Being a real aficionado of SciFi and all the science explored by those with imagination what if people were the size of ants and all other life forms on earth were reduced to the same proportionate size; "The Incredible Shrinking Man," but with the spiders also of proportionate relative size. At present our planet is being stressed because of the lack of concern for our environment, and with the combination of excess consumption and lack of birth control there is genuine concern over how many mouths can be fed long term. As it is half the world does not get enough to eat. Ah, but if we were the size of ants…

It’s not that farfetched when you consider a human being begins with a single cell, this tiny, microscopic entity containing all the information needed to build either a human being or an elephant. Nor, as computers are beginning to evidence does mass equal intelligence. While physical animal brains at present may require mass, who is to say an equal intelligence to that of a human may not be placed in a brain the size that of an ant’s.

Perhaps those who believe in UFOs and little green men are not thinking in the correct proportions. The circumstantial evidence to me is space aliens exist and UFOs are real. I’ve had my own experiences with UFOs and other inexplicable sightings, and while not yet having been abducted, nevertheless I’m willing to credit some experiences recounted by others of "close encounters." We have a broad field labeled Parapsychology with its kin Paranormal or Psi, not all of this having to do with Tarot Cards, Ouija Boards or crystal balls.

Maybe "visitors" are found in stone and other artifacts declaring the truth of such, and maybe the explanation for the Sphinx and the great pyramids is to be found from alien intelligences. Perhaps Atlantis was real and the remains may yet be discovered. However, as some scientists have pointed out interplanetary travel is difficult for our own science, but intergalactic travel is far beyond anything on the drawing board. Within imagination there exists the possibility of Einstein’s "spooky communication at a distance" by which the tachyon is not limited by any constraints of our known physics, and if the tachyon why not aliens provided they have mastered the science enabling them to travel at the speed of imagination, the speed of a thought without any of the physical constraints of time or mechanical devices; a case of "to think to be there is to be there- Instantaneously."

But if such intergalactic or interstellar travel were possible for aliens, the means of doing so using mechanical devices like flying saucers poses a conundrum. How would such a means of instantaneous travel as suggested incorporate any mechanical devices? Perhaps they were/are not needed. What if there exists a universal consciousness giving birth to lesser entities finding planets throughout the universe amicable to life? The stars are scattered, broadcast throughout the universe like the sower sowing seed, and solar systems are formed that allow of the physical life forms we know on earth.

If the earliest progenitors of life on earth were microbial why not the earliest intelligences on earth, in which case aliens the size of ants suggests itself to the imagination. What is the Empire State Building compared to the size of a person? See the captain of a super jumbo airliner standing next to it, or the captain on the bridge of a huge ocean going liner; such puny creatures, yet capable of building such huge structures. In watching the construction of such magnificent, huge structures how can you not think of a bunch of tiny ants scurrying busily about each one contributing their own tiny bit to the completed structure; each "ant" putting its own small piece of stone or metal in its proper place.

I’ve had the experience of sitting in the pilot’s seat of huge cargo aircraft. You sit there in this huge monolith of metal three stories off the ground, contemplating the mental adjustment it takes for a tiny "ant" to presume firing up the huge engines, racing down the runway and the tiny ant at the controls using only his puny hands lifting this metal leviathan into the air! The captain of an aircraft carrier, here is an ant moving this behemoth with the touch of fingers and hands, such a huge, monolithic structure put together by a host of other ants using their fingers and hands.

If aliens have put together such structures here on earth using only their intelligence and tiny hands, aliens that are easily hidden by their diminutive size from human eyes, perhaps giving rise to the fables surrounding fairies and other like creatures, perhaps abiding under the oceans or other large bodies of water, who can say? Sasquatch sightings are often reported, but what of very tiny, diminutive alien beings? It may be they constructed their UFOs here on earth, that they need such things to carry out the physical nature of their purposes, whatever these may be. After all, "Donovan’s Brain" had to have human instrumentality in order to accomplish what the brain devised, but was physically incapable of doing. The intellect still needs human, or other physical instrumentality.

Gremlins were popular during WWII, and I still laugh at the Bugs Bunny cartoon, Bugs doing battle with a gremlin. But what if the stories have a basis in fact? Superior intelligence far beyond our human intelligence must, if believed, be capable of things beyond even our imagination. But if we suppose even such superior intelligence to need physical means of accomplishing its purposes then diminutive aliens, "fairies" and "gremlins" may not be as farfetched as many suppose, and even angels and demons may find a place in such speculation.

Now I grant I am a great fan of X-Files kind of speculation. But during my decades of life I have witnessed what cannot be called other than lunacy prevailing throughout the world, lunatic leaders leading lunatics compounding the lunacy. The world faces nuclear annihilation because of such lunacy. Unlike ants, the human species seems more dedicated to its destruction and the destruction of our environment than preserving our species and building according to need rather than consuming with no thought of the future. In the face of this lunacy, should we accord ants more intelligence than human beings? Or, is it a matter of efficiency of size dictating lesser needs? To be sure, ants war on each other; and perhaps in this exhibit much of human traits.

To preserve our species some futurists are suggesting human DNA be shot into space with the hope it may find some suitable planet and begin the reproductive process, peopling another planet. This we know, there are too many "ants" capable of unleashing monstrous horrors of destruction far out of proportion to their diminutive size. There are too many human "ants" with egos far out of proportion to their size willing to visit nuclear annihilation upon planet earth. But perhaps "fairies" may yet come to our rescue. After all, if diminutive aliens do exist here it may be that it would be in their interest to preserve the earth.

While my "conservative" credentials are in tatters because of my advocating the legalization of prostitution, marijuana, euthanasia, my opposition to the death penalty but not opposing abortion, I am still a supporter of the Second Amendment and believe every law abiding American citizen of age should be able to own and carry a gun legally. I believe America must have secure borders, all illegal aliens should be expelled and English made our nation language by law; that the government ceases at once to print ballots in foreign tongues and do away with making instant citizens of the babies born to illegal aliens. I own America as a Christian nation and our debt to the Bible. And, I also believe in Intelligent Design. But as readers know it is not ID in the theological sense, but allowing of the kind of speculation such as that just offered.

One thing is certain; if I had to put my money on one or the other, between diminutive space aliens saving the earth and politicians my money would be on the little green men. Given the direction leaders are taking the world small wonder I incline to believe in fairies and things that go bump in the night.

(If anyone sees this post in italics, please let me know. One reader has told me it is coming up on their screen in italics).