Timmy said, “The Wow signal might very well be real. We might’ve heard a message from another life form and the vast majority of people don’t even know it happened. The biggest moment in world history and your average person is to busy watching TV shows and eating junk food to care. That might go down in history as first contact. Everyone wants proof of alien life, well there it is”
Bobby looked back up to the stars “But there has to be life out there. There are billions of planets in our galaxy alone, and tens of billions of galaxies. It’s crazy to think were alone in the universe. One of them has to have life at least. Maybe not humans, but insects maybe, or animals, maybe weird looking fish swimming in water”
Timmy looked away from the forest for a second. He was still jumpy and on edge after seeing the bright object outside his bedroom window, but now that he had his friends with him walking through the forest in search of the source and knowing it was going to lead to world fame, he started feeling better. He hoped he would be the first to spot the mysterious object somewhere in the forest. He looked up at the stars. “Just for a moment though, can you image aliens living on their own planet looking up at the stars wondering if we exist. If they saw us, they would call us the weird looking aliens. We would look back at them and say, were not the aliens, you are. Who knows, maybe scientists on other planets have seen earth through their own telescopes claiming there’s life on this planet. Only to have skeptics on their planet say no there’s not. There’s no life on other planets. Their scientists dream about us as much as we dream about them”
“You think aliens fear us as much as we would fear them?” Kyle asked.
“Good point,” Sam said, “Whenever you watch a movie about aliens it shows aliens as either smart and calm or evil and mean and humans as being scared. If they do exist, maybe they are afraid of us”
Bobby looked at the others “What would you do if the alien Timmy saw walked out of the forest right this second and stood in front of us? I know what I would do; I stay calm and try to talk to it. Ask it questions about its home world. Get to know the creature. In no way would I panic.”
Kyle agreed “Me to, I wouldn’t panic either, only wimps panic, like Warren and his gang, I bet they would freak out and run. I would be cool and calm, like a secret spy. I wear a tuxedo and drive a fast car and have a martini drink in my hand”
Bobby looked over to Kyle “You’d wear a tuxedo to talk to an alien?”
“No, I wouldn’t wear a tuxedo just to talk to an alien” he answered “I would wear one for my secret missions around the world and just happen to be wearing one when I crossed path with the alien”
Bobby nodded “What if this alien turns out to be evil and wanted to take over our planet like in the movies. I would stay cool and save the earth”
Timmy smiled “Yeah, just like in a low budget B science fiction movies were everyday people are called upon to save the earth from weird looking evil aliens. That would be me; I’d be the hero. No way would I let any alien harm earth. I would save the earth, and a movie would be made about it”
The other boys laughed.
“What do you think this alien were after will look like?” Bobby asked as he walked along.
“I bet it’s over seven feet tall.” Kyle answered, “Evil looking with small red eyes, big long teeth and carry ray guns, or it looks like a cute little leprechaun”
They all laughed.
Bobby added “I bet it ends up looking like a giant insect with four arms and two heads and its here to steal earth’s recourses and not have a care in the world. I bet it talks in a really high voice as well.” He started walking around with his legs stiff and arms out. “Take me to your leader. I am an evil alien, I want to see the one you call the General,” he said sounding like he was on helium.
The others laughed.
“Bobby where do you get your crazy ideas from?” asked Kyle.
“From the greatest books ever made, comic books.” He said with a smile. He opened the comic book in his hand “Look for yourself. Look how creepy and evil they are”
They all stopped walking in the dark forest and looked through the comic book lit up by the moon as Bobby turned the pages. Their eyes lit up when they saw the aliens on the tenth page. It looked like a giant spider crossed with a cockroach with multiple arms holding massive guns.
“Cool” Kyle said, “That alien looks freaky. Look at its evil looking small white eyes”
Bobby nodded “I bet the alien in this forest looks just like this one. Determined to destroy the earth with super power lasers that can blow up cites with only one shot”
“One shot? That is creepy.” Timmy whispered. He wondered about the object he saw in his backyard. “Lets hope the alien here in the forest isn’t that evil”
“I saw a movie scarier then your comic book” Kyle said.
“Scarier? No way, which one?” Bobby asked.
“It was called The Day Earth Died. The aliens came from Mars and enslaved all humans. Taken everyone back to Mars after destroying our planet. Nuclear bombs had no effect on stopping the alien ships”
All the kids stopped walking and looked at each other.
“That’s creepy” Timmy said, “How would we stop them if that happened here in our town?”
“And the aliens wore bright metal outfits” Kyle paused and looked at each one of them “and no faces”
The kids quickly looked at each other, and at the same time said “Wohhhh”
“It’s a good thing we have the military here to stop them if it turns out the alien Timmy saw is evil.” Sam said and laughed.
“Why do aliens have to be so evil?” Bobby asked sounding disappointed.
“Like you said,” Timmy answered “ They’re smarter then us. We do the same thing to life on this planet. Humans have always taken from the weak. Look at how many species are on the endangered list. We cut down the rainforest taking away their homes. Because humans feel we‘re smarter we can pass judgment on all creatures beneath us. Maybe the alien in this forest is thinking the same thing. If given the chance to come here they would do the same to us. Look at how humans treat ants. We feel where smarter, so we don’t care about stepping on them on the sidewalk. We put them in jars and watched them live. The ants have no idea there being watched. The same thing could be happening to us. Aliens could be watching us right now and we would never know it. For all we know, the earth, our solar system and the whole universe could be inside a fish bowl sitting on a desk in some alien’s bedroom. Just like how little kids have ant farms in a glass case inside their bedrooms. The ants have no idea what’s truly going on. The ants cannot think beyond their world. Maybe we humans can’t either. Look at how photographers go out into the wild to photograph insects and birds. Sometimes the insects fight with each other. The photographer doesn’t get involved in stopping the fight; he just sits back and takes pictures and the insects have no idea of what’s happening. If aliens have discovered earth there’s a good chance the they take us all out, it what a human would do”
The kids all looked at each other and nodded.
“Make no mistake about it guys aliens are evil” Bobby said “If there’s one thing comic books have taught me, it’s aliens will take out all life on earth in a heart beat. They have no desire to want to get to know us. They just want to get rid of us and steal everything we own, just like an invading army. I bet this alien is up to the same thing. Aliens are no different then humans”
“We better be careful out here” Kyle said, “This alien might mean us harm”
Sam spoke up “If you guys want a good joke just go online and read stores about alien abductions; I couldn’t help but laugh. Only the weirdest people clam to be abducted. You want to know if someone is crazy; just asked them if a UFO has ever abducted them. Of all the stores on the Internet about abductions, none of them could possibly be true. People talking about being taken onboard massive sized ships and seeing other planets. Meeting with aliens with big eyes. How silly can you
get? No wonder people laugh at them. I don’t think we have to worry about aliens finding earth”
“And how do you know that?” Bobby asked.
Sam looked at the group. “I read in my science book, the universe is too big. You have to travel at the speed of light to get around. It’s too much traveling. Do you know the speed of light is 186, 282 miles per second.”
The three other boys suddenly stopped and simultaneously looked at Sam.
“Wow” Kyle yelled out “Mr. scientist where did you get those numbers from?”
“Did you just make that up?” Bobby said then looked at the other guys “It sounds made up”
Kyle nodded back “Sounds made up to me as well”
“No, I’m honest” Sam said “I read it in a science textbook last week. The book has some cool facts. Traveling at that speed it will take over 50, 000 light years to travel the width of our galaxy alone. Forget about how long it will take to reach another galaxy”
“50, 000 light years? That’s crazy. Who could live that long?” Timmy asked.
Sam continued “You can travel around the earth seven and a half times in one second traveling at the speed of light. Just imagine how big the earth is. You would have to travel at that speed for fifty thousand years non stop to travel our galaxy”
“And no bathroom breaks” joked Kyle.
They all laughed.
Sam continued, “The universe is 150 billion light
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