Alien abductions and anal probes
Alien abductions: They might not happen, they might be a figment of someone’s imagination, but I feel that the chances are that they actually do happen.
Here’s why…
The Drake Equation is a mathematical principal that allows us to reasonably deduce just how many space-faring alien civilizations are actually out there in the Milky Way galaxy… it works like this ….
Take the number of stars in the galaxy, and divide that by the chance that any given star is likely to have a planetary system (best scientific guess). Divide this by the chance that planets in those systems are ecologically suitable for life forms to evolve. Divide this by the chance that life actually does evolve on these planets…. and so on, you get the idea. If you want to look at the actual equation, go here…. http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html
Anyway, the equation shows us that there are almost certainly thousands of civilizations in the galaxy looking up at the stars just like us, wondering if we really are out there somewhere.
Taking this in to account, also remembering that our own star system is only a baby, it’s quite likely that our civilization has already been discovered by another. The next question is “why aren’t they walking among us?” Think about it – if we where the ones who discovered another civilization, would we just land in the middle of their towns and cities and start walking around? NO! We would study them, investigate them, and very likely leave them alone to develop on their own without bothering them too much.
So I think it’s very likely that we are visited regularly by scientists, xeno-biologists and the like, and yes, they most likely often take people against their will to be analyzed and experimented on just as we often abduct animals from their natural habitat. Remember, if they are capable of traveling the distances between the stars, they are most definitely going to be intelligent and advanced enough to avoid detection.
…but why, in all good reason, would they fly billions of miles across the cold gulf of space just to shove a probe up someone’s ass? The advent of the anal probe ethos disturbs me – why probe when you could use your advanced technology to scan? Either someone out there has got some deep seated secret desire to be probed (by aliens or otherwise) and made the whole thing up, or the aliens actually enjoy doing it.
I find the latter to be a disturbing thought – is the Earth nothing more that an interplanetary bitch for bands of marauding alien gang-bangers?
You decide.
(This is a re-post of an article I wrote some time ago for another blog)
August 29th, 2010 at 2:05 pm -
I wasn’t aware of some of the info that you mentioned so I want to just say thank you.
August 31st, 2010 at 1:22 pm -
Who would have think about this.
September 4th, 2010 at 10:05 pm -
It’s shocking how many info and news come out on a hourly basis.