Aliens

Aliens have been a part of popular culture long before movies such as E.T. was written and long since its debut in theaters. Our fascination with creatures from other planets is reflected in books, movies, and television; it's also evident in our real efforts to find life elsewhere in the universe.

Spotting Flying Saucers is so 1950s trend where every mid westerner spotted a weird looking alien ship or two. So many pictures of these are now considered to be hoax or wait a minute is it really a hoax? We want to believe the Govt is hiding something very confidential about the extra terrestrial life form and their technology, we think all the movies coming in that light is to be true.

Our famous story tellers depicted some of the aliens as green, powerful, technically very savvy that is not yet available to humans etc. Some considered and told us that they are our friends (eg: ET), some told us that they would look like creatures that are very vicious (eg: Alien series) and ofcourse some are capable of creating crop circles and threatened by simply water (eg: Night Shyamalan's Signs). Some latest movies such as: District 9 even picturized them as bugs (prawn look alikes, just that they choose to come to a different place than USA). We were also shown movies such as Batteries Not Included with mechanical form of aliens and TV Shows such as X-Files. Even movies such as Men In Black where the world (why do all the aliens some end up in USA in cities such as New York, LA etc.) was threatened by the aliens and their gigantic ship. It's almost became part of our Hollywood movies, we almost accept them for the face value of it.

Most of all I liked the alien depiction in James Cameron's Avatar. They were shown as skinny, muscular, and tall dark skinned people on the planet called Pandora. As much as they are aliens to us, they considered the human race as Sky Riders. As much as we are used to be threatened by aliens who come to earth on spaceship and try to create havoc, they were shown as peace loving, nature loving people. End of the movie I almost joined their team by rejecting our own human race who is greedy, power/war mongers in the movie.

We love the word Alien so much we even call the people who become naturalized to USA as Resident Aliens. In some cases, we also treat them like Aliens...

Note: Really, there are lot of similarities of war and power display in some parts of the world by countries for either advancing their religion, or hatred for others, or for grabbing the natural resources, sounds like we as human race is failing to live together in harmony and if some aliens drift away in space and come from some other planet wouldn't want anything to do with us on the planet earth. We need help!