Okay, let’s put aside the whole UAP/Chinese balloon/party balloon debate for a second and ponder a more terrifying possibility. What if that thing we shot down over Canada in February 2023 was actually an alien teenager borrowing their parents’ spaceship for a weekend joyride with their besties? Picture them cruising over Earth, marveling at our crazy antics, and BAM! We blast them out of the sky.
Now, imagine their parents finding out. Do you think they’ll just shrug it off? What if this was some alien royal or the equivalent of a celebrity athlete’s kids taking their parent’s ride for a spin? I’m picturing a very awkward intergalactic parent-teacher conference with us humans in the hot seat.
But here’s the real issue: By what authority do a few leaders get to decide to shoot down anything they don’t understand? It’s like your neighbor blasting your drone out of the sky because they thought it was a giant mosquito.
Let’s fast forward a few centuries. We finally send a spaceship to another planet, all excited to make first contact. We send a friendly message, and then… BOOM. Silence.
Back to our UAP incident, how is the decision of two guys (Biden and Trudeau) representative of the entire planet’s opinion? Shouldn’t we have a more… democratic process for deciding whether to potentially start an intergalactic war? I mean, we can’t even agree on pineapple on pizza, let alone how to greet extraterrestrial visitors.
This undemocratic and oppressive decision-making process and authority must be reformed. It’s extremely dangerous when the choice and action of one person can affect the entire planet’s existence, even animals! We should not all suffer the consequences of any minority’s ignorant behavior.
We need to rethink this whole “shoot first, ask questions later” approach. It’s not exactly a recipe for galactic inclusivity. If we keep this up, any future interspecies relationships will be doomed. The question about aliens may be more nuanced than the Fermi paradox or “where is everybody?”. Perhaps everybody knows we are hostile, unwelcoming, and unkind, especially to strangers. Aliens might be avoiding us not because they’re hiding, but because they know we’re a bunch of trigger-happy weirdos.
From our leaders to our daily lives, we need to adopt a more compassionate and welcoming approach. Let’s try love, not lasers. It might just work better in the long run.
So, here’s hoping that what we shot down was just a harmless party balloon and not some poor alien teenager. And let’s learn a lesson from this: Think before you shoot! Otherwise, we might find ourselves in an intergalactic conflict we never signed up for.
