The cinema hall was packed full. The audience cheered and laughed at the show. Well, for one thing, it was fiction for they know that such thing is impossible in real life. After all, here they are, seated without any invading men from space.
But wait a minute. Space invaders? Yes, call them ET’s, little green men, or any other name. That cinema show may be for real. Because some people believe that one fateful day, extraterrestrials will seize the earth.
Come to think of it. In the history of civilization when has the nations not been at each other’s throat? From the ancient to modern times. And with sophisticated weapons. In the end, some nations have been wiped out, while others have emerged. Show me Babylon. Show me Carthage. Or show me Songhai.
So what makes you think that some blood-thirsty space men are not desperately searching for us. To make prisoners. Keep as pets. Or destroy!
That is a chilling thing. As chilling as the crusades. Or the Jihads. Or the world wars. Or the war against the terrorists.
Now, just in case you think that the earth is the only place where living creatures are playing around, you had better think twice. For there could be life out there in Mars. Or Europa, Jupiter’s moon. Or elsewhere for that matter.