Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for April 14, 2022

Did Drake have anything to say about that?

Forget intergalactic. The distances are too great. Even intragalactic is close to impossible. When the nearest star to us, in a galaxy that spans about 100,000 light years in a huge, spinning spiral, is 200 light years away, or 70 light years. The distances are so enormous that to traverse them with any sort of purpose or communications would take so long it would render the whole operation pointless. Unless there exists a being somewhere in the vastness of the universe that develops the capacity to exploit quantum physics in order to literally leap from one point in the galaxy to another, I cannot see how space travel and contact with beings from another world is going to occur. This should not be construed as an argument for not spending money on space exploration. Of course we should. The knowledge gained through the research done to achieve the things NASA, the ESA, the Soviets/Russians, and others have achieved, has yielded enormous benefit to humanity.

Don’t question his logic. After all, “Father Knows Best.”

smart…

The only aliens we’re visited by are illegal.

Honey I shrunk our daughter.

They didn’t bring masks and didn’t have time for the immunizations to take effect. They were afraid of ending up like H.G. Well’s Martian invaders.

I wouldn’t recommend it, either. Only 1 star on Yelp!

Send them to my neighborhood, that’ll run them off!

We are a petri dish to them. The observations reveal how a species can to do it all wrong and ruin the planet that is their home and their only means of survival.

don’t worry about it, we are not going to be here for too much longer!

They come for laughs….

That’s my theory also. They fly by, have a look and quickly determine we’re not ready for prime time.

An species smart enough to travel here, is smart enough not to.

They have dilithium crystals.