Gomer phone home

I am really getting interested in this whole "Alien" thing recently. No, not the illegal types that shingled your roof last summer, but the kind from space. Ever since my encounter with the strange lights, I tend to be giving more credence to the idea of ET. I've always believed that the numbers of the Drake equation were undeniable...life simply MUST exist somewhere else in the vastness of the Universe; but only recently have I delved into the possibility that we may be closer to contact than I previously thought. I'm not a nut-job government conspiracy theorist; nor am I a Raelian, a Roswell fanatic, or a champion of most kinds of unprovable theories. I simply find the concept fascinating, but often promulgated with pre-set rules that simply need not apply.

For instance:

Who ever said that a potential alien life form HAD to be similar in size to Humans, HAD to be using Volkswagen sized interstellar craft...or had to be even visible, for that matter? What about the concept of an interstellar visitor that rides the energy of a thumbnail-sized craft? One who is itself, no bigger than the average insect? Thousands of these craft could enter our skies every minute, and no one would be the wiser. The fact of the matter is that there are thousands of scenarios where we could be being visited without our knowledge, but only one that eliminates it completely...namely that they don't exist. I'll go with the odds on this one; I can think of more reasons how it might be happening, than how it is not.

Here's a home brewed theory you won't hear on Nimoy's "In Search Of" any time soon.
What if we have been visited for thousands of years...but not contacted? The difference is subtle, but often overlooked. What if an alien species is meticulously cataloging the ENTIRE biota of Earth, and simply has not made it's way to the large hominid Homo Sapien? Only a Human would be as egocentric as to assume WE are the most interesting species on a planet housing millions of others. Conversely, maybe the catalogue WAS started with Humans, but that chapter was accomplished in 5000 B.C, and they have been moving along with the rest of the species ever since; seeing no need to pay any particular attention to the now hairless ape with a penchant for violence. If you landed on a planet, in the name of your science, which housed hundreds of thousands of new species...where would you start to make contact? With the ones who are most destructive? With the one's who appear the smartest, or the prettiest, or smelled the best? Would you start with the species of greatest perceived threat to you...or save the worst for last? An ET Steven Segall would dispense with the worst first...then work on the rest over martinis and a rub down. An ET Woody Allen would go to any length to avoid us, while nervously asking all the others about our true intentions. My guess is that we occasionally see glimpses of a Woody Allen visitor. If we ever meet the Steven Segall one, we won't be around to talk about it.