Thursday, June 21, 2012

Seriously ...

If you were a space alien with the intelligence and wherewithal to make it to Earth, why would you even bother making contact? I mean, with all the crap floating around this planet, you'd think we were nothing but a buncha slobs.

Houston is all too aware of this problem: The area of space just outside of Earth is growing dangerously crowded with space junk, debris leftover from 50 years-worth of humanity’s spacefaring activities and from tiny meteorites.

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Alien travel brochures probably call the Solar System the "Ghetto of the Milky Way".

2 comments:

  1. Alien travel brochures probably call the Solar System the "Ghetto of the Milky Way".

    "Mostly harmless," one might even say.

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  2. We're the equivalent of that house that has four old junk cars up on blocks in the weed-filled front yard and a torn sofa on the front porch, and a jillion half-naked kids playing in the mud puddles of the dirt driveway. No wonder we haven't encountered any aliens -- or if we have, they took one look and ran screamin' for the next solar system.

    - Badtux the White Trash Penguin

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