Alien Invasion!!!

"So as the aliens were laying waste once again to our Terra Firma, I had this nagging thought. What happened to the warm and cuddly aliens in ET or Close Encounters?" 

I just got home from seeing the aliens lay waste to the Earth once again. This time in Independence Day (Two), they came back with a vengeance. On a ship about the size of our great republic. I am not big on spoilers, so that is about as much as I will say about the plot. Except for one thing - boy, oh boy, have the CG (Computer Graphics) improved in the past 20 years. It came out in HD and 3D. I saw the HD version and am glad I did. If I had seen this in 3D, I might have puked.

So as the aliens were laying waste once again to our Terra Firma, I had this nagging thought. What happened to the warm and cuddly aliens in the movies ET or Close Encounters? Now we seem to get nothing but the scuz of the galaxy who want to come to out planet, kill us, and strip our resources bare. And of course, they are always a few thousand years of evolution ahead of us.

There actually is a program called The Disclosure Project. It is run by a guy who at one time was an emergency room physician from North Carolina. And this Disclosure Project really believes our government has known about "ET" for some time now, and this year (or next), our government is really going to come clean.

How clean? Roswell clean. Some think even before Roswell. Back to what happened in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Some say even earlier than that. In any event, none of the "ET" type aliens were truculent. They may not have been as warm and cuddly as in the movie ET, but they were not exterminators either.

So this question remains a question. Are we alone in the Universe? According to the Drake Equation, there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand in the desert. And that be a bunch. According to our Kepler "planet hunter" telescope, we have already discovered 1,000 new planets. And guess what? Many astronomers, many more intelligent than I, believe the number of planets in the Universe might number in the trillions. Now that is a lot of cheese! 

So please Hollywood - no more movies like The Fourth Kind, Independence Day, or whatever - give us some mellow visitors. If we are not alone in the Universe, let it be a Close Encounter of the nice kind. Please?