WHO ELSE???

You are about to begin reading my new post, WHO ELSE!  Chances are you have mentioned "mars" not once not twice but many atime. You even know that Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the Moon's surface. Not long ago, you were taught that Venus is in position two of the solar system from the Sun and that it's the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. Is that all?


It is common place to think and talk about the universe as a great deal of planets among other lifeless objects. Are these merely empty lonely worlds with no one but rock, sand and dust except the handful humans on earth? Does anyone walk out there too?
Astro-scientists tell of high prospects of a tremendous diversity of life in this universe somewhere far beyond this earth. They contemplate a range of simple micro-organisms to highly complex, extra-ordinarily intelligent and civilised creatures that are more superior to the earthly human species. Ever imagined that?

In october 2015, Jason Wright and his colleague Andrew siemeon, astronomers from Penn state university reported that KIC 8462852, a peculiar star just above the Milky Way may be harbouring solar panel-like "megastructures" that could point to an advanced technological civilisation.
 "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider but this looked like something you expect an alien civilisation to build...," said Mr Wright speaking to The Atlantic. Could this draw us closer to ansewring the question, Who Else?

In H.G wells's fictional novel, War of the Worlds published in 1898, he wrote, "...Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glittering tentacles swinging and rattling about its strange body..." He was imagining green Martians (fictional natives of Mars) attacking, shelling and destroying our earth. In 1938, forty years later as an adaptation from that scene, a play aired on a local radio station that New Jersey had come under attack done in style of a live news broadcast.

Orson Welles (arms raised) rehearses his radio depiction of H.G.Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds.

The panic and confusion this broadcast caused around the US is gesture that we deny that we are a lonely people. Somewhere out there, there could be a brother and sister. Sad is how we often think of them as enemies of man. surely am yet to come across a piece that talks of aliens attacking and killing lizards or mosquitoes. we seem to hate and fear who we don't know yet. Whether they see and watch over our backs or are as green abouts us as we are about them remains a serious point of contention.

Again, that Wright and Siemeon might have observed giant solar panels no known man from earth sent close to KIC 8462852 adds more light to the mission. If its anything to go by, then it's hightime you polished your visiting boots. You just got yourself a relative or two out there to check on. Till then, SAFE JOURNEY!