Shawn L. Bird

I don’t want to say I told you so, but when none other than brilliant physicist Stephen Hawkings says something I’ve been saying for years, well, “I TOLD YOU SO!” Remember back in the 70s when Voyager headed off with drawings of humans, copies of our music and a map to find Earth? At the time, I wondered whether it was a good idea to draw the attention of some potentially evil alien race that we’re out here.

Remember what happened in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (aka Star Trick: the Motionless Picture) when V’ger (aka Voyager) came back to our solar system hauling back all the wisdom of the universe in its hunt for The Creator? It was BAD! Back as far as War of the Worlds in the 30s people have known that an alien invasion is not likely to be a good thing. Hawking was right, it didn’t go well for any of the indigenous populations anywhere on Earth to welcome aliens to their places, why would we want to invite aliens to Earth itself?

My only consolation is that by the time aliens arrive, the human population will probably be extinct.