EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND UFOS
Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not.
Either thought is frightening.
-ARTHUR C. CLARKE
A gargantuan spaceship, stretching miles across, looms directly over
Los Angeles, filling up the entire sky and ominously darkening the
entire city. All over the world, saucer-shaped fortresses position themselves over the major cities of the world. Hundreds of jubilant spectators, wishing to welcome the beings from another planet to L.A., gather
on top of a skyscraper to reach out to their celestial guests.
After days of hovering silently over L.A., the spaceship's belly
slowly opens up. A searing blast of laser light shoots out, incinerating
the skyscraper, unleashing a tidal wave of destruction that rolls across
the entire city, reducing it to burned rubble within seconds.
In the movie Independence Day aliens represent our deepest fears.
In the movie E.T.we project onto aliens our own dreams and fantasies.
Throughout history people have been fascinated by the thought of
alien creatures that inhabit other worlds. As far back as 1611, in his
treatise Somnium, the astronomer Johannes Kepler, using the best scientific knowledge of the time, speculated about a trip to the moon during which one might encounter strange aliens, plants, and animals.
But science and religion often collide on the subject of life in space,
sometimes with tragic results.
Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not.
Either thought is frightening.
-ARTHUR C. CLARKE
A gargantuan spaceship, stretching miles across, looms directly over
Los Angeles, filling up the entire sky and ominously darkening the
entire city. All over the world, saucer-shaped fortresses position themselves over the major cities of the world. Hundreds of jubilant spectators, wishing to welcome the beings from another planet to L.A., gather
on top of a skyscraper to reach out to their celestial guests.
After days of hovering silently over L.A., the spaceship's belly
slowly opens up. A searing blast of laser light shoots out, incinerating
the skyscraper, unleashing a tidal wave of destruction that rolls across
the entire city, reducing it to burned rubble within seconds.
In the movie Independence Day aliens represent our deepest fears.
In the movie E.T.we project onto aliens our own dreams and fantasies.
Throughout history people have been fascinated by the thought of
alien creatures that inhabit other worlds. As far back as 1611, in his
treatise Somnium, the astronomer Johannes Kepler, using the best scientific knowledge of the time, speculated about a trip to the moon during which one might encounter strange aliens, plants, and animals.
But science and religion often collide on the subject of life in space,
sometimes with tragic results.