If I were a green, big-eyed extraterrestrial
Posted in Random ramble, World at June 22nd, 2009 ()A few days ago I went to Berlin. I had the chance to go around the city, and one of Berlin’s attractions is the Sony center. It has restaurants and coffee shops, a cinema museum and a cinema to name but a few things you can do around there. In the middle it has a mini-garden, and around it something like a huge bench where you can sit. Naturally, it was full with people. Tourists taking a break and some photos, but also Berliners meeting with their friends and hanging around there.
That was the first day. Then, the next day and for the three of four following days, things changed. A huge red carpet arrived, they put fence all over it, covering also the big bench, and in the middle of it all they built a stage.
Now there was a big banner outside the cinema, and it advertised the Transformers movie. I thought this might have to do with the stage and carpet, but I was not sure.
As days went by, the fence was becoming annoying, because this is a pretty popular place, lots of people were coming and going, and I thought that whatever this event is about, it was not really worth it.
I left Berlin at the 14th of June, so today, two days later, I thought I might check what this was all about. And I found this video.
Let’s imagine that there really are aliens, who come and visit us every now and then, take some of us to have sex with them, then put a chip, potato chip, or whatever in our noses and throw us back to earth to go about our human business.
It’s not a theory that could even come near logic or reality, but I’ll use this little fairy tale some attention whores made up, just for the fun of it.
This is how I would explain the video to my little green fellows when I went back to my distant planet.
First a small intro about this blue planet. I would say that this is the weirdest, creepiest place I have ever been to. There are many living things on this planet, some with two legs, others with four, and some with even more. Most of these things, beings, eat other beings, or some colorful objects, found on the ground or on weird columns with hair. Hair at the color of our skin.
But the weirdest being on this planet is one which looks much like us, actually. Their skin is not green, and their eyes are smaller. Surely they have tiny brains, but they have achieved more than the other beings of their planets. They call themselves humans.
We examined one of their nests at the upper side of the planet. They have big structures, in which they live, but all around them they have many of these columns with hair. Maybe they like to watch them, because they don’t seem to have any use. What’s more, other nests have only structures. Maybe these humans don’t like to watch the columns.
Humans come in many sizes and colors, except for green, but when they are at their nests, they all think they are superior that the others.
Now, at this one nest, we noticed some humans gathering in a structure. And we saw the most extraordinary thing. There were many of these humans, making creepy noises, which we could not stand, and we had to put our earplugs on, or else we were afraid our brains would be fried.
And they made these noises, for other humans. And their faces seemed like those of other beings. We could not understand yet how these beings managed to build these structures. They seem far more inferior than their technology.
To go back to our own history, we have records of ancients, who about 1,5 trillion years ago, when the asteroid 3AZ6 hit our planet, could not understand why, and so they made some rituals about it and worshiped it.
This looked a lot like what they did too, but instead of an asteroid, they worshiped other humans. When one of the asteroid-humans approached some of the others, they totally lost it. They screamed like they were in big pain, even louder than before. We could still hear them with our earplugs on. And they gave the asteroid-humans pieces of some kind of primitive writing material to draw something on, and then took it back and put it on their chests, but they were still screaming.
At the end of this ritual, the “asteroids” stood in the middle of the others, and people with bright, sudden lights came and flashed them in front of their eyes. These were not screaming, so they possibly were not in pain like the others.
We decided to leave, as there was nothing more we could learn about these primitive “humans”. We also decided, and we want to have the community’s approval, never to go back to this blue planet. Or maybe in a few billions of years, when they will have evolved.