Extraterrestrial skies

homeward toward dawn. "I implore you, unwavering cloak. Let her be," The Night sky would moan. Its unearthly-meander spilling into the earth below. "Tell me I do not love the evidence of dawn!" but the wind's mouth does not converse, it only whispers the truth--should you listen. Should you have ears to hear,"tell me she doesn't love me!" Limbless. Formless. As if a breath! The fragmented light threw her arms about the night sky! Spilling her luminosity into form... Bleeding, as the wind…

descends for the day and across the horizon, twilight is setting a stunning display of kaleidoscopic colors. The colors ricochet off one another chasing the day away. The reddish gold colored fireball, seeming a lifetime ago, had aroused from the eastern sky and now descending into the western hemisphere, yet he is still not home and I begin walking the city streets all alone. Looking like a Weeble wobble toy I aimlessly wander the streets, reminiscing over that perfect night eight months ago.…

The texts to be discussed are as follow: ‘District 9’, ‘The Sentinel’ and ‘Victory Unintentional’. These texts are of the theme Humans vs Aliens. The self/other binary concept is conformed and challenged in these texts. For instance, in ‘District 9’ the self/other binary is followed and it is suddenly challenged as Wikus undergoes a transition. Another example is in ‘The Sentinel’ where the self/other binary is inverted as humans are seen as the ‘other’ and the aliens as the ‘self’ due to…

asked are, have we been visited by them? do they live among us? are they intelligent enough to get to us if they are out there? are they out there but we are the most advanced? These questions force us to ponder many different outcomes regarding extraterrestrial life. Are they out there? Were they out there?…

Does life exist elsewhere in the universe? — One of the most fascinating and compelling questions, whose answer has eluded us since the moment we learnt about the cosmos. It could in fact help us understand our own existence. There are several probabilistic arguments that not only try to show the existence of life, but also the existence of communicative civilisations. Frank Drake formulated the Drake equation one of the most famous one of these models. Rather than evaluate and quantify the…

Session four Writing Assignment In the movie Contact, after the tragic loss of her father and mother, Doctor Eleanor Arroway finds herself questioning her faith in God. As a scientist, she spends most of her adult life trying to find evidence of extraterrestrial life on other planets. The film not only touches your heart but also gives you the insight into her atheist worldview and the reasoning behind her beliefs. The movie makes a connection between religion, science, and politics. Although I…

District 9 and The Globalism District 9 is a movie described an extraterrestrial race landed on the Earth, which created tons of social, economic and ethical conflicts. The pivotal role is Wikus Van De Merwe, who is an agent accidently exposure to the alien biotechnology and becomes the only person who perfectly combined the alien genes and human’s. In this film, the settings are creative, the aliens become the disadvantaged party due to illness, and human beings become the privileged party who…

Fermi Paradox, the apparent theory of the existence of other intelligent life civilizations in our universe. Using the conflict of scale and probability, the Fermi Paradox favors intelligent life in the universe, despite the lack of evidence of extraterrestrials. No present observations suggest there are technologically advanced civilizations living in our galaxy or universe. However, under the prevalent assumption of galactic civilization creation and development, the absence of other life in…

his UFO encounter at Area 51. MUFON has over 100,000 cases of UFO reports that need to be shared with the world. Area 51 is testing technology that the public is not aware of. It would be of great interest, for the Military to study, and test extraterrestrial technology. Area 51 is an extremely secretive military base. Therefore, they are most likely testing Alien technology and…

The Truth is Out There Decades ago the first extraterrestrial life form came to Earth. The first humans these beings made contact with decided that the best course of action would be to conceal their existence until a more appropriate time. Throughout the years these men have used various strategies to seize and discredit evidence that could verify the presence of aliens on Earth. These men are known as the men in black. Thanks to the similarly titled comedy blockbuster, Men in Black that was…