Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 22, 2022

Yeah, Hawking told us that already.

Let them come. We’ll give them the plague.

It’s a cookbook!

Whatever you do, don’t accept the blankets or any other trinkets being offered as gifts. Before you know it, you will have sold Manhattan to the aliens.

Hmm. Maybe not such a bad idea.

Many welcomed the Europeans. They no longer had to send their children to the Aztecs to be human sacrifices. That’s worth something.

The alien astronaut theorists was always afraid of this.

OK, but how do you know they’re like us until you’ve made contact with them?

we will have destroyed the planet and its resources long before they get here, it seems.

Perhaps all we hear is crickets is because the crickets are too loud, or we don’t think of crickets as intelligent. Try tuning your TV to gamma ray frequencies.

Oh No! Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner? No No To Dinner.

Cal Zapata: [hyperventilating] I told them that something like this would happen, that if something did find us, it would be like Columbus and the Indians, or the Incas and the Conquistadors, and they said, “Oh, no, they’ll be sweet…” ~ From the Movie “Battleship”

They’re only coming here because they already contaminated their home planet??

“Aw, come on, think of the rousing conversations we could have… About politics, religion, um… Yeah, just forget it…”

I remember an episode of the original Star Trek when Kirk, Spock and McCoy find themselves on a parallel planet, but ruled by the Roman Empire. Toward the end, they find out that this planet even had a Jesus whose message was just now being promulgated. The episode was called Bread and Circuses.

So many say hey, we can’t judge Columbus, or the Conquistadors or the Colonials by today’s standards.

I always want to know why not? When was it ever right to enslave and subjugate other people? Never.

And don’t give me that, “The Aztecs, the Inca and the Mayans were all just as bad” nonsense. Yes, they were. Still doesn’t make it right what was done to them. What we are STILL today doing to them.

Maybe they’ll put up a classy building with this cool doorway you walk through as you board their ship—in chains, never to return.

Ever give any thought that if they are just like, they wouldn’t want to come here either.

Yeah, that went well.

Rod Serling refers to a visiting alien as a Christopher Columbus in the old “Twilight Zone” episode “To Serve Man”. Things follow accordingly.

“Under no circumstances go to P4C-970” Anyone?