It constantly amazes me that since we are the dominant species on this planet that we naturally assume we know everything there is to know about science and technology. The reason I say this is because the scientific community trots out various scientific beliefs to prove to us that we are not being visited by any alien civilization from other worlds. Their arguments include such things as we are too far away for them to travel here or it is too expensive to travel here or they can't travel faster than the speed of light, etc. I, however, argue that just because we don't know how to do these things does not mean that the technology does not exist! The reasoning that comes from the scientific community can easily be shot down by anyone who has even a tiny knowledge of ancient and medieval history.

A long time ago, some 6 or 8 centuries to be precise, North, Central, and South America was an idyllic place for a race of people that we have erroneously called Indians. There were many different tribes and peoples spread over this continent, much the same as there were many different tribes and peoples spread over the European continent. The differences however quickly became apparent when those who were more technologically advanced began exploring. Long before Christopher Columbus set foot on this continent, there were other visitors. Norsemen or Vikings established some small colonies and some ships that were presumed sunk and lost from European ports swept up on the shores of North America. All of these minor contacts with an ALIEN race meant that stories and legends began to be told about the pale skinned white devils that came from afar. One needs to merely examine some of the stories and legends to see that they are not too dis-similar from the reports of sightings of UFOs and alien beings that we hear about today.

The majority of the local populous of course dismissed the tales of these far away visitors because everyone knew that the world ended somewhere beyond the sea and anyone who ever attempted to venture out past sight of land in canoes were never heard from again. The most powerful weapons were stone tipped arrows and the swords that Aztec warriors used were simply wood with stone chips embedded to give a cutting edge. There were no immense siege engines, no cannons, no working of metals in any way. In short, the inhabitants of North, Central and South America were so technologically backward they were considered as less than human to those that landed on these shores. Much of the technology that the indigenous people of the Americas encountered from the European invaders came across to them as nothing short of magical and even the most fervent believer that the pale skinned white devils didn't exist quickly changed his mind as his life's blood stained cold Spanish steel.

No, we don't know how to travel to distant galaxies and distant stars and planets. No, we don't know how to build craft that are truly capable of interplanetary flight and no, we don't know how to pool our resources to be able to afford these types of technology without starving the species into extinction, but that does not mean that somebody else out there somewhere has not solved these problems.

I only hope that we learn to pull our arrogant and foolish scientific heads out of the sand before some intergalactic form of Christopher Columbus shows up and spills my blood or the blood of my children with the newest form of a Spanish sword.

But that's just my take on it.....