Why Aliens Don't Talk to Us

I saw this funny facebook page name, but it consists of one posting in 2013.  That's too bad.  It's a great question. How common and far-ranging is this question as a topic and trend? Our first example comes from 2018 with coverage in the Huffington Post of Senator John Kennedy (R-La.):  Senator Says 'Aliens Won't Talk to Us Because We Can't Govern - They look at all of this stuff, and they go, ‘These people ― they’re 13-year-olds.' That was over Trump's 'shithole countries' reference. Senator Kennedy compared the Senate’s recent nastiness to the notoriously sensational daytime television program “The Jerry Springer Show,” and facetiously posited that it was impairing intergalactic relations.   This might be a widely held sentiment.  A recent Vox article title is 'We regret to inform you that aliens are probably not trying to talk to us'. It is a more serious article that looks at life in the galaxy theories. "It’s weird, given that the universe is so vast, that we seem to be alone in it. Physicist Enrico Fermi was the first to spell out this dilemma, and it’s named after him: the Fermi paradox. The paradox is that, under some reasonable assumptions about how often life originates and reaches technological sophistication, we should be able to detect signs of thousands or millions of other civilizations. And yet we haven’t. Recent investigations suggest that the paradox may have a mundane resolution — under more accurate assumptions about how life originates, we are very plausibly alone... The disagreement between researchers who think that advanced civilizations must be extremely rare, and those who think that they’re common, is a fairly substantive one. For one thing, if advanced civilizations are common, then why can’t we see them?" So we regular people are onto this question too - more than 3.5 million people expressed interest in attending a facebook event named 'Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us.' Area 51 is the military test area in Nevada associated with UFO conspiracy theories.  The September 2019 event was dubbed Alienstock.  There were many articles with concerns about safety, etc but the festival took place at the end of September.  The coverage from TIME.com is  HERE with pictures of people dancing in their silver space suits. Today's image of Beth Powell's garden asks us to choose a door.

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