Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 17, 2024

There’s life on Earth. Intelligent life? Not so much.

Well, if the aliens landed at the foot of Mount Rushmore they might think that. What if they landed in the Sahara dessert, or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Why is Brewster assuming they’ve landed on an inhabited site?

(Of course, Brewster isn’t playing with a full deck, and in the movies the humans always land in the worst possible spot on another planet.)

I recently read an article that suggests we’ve been looking for life on Mars the wrong way. It states that we need to follow the salts, not the water.

Those remind me of “Earth vs. The Flying Saucers” I was a kid and they really scared me. (mission accomplished)

The problem is how to recognize really alien life. The most advanced and powerful civilization in the galaxy may be a layer of semiconductor material on an asteroid near a nondescript red dwarf star.

I think we know now who did stone hedge.

Um, fellas? First, they’d have to know what your leader looks like…!

“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to biro life forms.”

Funny, they didn’t look stoned.

Thereby showcasing the problem.

The aliens came to Earth and found life. They said they didn’t much care for tragedies, and then they left.

This makes me think of the Star Trek episode The Savage Curtain where a conscious rock creature pits Kirk, Spock, Abraham Lincoln, and the Vulcan legend Surak against notorious villains from history to help the rock creature understand “good and evil”.

No life? Why the guns?

Earthlings are rude……