SharonA - Good point! I am sure the space program was not faked, especially the failures...but I think there were some aspects kept secret about what DID happen on some occasions. I think they know way more than they are telling us. That doesn't mean they faked what they ARE telling us, necessarily.

JohnInKansas - I don't know about any "hidden" messages...? I know some people think crop circles are a hidden message, but I have no strong opinion on that matter at this point.

One thing that always strikes me...when we write a fictional story about some alien world, we virtually always picture it as a world with a single, united society with a homogenious culture, and all that. Well, look at this world. It's incredibly fragmented and disunited. The old "take me to your leader" thing could have about 180,000 completely different results, depending on where you landed and whom you spoke to...and then which language would you have to know in order to speak to them? The mind boggles. This planet could be pretty damn confusing to an interplanetary visitor with peaceful intentions.

One with warlike intentions, of course, wouldn't care, and would just do what was necessary to overcome resistance and take over.

Fortunately, that hasn't happened.

I think the most likely explanations for why contact has not been more open up to now are:

1. This place isn't ready for it, and the aliens know it.

2. This place isn't important enough for them to bother.

3. We are presently too dangerous, too paranoid, and too disunited to be worth dealing with.

4. Or all of the above.

Plus a hundred other possibilities.

GUEST - How do you know there aren't faeries around right now in nature? (Quite regardless of aliens) I have read a number of interesting books about faeries, and other forms of nature spirits. What's that got to do with space aliens?

- LH