Thanks to Hollywood I think the idea of "aliens" has come to normally be understood as other highly intelligent lifeforms such as human beings. Obviously I have no proof but with the universe being as HUGE as it is I just can't see our planet being the ONLY one with life on it. For all we know there could be anything from teeny tiny microscopic organisms like baceteria or fungus to sea-life to giant terrifying spider-like things to maybe even grey spacemen or all of the above living on a planet that we may only be 50 or so years away from landing on. Any of those things could be considered "alien" as it's all extraterrestrial life to us. Part of me hopes that we don't get nuked back into the stone age before finding out, but a more cynical part of me has to wonder if an apocalypse might not be such a bad thing after all- morality be damned.
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I spit bullets in my feet
Every time I speak
So I write instead
And still people want me dead
~msc
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