos.
Oh yea, one more thing, stop sucking our brains.
Andrew Blanco
Aliens have to exist. Otherwise there is no explanation for why the Spaniards are such a superior people.
Jeff Ruemeli
Aliens from outer space exist. Well life in outer space exists. Did you know there are more stars in the universe as there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the world? Wild. And did you know most of those stars have planets orbiting them? Super wild. However given our present viewing devices we cannot yet see the small rocky inner planets of alien solar systems. This is because rocky planets are made of heavy elements which are pulled closer to the star and the light from the star blocks our view of said planets. We only know they exist due to the wobble of the star as it’s pulled by its child planets revolution. Life, as we know it, would most likely be found on the rocky inner planets due to the heat from the sun and terrafirma.
That’s how our life exists on earth. Although on earth, we find life wherever we think no life can exist. Such as Death Vally, the far polar regions, the bottom of the sea, sulfur vents, deep in caves, the list goes on. So our ideas of life become increasingly altered as we discover more and more on our mother planet. Not all life on earth is carbon based. So when looking to space life is not to be anything of what we can expect or imagine. To make matters even more intense stars are millions even billions of light years away. To look upon them is to look deep into the past. Some stars are so old (or that far) that we are looking at something that was there before the creation of the earth. So life might be on another planet but we are totally unable to see it or conceive it. So there are an inconceivable amount of possible worlds, with possible life that we have just started to realize is as strange as we can imagine and they are in another part of time that we can’t see.
Life’s a bitch ain’t it?
Jason Morgan
Contrary to Star Trekkian and Star Warsian alien premises, alien life on other worlds will more often than not be simplistic, microscopic organisms. The conditions for that type of life can be met in a wider variety of environmental conditions and therefore have a higher probability of existence on many rock planets around the universe. There may indeed be higher forms of life on worlds in the universe given the incomprehensible amount of possible planets that could provide the proper environmental conditions.
As you may have noticed, I do not even entertain the notion that life may only exist on Earth. That is simply illogical when given the statistical probability of the proper elements and environment being present somewhere else in the universe. There are more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand in every beach on Earth, and each galaxy safely represents several hundred million stars, each with the possibility of having a planet capable of supporting life orbiting it.
Greg Molyneux
No question I’m a believer. But I am a believer with particular stipulations. I vehemently refuse to accept they are little green men with gargantuan oblong heads and obsidian colored football shaped eyes. Instead they are all modern clones of Lynda Carter circa 1976 (Wonder Woman). It is clear, from my consultations with the Pythia that these Aliens from Outer Space are desperately seeking underachieving male bloggers hailing from a marble colored planet basking in the light of a middling sun, to sire the next generation of their waning race.
Let it be clear that I am willingly putting myself up for abduction. With simple e-mail correspondence or a quick text to my Storm I will eagerly reveal the coordinates of my place of origin and begin the preparations for becoming an interstellar Abraham. New slippers are on order and my best smoking jacket has been recently pressed. I know this means that I have to leave the unrivaled excitement of my current life behind, but I am willing to make this sacrifice for the betterment of my mankind mankind.
Next Month. . .
Tag, you’re it, Man Overboard.
5 Comments
I personally oversaw the counting of every grain of sand on every beach of Earth and based on my data, I find your assertation of star quantity fundamentally flawed.
I do accept the fact that the task of counting all the grains of sand on all of earth’s beaches is an impossible task. This statement was only meant as a way of wrapping one’s head around quite a large number. I do apologize for my bold claim. I will however note that scientists (with PhD’s) have used this claim in communicating this same idea. Two wrongs might not make a right but that is a very educated wrong claim.
Whether true or not, it is often the go-to analogy used.
Would it not be a more profound statement to declare the stars are greater in number than even Colt Forty Fineberg’s nicknames?
Now that is an association that we can all wrap our heads around!