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ARE SPACE ALIENS COMING TO DESTROY US?

By Arthur Zulu

The cinema hall was packed full. The audience cheered and laughed at show. Well, for one thing, it was fiction for they know that such thing is impossible in real life. After all, here they are, seated without any invading men from space.

But wait a minute. Space invaders? Yes, call them ET’s, little green men, or any other name. That cinema show may be for real. Because some people believe that one fateful day, extraterrestrials will seize earth.

Come to think of it. In history of civilization when has nations not been at each other’s throat? From ancient to modern times. And with sophisticated weapons. In end, some nations have been wiped out, while others have emerged. Show me Babylon. Show me Carthage. Or show me Songhai.

So what makes you think that some blood-thirsty space men are not desperately searching for us. To make prisoners. Keep as pets. Or destroy!

That is a chilling thing. As chilling as crusades. Or Jihads. Or world wars. Or war against terrorists.

Now, just in case you think that earth is only place where living creatures are playing around, you had better think twice. For there could be life out there in Mars. Or Europa, Jupiter’s moon. Or elsewhere for that matter.

Why shouldn’t there be? The Milky Way alone has about 100 billion stars. Imagine that number. How can anyone think that only lucky number is earth. Could there not be more winning tickets? Perhaps one?

And suppose we work on ratio of one earth for one Galaxy. What about other 100 billion galaxies in universe? Could there not be at least ten more earths?

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WILL A NUCLEAR “ARMAGEDDON BE THE LAST WAR? (PART 2)

By Arthur Zulu

Let’s say that a full nuclear conflagration is going on right now at North Pole. And let’s suppose you are somewhere in South Pole.

Although you are in antipodes -- far away from scene of nuclear war, you will not escape blast, fire, and radiation. You will be so uncomfortable that you will suddenly find yourself dancing to tune of an maginary symphony.

Now, let’s shift goal post of nuclear action half way around world from artic to equator. Do you think that you will still be dancing?

Imagine nukes now exploding and flying around down under in Antarctica. What will be your fate? Or fate of smallest living things? Or what do you think fire and heat will be doing to ice? Well, your guess is as good as mine.

Thousands in Asia and Europe who suffered nuclear inter when nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Russia leaked accidentally can give you an introductory lesson on nuclear crisis. But lecture may not be complete because those who died from leakage, and who were buried in raised sealed metal graves (to prevent contamination), will not be around to give you postscript.

Now, look at this parade of weapons of mass destruction --5,000 nuclear weapons on hair - trigger alert, 4,000 intercontinental ballistic missiles (2,000 on either side of Atlantic) and 1,000 submarine ballistic missiles, all set, to wreak havoc, at any time!

But United States and Russia are not only countries having these instruments of death. Never mind that weapons have been reduced (new ones are added), and never mind that they have agreed not to aim missiles at each other (it can be reloaded within seconds).

The fact is that apart from traditional five nuclear club nations -- The United States, Russia, Britain, France and China, some rogue states -- Iran, Iraq and North Korea are in possession of deadly weapons. And these rogue states -- axis of evil (apologies to George Bush Jr.) cannot be trusted, (no wonder U.S. has donned a nuclear umbrella to catch falling “evil” missiles).