An Open Letter To All Alien Life Forms

Some of you humans may recall various stories and snippets that ran recently about former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, who has been saying for years that aliens in fact do exist. The Discovery Channel had a good chat with him on their blogs recently. Or perhaps you’ve seen the interview with rocket scientist David Adair, who built a fusion containment engine at the age of seventeen and solved math equations with Stephen Hawking.

Basically, a growing number of reputable scientists, pilots and astronauts are saying that the US government has been hiding knowledge of extraterrestrial life for decades. To many, this alleged cover up will come as no surprise. However, the real tragedy is that if indeed there has been a cover up to hide knowledge of beings from other planets, it means that we’ve been missing out on the opportunity to chat over a cup of coffee or knock back a bevy with our interstellar brethren, and to ultimately engage our unearthly visitors in a healthy, earthy debate about society, politics, or perhaps even universal health care.

[the latter of which may coincidentally need to be renamed as pre-existing intergalactic copyrights on the phrase universal health care may prevent its use here on planet earth. We’ll need to check with the intergalactic copyright office and make sure we aren’t infringing on any already-registered, interstellar rights which subsequently may have already levied upon us some hefty planetary penalties]

But back to my point and query: why should the government get to hog all the face time with our so-not-new-by-about-fifty-years intergalactic friends?

I don’t know about you, but I for one would welcome the chance to get together for a friendly visit with beings from distant solar systems we don’t even know about yet; not to bombard them with all the esoteric questions they must get tired of hearing from all the other planets they meet for the first time mind you, but instead invite them over for a barbeque or dinner party, to share photos from our vacations or play a game of scrabble, and to inquisitively ask (politely probe if you will) for advice on how to help humanity, like how to help feed the hungry, improve living conditions, cope with weapons/war, and in general, advice on how we can relieve suffering and help our civilization evolve...

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