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{"id":73,"date":"2008-01-29T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T12:41:00","slug":"mmem-vol-4-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwesternmeditations.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"MMeM, Vol. 4 Issue 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;width:150px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:15px;margin-left:10px;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Georgia;font-size: 28px;line-height:24px; color:#FF6600; text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color:brown;\">&#8230;how,<\/span> HOW <b>does no one<\/b> get a<span style=\"color:orange\"> picture of this?<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><!-- the drop cap --> <br \/><span style=\"margin-right:6px;margin-top:5px;float:left;background:khaki;border:1px solid darkkhaki;font-size:80px;line-height:60px;padding-top:2px;padding-right:5px;font-family:times;\">R<\/span>ecently, there was news that dozens of people (by definition that has to be AT LEAST 24 people) saw a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22656172\/\">UFO<\/a>&#8221; in Texas. Observers said that it was a mile long and 1\/2 a mile wide. That&#8217;s&#8230;pretty big. This unleashed the ever-ready stash of UFO information which has been reported around the world for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s think about this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. You saw a UFO? Well hell, let&#8217;s see the pictures or better yet the YouTube video! Wait..what? You didn&#8217;t get any pics?  None!?!?  UFO sightings used to seem believable back when Jethro didn&#8217;t have his Polaroid land camera sitting on the seat next to him in his truck. But today, when there is a camera built into EVERYTHING WE CARRY WITH US, how, HOW does no one get a picture of this?  And, with all the news reports on this, none mentioned the fact that THERE WERE NO PICTURES.  Please!<\/p>\n<p>2. The closest, CLOSEST, solar system to us which is most like ours is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/mystery_monday_031208.html\">Vega<\/a>.  Vega is only, ONLY, 25 light years away from Earth.  This was the system that was referenced in the Carl Sagan movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/contact-themovie.warnerbros.com\/main.html\">Contact<\/a>&#8221; with Jodie Foster a few years back in which life forms contact Earth.  Anyway, does anyone know how far 25 light years is? No? Ok, it&#8217;s only, ONLY, 146,864,728,800,000 miles away. That&#8217;s 146.8 TRILLION miles away. For perspective, consider this. The furthest, FURTHEST, we humans have managed to travel is the 238,855 miles to the moon, and that only took 3 days. So, conceivably, we could travel to Vega in only 1,844,609,434 days, or 5,053,724 years.<\/p>\n<p>3. Obviously, if a UFO were to visit Earth its &#8220;drivers&#8221; would have to be much, MUCH, more advanced than us. They would have to have harnessed technologies that we can&#8217;t even fathom.<\/p>\n<p>4. Finally, if there have been such highly advanced life forms capable of this kind of time travel to reach Earth, why would they try so hard to hide from &#8220;us&#8221; once they get here? Are they afraid that we&#8217;ll &#8220;chase&#8221; them when they try to leave? Maybe they know about the internal combustible engine, the iPhone (why they hide), and that we have virtually mastered gun powder! Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>CONCLUSION: Maybe I&#8217;m a pessimist, but I prefer to believe that I&#8217;m a realist. There has to be life out there somewhere, it just hasn&#8217;t stumbled upon us yet. There was not a UFO in Texas recently, and there have never, NEVER, been UFOs anywhere near Earth. I&#8217;m sorry, I kind of wish that weren&#8217;t the case. But seriously, if something ever does visit us, it will let us know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1335848&#038;loc=en_US\">Subscribe to Midwestern Meditations eMagazine by Email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;how, HOW does no one get a picture of this? Recently, there was news that dozens of people (by definition that has to be AT LEAST 24 people) saw a &#8220;UFO&#8221; in Texas. 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