Hey, I actually wish there were aliens. Wouldn’t that be great? That would be terribly interesting. This planet is so boring. Unfortunately, and it is painfully obviously true, we have not been visited. I have never in all my life seen one piece of conclusive evidence to change my mind. Absolutely nothing.
One of these days, I fully expect them to roll out an ersatz second coming of Jesus, aliens, the big praying mantis… Or something. And of course, whatever it is they roll out created in the fever swamp of some Larry Ellison AI center will tell us we y’all need to obey the government and stop eating meat and driving our cars or something.
I’m with you. I wish flying saucers would get here. But I’m afraid all of this came out of 1950s sci-fi, and letting go is really hard.