...what some people are saying is true?

You can hear just about anything on night time radio.  And if what some of what the voices are saying is true, then:

-There were alien bases on the Moon when the crews of the Apollo missions landed.
-There are ruins of pyramids and a sphinx-like face on Mars.

Today, in an article at Huffington Post, it is reported that Britain's Royal Society is meeting to discuss the possible presence of alien life on Earth--perhaps in some pretty odd places:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/25/search-for-aliens-should-_n_435148.html

A couple of months ago, it was rumored that President Obama would be making full disclosure of the presence of aliens amongst us.  That was to have happened on November 27, 2009.  Oops, that's the thing  about rumors--they are only reliably true after they actually happen.

But all that has got me to thinking...

So, what if...?

Would the predictions of the Brookings Report come to fruition?  Would a lot of ignorant people panic and, like the 1930s Halloween Night radio transmission of "The War of the Worlds," or like an episode straight out of "The Twilight Zone," start shooting at anyone they thought might be from, oh say, Zeta Reticuli?  Holy cow!  If that's the case, I sure hope I don't look like someone who's here on vacation from a gazillion light years away. 

So what, if...?

Well, that might answer a lot of questions about the prevalence of swamp gas, swarms of weather balloons and the lights over Phoenix, now mightn't it?

"Flying saucers" got their names back in the late 1940s.  I can't remember all that much about the story, but it seems that I remember reading or hearing that a pilot of a small plane saw several disks flying somewhere over Washington State or Oregon.  I was born just a few days after the purported crash in Roswell, New Mexico.  If you go back and take a look at the microfilm of the local newspapers of that era, you will see the residual affect of these occurrences, whatever they were, had on hometown front pages.

I've never seen a UFO.  I saw a spherical light flash in a cloud one time. That was cool.  A couple of my relatives saw a sphere swoop across the landscape back in the early fifties--it startled them so much that they told the story for years--but, in the final analysis, they decided that it was probably ball lightning.  Back in the seventies, a clearly frightened teen-aged neighbor told me that he and some friends had seen a large object, the size of the Moon, hovering over the local high school the night before. 

Then, there is another relative who told of being out on a boat, on a lake in Central Indiana, with his wife and a couple of  local sheriff's deputy friends.  They saw a craft come down, watched as it hovered over the water and, then, zip away...no doubt, it was...oh I don't know, let's just call it...a weather balloon.

During my lifetime, the citizenry has asked:  So, what if what some people are saying is true?

While the folks in charge have asked:  So what, if what some people are seeing is real?  We'll just tell them it was, oh I don't know, let's just call it...a weather balloon.  Unless you think they would be more likely to believe it was swamp gas--oh well, it doesn't matter.  If they refuse to believe it was swamp gas, we'll just laugh in their faces and tell everyone else that they're just...a  little  bit  crazy.  That should shut them all up for, oh say, sixty years or so, don't ya think?"

There is Climate Change?

...We can close our eyes, cover our ears and call Climatologists liars, or we can ask:

So what, if there is Climate Change?

So what, if we humans are contributing?

So what, if the outcome results in masses being displaced?

So what, if the outcome results in future generations dying of starvation?

Or, we can stop and consider:  So, what if there is Climate Change?

So, what if we humans are contributing?

So, what if the outcome results in masses being displaced?

So, what if the outcome results in future generations dying of starvation?

So, what if my great grandchildren wonder why I closed my eyes and covered my ears?