JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 29, 2016

Truthfully, we don’t know if any form of life exists elsewhere. Just having a planet that can support life isn’t enough. We still don’t know how life on Earth began, or how to duplicate it. The process may be a trillion-trillion to one shot, or even rarer.

The best evidence that there is highly intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe is that they DON’T visit us.

Klaatu barada nikto.

Alien life is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine"

The reality of it is that we are isolated on the only planet in our Solar system that can support “life as we know it”. With all the crap going on here on Earth, WHO would want to visit??

First, we would try to capture it (if we could), dissect it, and use whatever we discover to our advantage against each other. This fact makes us planetary predators. We are too scared and basically vulnerable ( 3 pounds of grey matter keeps us at the top of the food chain) to deal with something, anything different or deemed more or as intelligent from space. We are even scared of the differences within our own species and that fear has caused us to do egregious inhumane things to each other. I say, THANK GOD we ARE alone. And speaking of God, how would we deal with six winged Seraphim’s and Cherubim’s known as “the burning ones”??

It is as it should be. We are too small minded, too critical, too violent, too scared, too selfish, too inhumane to deal with it. And the very small population within this large nebulous of septic existence would not wield enough voice to stop us from trying to hurt a galactic visitor. Jus sayin…..so don’t hate.

The truth is out there.

People still aren’t ready to accept the truth. Fact is, the human race is NOT native to this planet. Like the Asian Carp in the Mississippi River, we are an invasive species introduced to this planet by the authorities of our home planet. The planet Earth was used as a penal colony, much the same as Austria was used by Great Britain between 1780-1868*. The penal colony on Earth, however, was used exclusively to isolate the criminally insane from the home planet. We, who call ourselves the human race, are the descendants of those prisoners stranded here. This is why the human race has violent tendencies. This explains why mankind can not be expected to collectively do the right thing when it comes to subjects like global warming. This is why we allow ourselves to be governed by “politicians”. We, as a race, are collectively insane. The authorities of our home world occasionally heck up on us to make sure that we are not a threat to escape our confinement to this planet. That is why there are UFO’s. Should they ever decide that we are capable of leaving this planet and infesting the galaxy outside our solar system, they will take action to eliminate that possibility. That is why we must dismantle the space program and discontinue NASA.. Otherwise we will doom ourselves to a fate far worse than global warming. See, I told you that you weren’t ready to accept the truth!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_colony

intelligent life almost certainly exists elsewhere, given how our galaxy alone has 100 billion stars in it and from what’s been observed by Kepler most of them have planets and as many as 1 in 25 would host at least one planet in the habitable zone. That being said there is no reason to believe those weird lights you see in the sky have to be alien space craft when there are dozens of more likely things.

Susan SchroederIt says nothing about here, just that there are heavens and earth. Stop trying to limit God. As astronomer Harlow Shapley said, “It depends on how great a God you believe in.”

Joe’s last comment reminds me of that old joke about how aliens knew there weren’t intelligent life on Earth…because they landed in Washington, DC!

Judging by the current crop of lawmakers in DC who can argue with that logic