{"id":2799,"date":"2021-10-20T17:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T21:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T15:27:11","slug":"alien-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Alien Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Alien Nation<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the dictionary: an alien is defined as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i> <\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a hypothetical or fictional being from another world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, as in nature.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Note that based on the first two definitions, there are two trains of thought. Those real entities that come from other countries and those so-called fictional entities that come from other worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I consider myself far from fictional; I am real, I exist, despite the fact that I do come from another world. Time to revise your definitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you earthlings would have spent as much time exploring their closest planet in the solar system, the one named after their goddess of love, rather than that funky red one named after a god of war, they might have realized not only that we do exist, but that we\u2019re the better of the two. I mean, you claim you want to \u201cMake love, not war\u201d but you are always focused on war.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, I will agree that our planet seems much less adaptable to human existence. Mean temperatures of 900\u00ba F are a little off-putting, but the -81\u00ba F on Mars is no picnic either. Our planet is closer to the sun than Earth so that we can generate a lot more solar energy than Earth or Mars can. No fossil fuels here. You should look at an atmosphere of mostly carbon dioxide as a plus. What you don\u2019t realize is the abundance of plants that we can grow there. Remember, plants need carbon dioxide to produce food and oxygen. Though we spend most of our time underground, our gardens and fields are a vegetarian paradise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is said that our planet rotates retrograde (backward) compared to all the others. Did you ever think that maybe we\u2019re the ones that got it right and all the other planets actually are rotating backward? Ours is unique. Who really cares which way you rotate? Our year is only 225 earth days long; meaning we can live to a much older age than the people on earth in the same period of time. Most of you spend ? of your day at work. Our workday is an infinitesimal part of our day compared to yours. Granted, our day (243 earth days) is longer than not only your day but our year; but who\u2019s counting. When we get days off, trust me, it lasts a long time and is certainly worth it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My exothermic skin was created for me to make it possible to survive on your planet. It would also help you survive on Venus should we choose to share our technology with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve been here on earth for 71 of your Earth years, just observing and reporting back to Venus with my opinion as to whether it is worth officially contacting you, rather than waiting for you to contact us.\u00a0 You should be aware, it\u2019s not looking good for that collaboration. There are plenty more of us Venusian observers here that concur. Your planet really doesn\u2019t learn from its own history. You still have wars; you still can\u2019t agree to work together to live in peace and harmony; you can\u2019t even come together and try to help each other when people are sick and dying. Besides, I believe you are actually trying to make your planet like Mars the way you are squandering resources and not doing much to save your environment as one world. On Venus, maintaining our environment is a high priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ve got a long way to go and time is running out if you truly want to go where no one has gone before; in a positive direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It really is up to you. If that concept seems alien* to you then I wish you good luck with your future. I\u2019ll still be here. Maybe the next inhabitants of Earth will be different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Venusian.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2800\" src=\"http:\/\/hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Venusian-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Venusian-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Venusian-1024x689.png 1024w, http:\/\/hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Venusian-768x517.png 768w, http:\/\/hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Venusian.png 1406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*the third definition of alien<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien Nation According to the dictionary: an alien is defined as: a foreigner, especially one who is not a naturalized citizen of the country where they are living.\u00a0 a hypothetical or fictional being from another world.\u00a0\u00a0 Dissimilar, inconsistent, or opposed, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=2799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[342,343,177],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-stories","category-story-writing","tag-space","tag-venus","tag-writing-prompt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}