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frogmarch

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1. Until there’s hard evidence
Sat Mar 1, 2014, 02:53 PM
Mar 2014

that ETs are visiting Earth, I’ll remain skeptical. The more of these pseudoscientific UFO television programs I watch, the more skeptical I become. The producers of these shows apparently choose to ignore the fact that the well-known cases they feature have been debunked, and they like alien-hunting cowboy nbutjobs and showing UFO "investigators" running around outside in the dark scaring the bejeebies out of each other (or pretending to): "OH MY GOD! WHAT WAS THAT? DID YOU SEE THAT?" It’s about Entertainment, not Enlightenment.

I read several science articles recently that said there are thought to be at least two billion planets out there that, like Earth, orbit their parent stars, have liquid water and lie in “the habitable zone.” The nearest of these planets to Earth is believed to be "only" 12 light-years away.

5,865,696,000,000 (1 light-year in miles) x 12 light-years = 70,388,352,000,000 miles (70 trillion, three hundred eighty-eight billion, 352 million miles.)

Only 12 light-years away?

Just because I don’t believe we’re being visited by ETs doesn’t mean I don’t like them. Here’s my latest alien deco piece.

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