…aliens landed in the backyard?
That’s a question that the Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon asked a group of fourth and fifth graders recently. Since we wrote a book on that very subject: Aliens in the Backyard, we of course were interested in what the kids had to say.
Their answers are hilarious. Here’s a sampling.
Dana Smith, Grade 5, Four Corners
I would teach them math, how to dance and how to eat like a normal person like using plates, spoons, and other things.
Arlet Lopez, Grade 5, Four Corners
I would teach them how to ride a bull, play soccer, and how to get dirty in the mud with pigs.
Kevin Ramos, Grade 5, Four Corners
Three things I would teach friendly aliens about Earth would be sarcasm, music, and animals.
If you want to read more of their responses, look here.
Obviously, these kids need to grow up and read our book!
How funny – love the way children look at life. Teach aliens sarcasm – that’s priceless!
Aliens sarcasm! You gotta love it.
Oh, I laughed at these responses, and wondered about these kids. They certainly have an imagination! 🙂
Those kids have seen E.T. too many times. They don’t realize that real aliens have a decidedly more sinister agenda for mankind, as David Jacobs’ research has revealed. If aliens actually landed in anybody’s backyard, assuming they didn’t immediately paralyze and spirit the victim away, the natural human response would certainly fluctuate between sheer awe and pure terror, even for those who fervently believe in extraterrestrial life. I’d hope that a benevolent species landed in my neighborhood, and not the grays or reptilians. Show me the entire history of the planet; DON’T subject me to genetic experiments & tracking devices! 🙂
Well said, Dale. No abduction, no implants, no harvesting…we are not farm animals!
I think the denizens of earth would benefit from a galactic Bill of Human Rights (similar to the Geneva Conventions) prohibiting inhumane treatment from extraterrestrial visitors / observers. Except we would have no practical way to enforce such laws against technologically advanced space-faring civilizations unless one of them allied with earth to protect our rights. But that day is probably a long way off.
course would you rather have them in your back yard then in the back of your mind,, witch might possibly be possible,,,,, best reason for pray can imagine….
and then he reads Adelita comment,, gosh I “hate” being redundant!!
“””thinking””??,, one smart thing to do would be to ask the same thing Rodney King asked a lot of years (a generation) ago!!
Sarcastic aliens! Too funny. Q. “Do you come in peace?” Alien answer: “What do you think?”