Aliens Crash at Corona near Roswell?

Exactly. Well put. But since "aliens" have been made in our own image, by zealots who have some desperate psychological need for buddies up in the sky, it stands to reason that they would be furnished by the standard human characteristics, such as blundering into things, or generally stuffing up.

Of course, being just another weird religion, adherents are not supposed to use logic and reason to figure out that blundering idiots could not possibly guide their civilisation through countless perils, let alone cross the trillions of miles to get here. Laugh on my friend, just laugh on. Cheers!

I agree, the idea of an alien species capable of interstellar travel having an "oops!" moment is preposterous. Each level of the Roswell myth feels like the result of having watched too many old B-movies. Even the supposed appearance of the aliens themselves is laughably humanoid in a way that would be impossible to imagine in real life.

I don't think posters like Natasha have really grasped the magnitude of the science and technology needed to attempt interstellar travel. Arrival on Earth would be the culmination of possibly centuries (by our measure) of travel and the commitment of resources on a scale that our whole world couldn't hope to match. The craft's engines alone would be have to be packing incredible energy density to move so far in so small a size, perhaps hundreds of kg of antimatter.

Think about it, if a car's fuel goes up it might damage a street. When a rocket explodes it can lay waste to a wide area. If enough fuel to accelerate to 99% of light goes bang... we're talking a very large hole in the American continent.

At very least enough to fatally irradiate a large area. To top it off you have the whole X-Files alien cover-up aspect. Why a civilisation potentially millions of years ahead of our own would care for a millisecond about human political agendas is bewildering.

Do humans stop to consider the political machinations of their house-pets? Because that's essentially the level we'd be on compared to a civilisation able to flit between stars. I'm personally pretty sure this planet has never been visited by aliens.

Alien life could well be common out there but it looks increasingly likely that there is only one intelligent civilisation in the galaxy and that's us.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.