The world has gone a bit dull, with its bitter local wars and international versions of TV crap such as ‘Masterchef’ and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
I think we need extraterrestrials to land and shake things
up.
Now, the question of whether there is intelligent non-human life ‘out
there’ is often mocked. Sensible folk reckons it's merely the obsession of sci-fi nerds and demented conspiracy
theorists.
But actually, this is the biggest question facing humanity –
and actually the subject of serious debate and study by (among others) physicists,
philosophers and theologians.
The visitors to Earth won’t – in all probability – be like those American
B-movie monsters, or like the Cadbury’s Smash tinpot space aliens from the
memorable British TV ads.
But I think their arrival might well result in our ‘small
potato’ world becoming more interesting …
