F.r.i.e.n.d.s.

Namaste, losers (This is going to be a brief one) Question: How many times have you thought of meeting or seeing a friend from another star system? Answer: A lot. And let me explain that why can't we ever encounter an 'Alien' invasion or see a U.F.O. in the sky above you. There is a whole shebang of movies telling about alien invasions, abductions, and massacres caused by extraterrestrial organisms. Namely: Independence day, Aliens in the attic, Jack Reacher, Oblivion, The Matrix, Alien vs Predator, Koi Mil Gaya, Krrish, Krrish3, The Fourth Kind, PK, etc. There are also many many rumors and theories about USA hiding evidences of sightings of spaceships and crop field marks like these:

In area 51 somewhere along the coastline. Well, a lot of it is trash talk. And I'm not saying this just for the sake of saying. I have compelling arguments about why can't we have "friends" from outer space which you may find pretty reasonable. There are four very settling and kind of scary ideas about us having visited by extraterrestrial life in the past. So here goes. One: "We are not smart enough."

A lot of you people who are enthusiastic about scientific advancements may think otherwise to the above statement. We have state of the art weaponry(sad), big efficient machines, skyscrapers, The Hubble Space Telescope(the highest order of human advancement. Period.) and of course, Artificial intelligence, (which deserves a separate article) and smartphones. Apart from machines, we have advancement in biology, chemistry mathematics and physics, addressed in previous articles, which still surprise our intellect. But do you think it's enough to register ourselves among 'intelligent' civilisations? Think about this; what is the difference between our DNA and a Gorilla's DNA? About 2%. We are said to be evolved through them, still, the biggest advancement we have in The Hubble Space telescope and that a Gorilla has is a technique to speak in sign language or stack up blocks, this is what our toddlers do. And that difference is just for 2% of DNA. Let alone other life forms which are not originated from Earth. Maybe their DNA is completely different from ours and they are so smart that their toddlers solve the equations of quantum mechanics and stick them on their fridge. The point of this argument is that even if there was any more evolved life than us out there, we would not be an asset to them. Even if they do invade us, they will have nothing to take. (except for some tape cassettes with voices of a pretty girl.) We will prove to be bad and useless slaves.

Two: "They are not smart enough." And why is that is because maybe it's the other way around as the above mentioned argument. That is, we are way more advanced than them and they are going through the phase of evolution where they are still living in water or whatever 'life soup' they were born in. Or maybe if they have developed technology, they still can't reach us, I'll tell you why. Many recent studies about exoplanets have proved that there are no advanced living life forms whatsoever in the neighborhood of our sun. And we have not been able look farther than that because we're still evolving. Now, consider this: if there was actually a planet where advanced life resides, they would be a lot more than a million light years away from us or even 2000 light years away from us. In either scenario, if they try to look through their telescopes, they will see an Earth million years ago. Or an Earth when Jesus had just set foot on Earth and he was a millennial. Those organisms will never find anything worth visiting us. So the wall between us and Jadoo-like aliens still remains erected.

Three: (this one is hilarious;) The aliens landed in time for a comic convention. (A place where new and old all kinds of superheroes come once a year and sign autographs for the audience; everyone is dressed like a character so there is no way to tell.). Maybe they still are with us. But that idea is way too lame to accept as it just doesn't hold any purpose worth discussing. Four: (The most reasonable) We ourselves are the very aliens we are talking about. Here's how. Picture this: There is a very very advanced civilisation out there who didn't know about how their own life evolved to what it is now.(Just like we have a map of evolution as given by Charles Darwin in his book 'On the Origin of Species'). So, they loaded their DNA in a space probe, and launched it to the first planet they found which is habitable for their life. And they are still monitoring us through extra dimensions which maks it easier to observe every single detail. So, in a way, we are destined to become what we are questioning right now.

Now, what do we draw from this set of ideas? Apparently nothing. Because it is just not possible for us to check for extraterrestrial life out there. Yet. But we know one thing for sure, and that is, whatever it may be, we will be ready to face it and we can do nothing but wait to see what the universe and our so-called parents have in store for us. Later.