Creatures and UFOs

Ever wonder at your creaturehood? No, not the creatures in your neighborhood, but yourself as a creature on this planet. And, for that matter, ever wonder about UFOs? It wasn’t all that long ago that UFOs (and that’s “U,” “F,” “Os” for anyone who might be wondering at this point) were a frequent visitor to our skies, or so it would seem. Reports were seen on our televisions, and in the newspapers, and, so far, if anything definitive was discovered about the flying objects behind these sightings, I, for one, am unaware of just what they might have been (or are, for that matter.) These “unidentified flying objects” remain unidentified--to me, if to no one else. Which is a bit bothersome to my brain this morning, if not every morning.

But, beginning with those creatures.... We are the top of the line here on our planet, if not everywhere in this universe of ours, and that is something. While some other animals may be said to use tools, their use seems to be limited to that of using a stick to get something to eat out of an ant or termite village--not like tools we utilize in our daily lives. Spoons, hammers, washing machines, automobiles, computers, and other things and materials, like explosives and gasoline, are not things we would find being used by any other of the creatures that share this earth with mankind. We are the tool makers and users on this planet. Why no others can claim this distinction may be disturbing to most people. The answer to this “why” that I would propose is it is “we” who are the reason for this observation, and a bloodthirsty “we,” at that.

As we were developing into the we that we are, other similar creatures may have been moving along the pathways we were travelling. Who can say why they are not living down the road from us today? We can say, I think, if we are willing to put ourselves in the places we once were in and do what we once did, that we actively eliminated our competitors. Those that are still with us pose no ultimate threat to mankind and his rule over the planet. Birds seem to do pretty well, in spite of having not developed a dependency of having and using tools. Other animals also do well--lions for their size as well as most other carnivores seem to do well in spite of not having tools like we use. Sharks in the sea seem to do quite well, as do the dolphins and whales. None of the animals that remain on planet earth could be said as having posed an existential threat to mankind--which is why they still are alive today (if not, exactly, alive and well.)

And yes, it is my contention that it is the “we,” and the bloodthirsty “we,” at that, that is the reason that most, if not all, of our major competitors of the past are no longer with us. We killed them.

Creatures on this earth are just that--creatures. We are the ruling ones, though, without question.

As to those UFO’s--what do you suppose that was all about? Well, considering the fact that the nearest planet to us that may be considered “earth-like” is light years away from us, how do you suppose those UFO’s got here? A good question, you say? Well, if you didn’t say this, I’d like to know what you were thinking about my question here. A light year being something travelling at the speed of light--the fastest thing I can think of--is something that might travel a long way in a year’s time, a very long way. Again, how did the UFO’s of the past get here?

I have no answers here. Maybe someone else does. Care to share?

And “answers” do not include “suppositions.”

OK?

Consider this: If we, the ruling creatures on our planet, are just that because any and all other creatures that may at one time have been considered our competitors were destroyed by their competition, us, why has the same thing not happened to us? Could it be the answer lies in the distance any other competitors might have to travel to get here to destroy us and eliminate us as competitors to those creatures? Well, if there is an answer, this might be it.

If we were to want to find out what might be on a similar planet to ours, a planet that we may have discovered light years away, how might we go there to “take a look?”

Lacking any other way, if we were to start blasting into space tons of the material we use to shoot our rockets into space and stockpile this material in an orbiting platform above us, could we not use this material to shoot a “living compartment” our “Livcom,” to one of those closest planets at one of our nearest stars to investigate what or who might be sending the UFOs to us? I guess we could. Assuming problems that would preclude this being done were solved--say we actually unified all countries of the world under a single political system--could this be done? Sure it could. If we all decided (or if our leaders decided, depending on what kind of unification we had,) i.e., decided this was in our best interests. And, were this the case, we could set up our “Livcom,” with an attachment to a freight train of fuel to use to send our crew to the star we were headed for. As we used up our fuel, we could cut the containers loose, one at a time, continuing our quest a little lighter while going a little faster. And, if we wanted to get back to old Sol, we would have to carry, at least twice as much fuel as we would have needed to get where we were going. Could continue on with the details here, but will let you use your own imaginations here (tired of typing.)

Arriving at our destination would allow us to be a “UFO” there. Unless, of course, they already had mastered space travel and didn’t particularly appreciate the competition. Guess they could put us in one of their zoos. Which, unless they determined breeding us might be useful to them, would be the end of that, in a matter of a few years, in any case.

Well, guess that is that. Like I said, if anyone were to wish to extrapolate this little bit of thinking, I guess that anyone could join the ranks of quite a few writers (T.C., you there?) who use this kind of thinking in their work. SciFi, anyone? Nothing wrong with that. Do you remember a book called “1984?” Well, I do (and you can Google that , if you wish) and at the time it was written, it was definitely a SciFi novel. Luckily, things did not play out the way its writer envisioned things playing out, and we are where we are today, instead of where we might have been. Thank goodness for that.  Like to try something different?  How about
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Tired of this? Well, I am. Thanks for reading--back soon?  I hope!

Ciao,

              Steve