Jeff Key : Asteroids, Solar Storms and UFO's

Just when you thought it was safe to venture out again, scientists are fueling our collective anxiety with talk of the Earth being hit by an asteroid, solar flares, or being consumed by a black hole. And that’s before mentioning that the Air Force recently shot down three UFO’s that might have been looking for a place to land.

Like the deadly virus mutations circulating the globe the threats from outer space are being examined in equal detail by the fine-tuned eye of the James Webb telescope that can peer back 13.6 billion light years to the formation of the first stars and galaxies.

Except for the recent slipping of tectonic plates the Earth has calmed down after a hot, fire-scorched summer filled with drought, rampaging floods and intense hurricanes.

But what if we were suddenly confronted by life forces from another galaxy? Would the nations of the world be able to hammer out a strategy to save humankind or would they fall back on their countries’ military might and maneuver to make a deal with the aliens to control the planet?

Don’t spit out your coffee yet……there is about a 1-in-400,000,000 chance of any of these celestial bodies hitting the Earth…..and the last sighting of a lumbering, orange-haired alien was at the White House where it was seen dazed and confused while tweeting “It’s all a big lie.”

As we continue to probe outer space in search of answers to these questions it might be time to contemplate just how small and insignificant we are in the grand scale of the cosmos.

As Arthur Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, said, “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”