Contact With Extra-Terrestrials
Contact with Extra-Terrestrials?
By Elton Camp
Our galaxy is an enormous place
Extends into the depths of space
Even a “nearby” star is so far
Trip there physics does bebar
Even at light’s amazing speed
Full four years we would need
Spaceship can never go that fast
So many decades trip would last
Would make hard the rule
To take along enough fuel
Also would be incredible feat
To carry along enough to eat
If on the way, vessel needs repair
Not a single soul will ever be there
Own mending you must try
Not good enough? You die.
Really, to it is no need to go.
Has no planets, experts know
It is true many planets have been found
Outside our own solar system’s bound
Most are nothing but a gassy ball
Can’t support any human life at all
Few are found with solid crust
But are dry, hot covered by dust
Perhaps a place like Earth is there
But we have not a clue as to where
Naught to put us right on the track
To find needle in cosmic haystack
SETI has listened well for many a year
Not a single intelligent signal to hear
Does it mean nobody is out there?
Or to make contact they don’t care?
Maybe aliens are more advanced than we.
Have found some way our Earth to see.
Discovered just how they can stay alive
While exceeding light with warp drive
If space is curved like they say,
Wormholes may show the way
If find there some cosmic kink,
Travel through space in a wink
Why in space-time should they slip?
What here could be worth the trip?
Why would they come so very far
To view a planet of hate and war?
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2010
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