Now that all that "God" stuff that screwed up the election is out of the way, back to the important stuff: UFOs. I won't be watching Peter Jennings' UFO "news" special tonight, so please write and let me know if he comes up with anything that challenges my current view on alien travel to our planet.
The closest star to our sun is 4.22 light years away. Even if you assume that orbiting that particular star is a planet that houses intelligent life, Joe Alien is going to have to travel 5,865,696,000,000 a year for more than four straight years to get here. (Keep in mind, too, that Joe's going to head in our direction very deliberately, as space travel gives you 360 degrees of travel opportunity.)
In short, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, if Joe Alien is that intelligent that he knows we're here and can make the trip ... why would he bother? To meet Peter Jennings?
The closest star to our sun is 4.22 light years away. Even if you assume that orbiting that particular star is a planet that houses intelligent life, Joe Alien is going to have to travel 5,865,696,000,000 a year for more than four straight years to get here. (Keep in mind, too, that Joe's going to head in our direction very deliberately, as space travel gives you 360 degrees of travel opportunity.)
In short, to paraphrase Groucho Marx, if Joe Alien is that intelligent that he knows we're here and can make the trip ... why would he bother? To meet Peter Jennings?
1 Comments:
If the alien randomly made it to earth, why not randomly choose peter jennings? relatively speaking, seems like 1;4,000,000,000 are pretty good odds, comparied to the odds in lightyears and 360 degrees.
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