The polls vary but in the most recent one that I have seen....most Americans....57%....believe in the existence of alien life. We as a people are half expecting that something exciting will soon happen in the skies. Well...that is going to happen....but not in the way we expect it might. The following was first posted in June of 2017....and I bring it back as aliens are once again in the news:
Keep Looking To The Skies
The scientists remained busy in their work as chaos enveloped the entire world. Their mission had been to find life in the outer reaches of the universe and then communicate with them. It was a project that was given every conceivable help in its mission. There were no budgets, no rules and no hindrances of any kind. Mankind, science to be more exact, was certain of two things....the human race is self-destructing and if there was to be any help it would have to come from intelligent life outside of our own.
A nuclear war had devastated most of the inhabited world. Over population would no longer be a concern for most of humanity had either died in the war or through starvation and disease. There were factions posing as governments who still struggled to control what little resources were left on earth. The scientists at this super telescope had not found any help in time to avert nuclear war but they were permitted to continue for there was progress of sorts being made.
A very special code was developed and sent into space in every direction. This code was so advanced that even its creators could not fully understand it. The hope and expectation of the scientists was that any intelligent life outside of the earth that would pick up such signals must therefore be more advanced than ours and would be able to explain our own code to us, understand our primitive attempts, and discern our objectives even in the midst of our own confusion.
As if wars would not have been enough, the cosmos picked a terrible time to erupt upon earth. Asteroids appeared only at the last moment before striking our planet. The earth itself remained on its axis but every people group in the world was in a tailspin. The combination of nuclear explosions and asteroids striking the planet caused many earthquakes but they did something even more devastating, as the earth's tectonic plates began to move once again over the earth's mantle. It had always been assumed that the first continental drift took long periods of time but here one could measure the movement every day. The Americas were heading back to Europe and Africa. Greenland was returning to its original position as was Australia. Even Antarctica was drifting northward. Some mountain ranges appeared almost as it they were melting.
There were tyrants and dictators and mass murderers in the aftermath of war but there was one particular man who had success assuming power over much of the world's people but he himself was now almost ignored in the sulfur filled atmosphere and little light on earth.
Remarkably, the scientists kept to their work. Had they made no progress they too might have panicked and their work abandoned but something was happening. They were picking up signals that were not chaotic or coincidence and were placing these signals over the grid of the code they had constructed even though they had no specific formula for decoding them, for they were depending upon the aliens for this.
Word was leaked to what remained of humanity that distinct signals were picked up from outer space and this was received with great joy and expectation with no fear whatsoever. All were now focusing on a future once again and not the cataclysms they had been experiencing for a few years. One person was not enthused about this...that was the man who had assumed control over most of the world's people. His time had come to rule and he wanted no help from any other intelligent life. In fact he alone showed fear at the reports of the scientists.
The signals coming back to earth were distinct and powerful. Scientists determined that the first signal received was the letter 'I.' They put forth the possibility that it could be a pronoun. The same message came in every three hours. Computers and scientists worked on the decoding. There seemed to be three words and then a pause and then another word. The second word was deciphered as....'am.' Scientists were now sure that the 'I' was a pronoun and that the message was beginning with 'I am,' with two more words to be decoded.
Those on the telescope had discovered a cloud formation coming from the direction of the signals and it was becoming clearer the closer it came. The determination of everyone involved was that aliens not only were responding with signals but they were approaching also. The information was leaked to the listening world. Panic was decreasing as hope was spreading. The only exception to this, once again, was the leader who continued to demand that all eyes be on him. This leader had prohibited scientists from giving out news but others set up a continuous broadcast from the telescope and laboratories.
Who would these aliens be who were coming to help? What would they look like and just how would they help? Surely they were the long expected rescuers! Man would survive after all! He had determined long ago that he was the measure of all things and now he was to be rewarded.
Scientists were decoding the last two words. The first was 'coming.' "I am coming' was the message followed by a pause. The fourth word was more difficult. Its letters made no sense. Perhaps it was a name of the approaching alien but such a powerful intellect would have known that we could not decipher its meaning.
The cloud formation became even more clear in its approach. It appeared to be spaceships. The form of spaceships could not be seen but what else could they be? It now could no longer be described as a cloud. Light was all around it with a intensity that seemed to be brighter than the sun itself.
Peoples all over the earth, when told of the sightings, began to make images of the approaching aliens and pay homage to them. The earth still stank of sulfur as cosmic bodies still pummeled it. Winds and hail tormented many parts of the earth but the people shouted joyfully to the skies that previously frightened them.
Scientists all over the world were put to the task of decoding the last word. An answer was rumored to have been discovered but was not released to the people....as there was great disagreement as to doing so. Some scientists were seen leaving the laboratories in a panic....and this panic began to spread to the people.
One pale-faced scientist appeared before the microphones and described the lights as they were getting nearer the earth. He described them as looking like....horses! The world was dumbfounded. Then word was leaked from decoders who were closing the laboratories and hastily leaving. The last word was from an old language of the Middle East. It was actually many words within one. The final interpretation was....'I am coming....the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.'
