I'm not saying it's aliens, but...

In the dark ages when the unexplained happened the saying would have been,
"I'm not saying it's demons, but..."

During the industrial revolution when the unexplained happened the saying would
have been, "I'm not saying it's robits, but..." (I always imagine people of
this time pronouncing robots as "robits").

Today the saying is "I'm not saying it's aliens, but..."

Maybe we're getting a little closer to reality in this regard.  At least it
isn't against scientific knowledge that aliens are quite likely to exist, even
"intelligent" aliens.  But I don't know if we're being visited by aliens, if
we are I doubt they're here to help.

I, inadvertently, upset my wife the other day.  The conversation started
about all of the fireballs we've been seeing.  In this context "Fireball" is
a catch-all term for meteors, meteorites, or anything else burning up in the
atmosphere bright enough to be seen, and at least on 3/17, heard as a loud
explosion which most people thought was a bomb (myself included).

There has been more than the average number of fireballs visible over the
midwest throughout March, but not just midwest, everywhere.  However this
site only tracks US occurances: https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/skyfalls

Is it debris from an asteroid that got broken up by Jupiter's gravity and then
flew too close to Earth's gravity well?  Is it Musk's satellites falling out
of the sky?  Is it Iran retaliating against our illegal, unnecessary, and
reckless acts of terrorism against them?  Do they have some sort of meteor
nudging technology? (probably not).  Or is it aliens?

So, let's assume it's aliens.  Because my wife likes to go there.  Why?  Well,
even though she has broken free from the shackles of religion she still seems
to have the sense that something, somewhere, out there, is looking down on us
and has a plan and will come save us.  I don't.  I shed that emotional crutch
a long time ago.  I wish I had it sometimes but I don't.  I think she still
uses that crutch but just changed the names.  Instead of God it's Aliens.
Much like Philip K. Dick used VALIS instead of God, but still attributed all
of the Chritian folklore to this entity.

The thing I said that upset her was that if there was aliens and they were here
then I doubt they're on our side.  I doubt they're here to save us.  If they
were why are they not intervening to stop the craziness that's going on right
now?  If anything the presence of malicous aliens would serve to explain how
things have got so out of control and how we somehow miraculously managed to
zoom past each and every off-ramp on this highway to doom.  It does feel as if
something with some powers beyond what we think regular humans are capable of
(such as timeline manuipulation, see my previous phlog on this), is taking
steps to push us in this direction.

Perhaps aliens want us to kill ourselves off so that they can have this world
for their own.  It feels more like the aliens, if there are any here, are like
Cortez landing in South America and we are the Inca.  Cortez ain't here to
save us Inca.

I shall have to keep these thoughts away from my wife because she needs some
hope and outside of self-delusion there isn't much to be had.
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