My theory as to why we haven't been visited by aliens.

[MikeG]

If they are like us, they would have killed us and taken our food.

If they are NOT like us, they would have killed us and eaten us as food.

[Sanity Claws]

1. They have visited us

I've met some aliens. Not very chatty. Poor dressers.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Sometimes I joke

that my brother is really an alien from Pluto. :shrug: He claims Jupiter. LOL. If I was an alien I wouldn't stay here too long. I'd be annoyed too much by all the nonsense. Unless I was in another country of course.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Well, considering that our solar system contains no

other habitable planets, and that the nearest star is six light years away (that means it would take six years to reach it if traveling at approximately six mlllion miles an hour), the aliens haven't gotten here yet, even if they're on their way.

Which is probably a good thing.

[tridim]

6. You're assuming space isn't bendable

Space can, and does bend just like a sheet of paper. It's entirely possible that six light years can be traversed almost instantaneously. Of course we can't do this with our current technology, but maybe in 10,000 years we'll have the ability. Alien civilizations might be millions of years ahead of us.

[BlueJazz]

10. I believe 4.2 Light Years. (kindly correction)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. Still, you'd have to pack a lot of clean underwear...

:-)

[d_b]

3. Sometimes I think that Bush & Co. are from a different galaxy.

Seriously.

[Goathead]

5. We wouldn't be able to spot an alien, even if we wanted to

Their technology would be so advanced as to make them appear as gods or some force of nature. They could be all around us and we would never know because our capacity to perceive them would be minuscule compared to their abilities.

[BBradley]

13. And they'd totally be like 8 feet tall!

and they'd shoot LASERS out of their freaking EYES, man. They'd be SOOOO awesome.

[Goathead]

15. Man... You're like missing the whole point, man

We would be like fleas to them. They would take us in and nurture us in a small lab, per haps perform experiments on us, but it would be OK because we wouldn't know the difference. We would just think that our gods weren't favoring us at that moment. We would soon learn the difference though and love our new alien overlords and worship them as our masters. ;-)

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. Before any civilization can reach the point where interstellar travel

is possible, they destroy themselves.

[MidwestMomma]

8. Maybe they killed & ate a few of us but we tasted bad?

Just a theory....

[MikeG]

9. Then we are probably like broccoli to them.

[Arkana]

12. I always assumed it was because they were too busy laughing

[Huckebein the Raven]

14. Dubya

enough said.

:D