My mission for this week is to write five blog entries that don’t include the words “budget”, “health care”, or “policy”. I need to save my strength for the coming battles.
Instead, let’s talk about aliens. The Fermi Paradox asks this simple question: “If one assumes that the galaxy is teeming with intelligent life, then where is everybody?” According to one theory, the civilizations that keep to themselves and stay under the radar of the more aggressive civilizations are the ones that probably stand the best chance of enduring. The loudmouthed cultures are the ones that get invaded, pillaged, and turned into slave labor or snacks. If this theory turns out to be true, then humanity might want to constructing its battle armada now. That, or find a way to make our flesh taste like whatever substance aliens find really disgusting.
