Aliens will pay for the space wall because, I’m sure,
they don’t like what they see.
As more countries are flushed down the socio-political
sewer by malformed, cowardly, inadequate individuals who, somehow managed to
grab power, you have to guess that any aliens with telescopes stronger than
ours will be thinking, “shit – we have to keep these idiots away from us.” Do
you think they are looking at Assad, Trump, Mugabe, Duterte, Erdogan, Kim
(Jong-Un not Kardashian) and thinking – we should invite them to tea??? No.
NASA ‘found’ seven new exo-planets orbiting the dwarf
star TRAPPIST 1. Three are earth-like, potentially habitable worlds. My
youngest daughter and I watched the announcement in awe. She certainly felt it
was as significant as the 1969 “giant leap for mankind”.
What becomes immediately obvious is that doubts about
the potential for life out there, suddenly diminish. That isn’t to say that
little green humanoid entities are wobbling round on other worlds waiting for
Star Trek type visitors. But the idea that, within the reach of our current
telescopes and mathematical equations, there are already three exo-planets that
have the physical properties to support water and which also may have
earth-harmonious temperature, is huge. Out of the seven new worlds three are in
what NASA scientists refer to as The Goldilocks Zone – not too hot, not too
cold.
This is tremendously exciting for me for a different
reason. My new Sci fi – dystopian novella Zero
One Zero Two published last November is predicated on exactly this kind of
discovery. OK my book is also a monumental rant about how we’ve trashed our own
planet with a wee bit of romance, poetry and lots of death…But in my novella,
following earth’s destruction, a mission is sent to a distant solar system
which has never been visited but which scientists calculated using hi-tech telescopes
and mathematical data so they know it exists ‘in theory’.
My belief in our planet’s uniqueness has not altered.
I do not think for one moment that there is a parallel universe somewhere with
another ‘me’ on it clicking away on a keyboard freaking out about the dangerous
idiots who are trying to take humanity over a cliff. I do not believe there is
a similar ecosphere where the dominant species literally have the world at
their feet but choose to crap on it and on each other at every opportunity. Why
would they? Why do we?
Life does not necessarily mean sentient beings or flora
and fauna we would recognise as such. I know no more than the next person about
the formation of our world or the evolutionary steps that brought us to where
we are today. But clearly, those events were so extraordinary and extreme and
also not extreme (when it mattered) that replicating the process, statistically,
would be billions to one.
On the other hand…
One thing is for sure – if there is advanced life out there and it is observing us right
now there are many reasons intelligent Aliens may not want to make contact.
On discovering they’ve been discovered – who knows –
those aliens may, right now, be getting together in an inter-galactic alliance
to build a space wall to keep humans OUT.
The fact that aliens have not contacted us may be the proof
of their real intelligence.
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NASA
poster Zero One Zero Two
