The E.T.s are Coming! The E.T.s are Coming!

The E.T.s are Coming! The E.T.s are Coming!

Whatever could interstellar or inter-dimensional beings want?

Hypothesis have been made since about the date we humans first discovered nuclear fission. There were science fiction tales sensationalizing the nature and appearance of off-world creatures who come to earth to conquer us, enslave us and exploit our natural resources. 

Prior to suggesting alien civilizations are coming here mankind feared devils and demons, incubus and succubus, fallen angels, et al.  These latter entities were primarily inter dimensional rather than travelers. Such entities are relegated to the dim centuries before we understood some of the inter workings of the mind and what nature could concoct. Religions perpetuate the notion of such beings for the mere control of human behaviors.

So now the dominant theory is they are travelers from some distant planet. The Big Question is why would any species of beings muster the resources and invest their time coming to our speck of dust in the vast universe? 

In the 1950s and 60s they were  monsters here to eat our brains, fornicate with women, make zombies of us, and turn us into slave labor. How odd it is they wanted to do to us exactly what we do to each other on a daily basis. 

Not too much later we speculated they want our resources. Gold and diamonds were common lusts they had. Our water. They wanted our water. Our land. They needed a new place to live and thrive. 

Even today with our 8 billion people vast expanses of land is uninhabited.  If they could travel interstellar space surely they could comfortably live in the interior of Australia or the Saharan Desert. If they preferred cold, there is Greenland and the northern latitudes of Canada and Russia. Only if they behave like us would we need to be concerned with how they treated our planet. 

They would have traveled for generations in their spaceships maintaining a perfect ecological balance and environment. Why would they suddenly despoil the earth when they got here?

If they needed water our planet is not a great exploitable source. Comets and asteroids are composed of far more water than here on earth. Some of the moons of our neighboring planets have plenty of water and no one to complain about them taking it. 

Humans make for a poor source of manual labor. We are high maintenance and prone to resistance. Almost every high-tech and industrial process is easier handled with robotic machines. We are seeing the loss of labor requirements in every field of endeavor. 

Humans are not very good food sources. Pound for pound we are far too lean for industrial level meat production. Pigs, cows and chickens produce far more protein than do people. Furthermore the livestock doesn’t complain or mount resistance.  The procreate quickly and mature fast. Birth to mouth in a year or less. A good human it’s 15 to 20 years. 

Scientific exploration of our gnome is not really necessary. Why abduct an adult to probe the butt and drill into it eyes?  We find non-invasive non-destructive means of exploration with MRI, CAT, and other technological devices. 

If they need our DNA they could rob a sperm bank or grab some frozen embryos from a fertility clinic.  No need to abduct women and men. If they can genetically engineer an entire hybrid species bovine gestation would be a cakewalk. 

Now we are getting down to the last reason for visiting. Trade. They could exchange their resources for ours. What could they have brought with them we could use in exchange for something we have that they don’t. My supposition is: nothing. They could get anything we have for free if they scanned our Solar System and harvested/mined unclaimed sources. 

My concerns are that arriving aliens behave just like us. Sloppy careless exploitive authoritarians who take take take and leave their pollution behind. Mostly I am concerned they might be deeply devoted to a deity who demands everyone praise his name or be killed. There would be no negotiating with that sort of thing. They would ravish and destroy with no end in sight. We would be in a state of eternal war or submission. 

 

 

 

Yes,The Law is on Trumps Side, but...

Yes the Law is on Trump's side. Therein lies the problem. The laws have always been written and interpreted in terms of rational people who were placed in charge of our democracy. Alternatively, they were written by people who would derive value from the efforts of others and call it their own.

Never before has there been a scenario where United States elected officials were subverted by foreign influences and those people were the ones in power. It has always been the influence of domestic power that allowed the individuals vested with power to yield that power with little or no interference. While the Law may be on Trumps side, that doesn't mean the laws are good laws of just and equitable laws. Those laws can be changed.

Today we have a man who has wrested power from the former owners and is utilizing it for entirely new purposes. Not only does he represent a particular political party but he also has the backing of both the House and the Senate. His use of power has been commingled with his own enterprises for creation of personal and family wealth. People with whom he has business relations are standing in line for him to sign the papers to free them to exploit terrestrial resources and those of people that in need. 

Nothing he sends their way will get voted down and no bills sent to him will be vetoed. This entire scenario is the recipe for disaster. At some point in time he and Congress will differ on some positions but all the important and far reaching actions will already have been agreed upon. Food availability, housing, medical care, education are all a matter of law. So is who is allowed to have such things.

He is feeding the GOP controlled Congress all the items they have had on their agenda for decades. Education policy is trashed by a religious zealot until Congress formally disposed of the Department entirely. Similarly, the Attorney General, William Sessions, is a self-styled racist judge who also promised to foist his religious notions on minority groups under the guise of "restoring religious freedoms with such Act as titled: Restoring Religious Freedoms Act. Eliminating the Environmental Protection Administration is yet another action now or soon to be signed out of existence via signature on an Executive Order.

Once GOP is finished with Mr. Trump, they will kick him to the curb in favor of their more favored President, Mike Pence. He will be better suited to carry America into its century of Theocratic governance.

However, in the meantime, the Law is on the side of the now President, Trump. But that power of law is not absolute. The US has a Judicial Branch which was designed to keep the Legislature and Executive in check. Neither of them can run off willy-nilly doing just anything they want to. There remains that ever-present and highly regarded document, the Constitution, to be satisfied.

The founding father of this country saw the possibilities of a tyrant getting into power or for an incompetent to be elected by the folly of the people who were so taken astray. They built into the Constitution safeguard to right the wrong. It is time this country take a long and hard look at the road we are now traveling. It is time to stop and go a different way.