When E.T. phoned home, where did he call?

The answer is: (opens envelope)...anywhere he wanted. Its true we are still babes learning about life and the universe, so we haven't a clue, yet where all to look. To say we know for sure in any direction is false. We need more time and money invested and humans need to see and go themselves. It was once said, in a similar thread, that robots can do it all, they are both strong and can be brilliant in their knowledge. But some thing to consider is, they know EXACTLY what we want them to, at present. If we sent a robotic probe to a planet to look for microbial life, that's EXACTLY what it would do, and its arm would push the squid away to try to find it. Man needs to be out there, not machines, and we will learn more than we could possibly imagine.

He probaby called the offices of Nyarlathotep and Minions in the ancient underwater city of R'lyeh (near the South American southwest coast). I've heard they specialize in illegal aliens (see: Cthulhu vs. Earth)....

An interesting topic for intelligent duscussion has been totally ruined by the morons whom R.A Heinlein once referred to as 'Laughing Jackasses".

A few intelligent comments, you know who you are. As for the rest, get a brain.

Well, I should cop to the story now. I am ET, my name is Steve and the movie is loosely based on our (me and my family) third visit here back in 1941. I went for an unsupervised and unscheduled walk in the woods when the proximity alarmed signaled the approach of your curious military and forced a speedy liftoff. Mom and Dad where halfway out of your solar system before they realized I wasn't on board. I didn't try to phone home, that was Spielberg's idea. I was just sending a text message to let mom know where I was and that I was okay, and very hungry. The food here is terrible! Where did we come from? I can't spell it in English, but it's about 52 light years away, at least that's what Bob says, he's our navigator and science officer. Dad hired him from something similar to your want ads back on our home planet, said he was a specialist to strange and exotics worlds. Mom said we should of checked Bobs references a little better since we can't get back home now. It seems that when you ride Tachyon pulses across the universe, you can get anywhere really fast and don't age at all, but the rest of the universe ages a lot. It only took us about 62 hrs to get here, but our home-world aged about a billion years. OK, not really a billion years, but long enough for everything to RIP. So, we can't go back home, no food, no water, no nothing!! So, we decided to stay here. We looked around for other places to live, in fact, Bob is out searching for other places to live right now. He, my aunt Edna and cousin Roscoe are searching for a new place with decent food and methane ponds(the best for your skin). Anyway, for right now, we live here and kind of blend in. Mom is a cashier at Kroger's, Dad works at the Ford dealership in Evansville and sis is a Doctor at the Jewish Hospital in Louisville. I'm in between jobs right now, but hope to be in DC this fall if all goes well. Let's Hope for some Change,... Peace!!!

I see beginning to emerge, new schools of scientific research. Current science and technology are on threshold of opening new doors for developing credible, new questions/ hypothesis. This new knowledge and inquiry will allow us understand this planet, our solar system, the galaxy and universe in ways yet to be understood. These are all puzzles for us to select and solve. From my understanding, these new paths may lead us to understand our Earth's oceans/ phenomenon and planetary habitation within the deep frozen crusts, of Mars polar regions.

While our "universe" is such a large place, the only argument for the abundance of "living" things seems to center on the largeness of the universe and the hubris of humans who would dare declare life "special" or limited in distribution. In point of fact, there is but one known example of living things and there is absolutely zero data for any other example of anything alive anywhere else (Roswell aside). The first evidence of life on Earth seems to be at about 3.7 billion years ago and may indicate an earlier "origin" perhaps 4 billion years ago (on an Earth that originated 4.5 billion years ago). If we place the origin of the universe at about 13.5 billion years. In another 3 billion years or so, life on Earth will vanish as the Sun expands to encompass this planet's orbit. Thus, the life window for Earth seems to be about 7 billion years or less. As yet that impetus to be alive on one side of a line and not alive on the other is a huge chasm--the fossil record is not helpful, or we are not able to recognize that momentous transition. It would seem that there may be more serendipitous occurrences than we understand to "ignite" the life spark: all the requirements of orbits, planet size, composition, atmosphere, tectonics, ocean basins, star size and structure, orbit range, etc., than we can cope with. It would seem that it is just as reasonable that the life experiment happened very few times, and the intellect aspect of evolution, even fewer, all happenstances making the universe a very lonely place indeed.

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