Hitchhiker wrote:

Here's my two-pence: 1) UFO's / Aliens are two different topics most of the time. 2) Aliens – It’s unlikely we’re alone (“that would be an awful waste of space!” – Film: Contact) 3) 90% of sightings on Earth are man made – there’s no doubt governments play with alien technology they find. 4) Nobody is interested in Alien stuff anymore; X-Files blew all that up so much it deflated. 5) We should be; it’s a great topic. 6) We’ll confirm life existed on other planets soon (20+ years? Just a guess but I’ll put good money on it ) I will put good money on it too because I am sure of that. 18+ years have left, hehe. 7) People still seem to think Alien cultures would fly down here to ‘invade’ our planet. Hmm – anybody seen the size of the universe lately, kinda rules out the hassle needed to do that when you’ve got a billion++ other clean ones (planets) to choose from. Humanity suffer from megalomania, so how would it be possible to think that our planet is not the only one all aliens would like to get for themselves? Nonsense! We are the most interesting part of the Universe, and of course our resources! (As if alines didn't have more advanced sources of energy, haha.) 8) They clearly know we exist and they clearly still treat this place as a minor tourist attraction – perhaps their scientists monitor certain things from time to time. Or some of them look after humans in order not to let us do something that may destroy the planet. For all humans' "intellect", it is quite possible. I mean, sometimes people remind me of children playing with fire and not understanding what they are doing. An adult's hand is pretty necessary in such cases. 9) I’d passively monitor our immune systems and general working physiology; since THAT’s a great technology you wouldn’t want to lose. 10) Aliens are people too.. jeje Hehe 11) I’m sure there’s an order to all this; with potentially millions of species roaming around there must be some form of ‘policing’ of it. I am sure of that as well. Besides, everything is similar in the world. If people do have some "policing" (or at least attempts to provide it), aliens do have it too. 12) I imagine planets like our own are pretty much left alone till they develop to a point that would be conducive to experiencing a greater understanding. Agree. 13) Popping down right now would throw millions of humans into a state of panic. Oh, that's beyond any doubt. We haven’t stop whining and fighting about religion, power and land yet – aren’t we an attractive bunch!? We are just like little children playing in a sand-box and quarreling on a shovel while making our sand-structures. Do we really pretend to posses reason?  Heh, why did people ever decide they possesed reason. I wouldn’t bother with this planet yet – just leave it to sort itself out and hopefully not too many more people will be blown up. 14) We’re 7 billion idiots fighting with each other – pretending there’s this huge amount of difference amongst us. There isn’t, we’re all small, petty and currently not very interesting. That's true, unfortunately. On the other hand, I think we are interesting at least because of the fact we exist. And it is not so insignificant. It’ll probably take another 200 years to come close to sorting out this cr@p (sorry)

I agree with the most you have said, Hitch.

MrPedantic wrote:

And I'm still not sure why alien spacecraft should need lights on the outside. Is the traffic that bad out there?