Bewildered...

[adz]

...its just another slow Friday morning at work and I was pondering the phrase used by many comical aliens, "Greetings, Earthling...", now my thinking is this, why would an alien, from another world, refer to us as Earthling, when the name Earth was derived by us? The chance of another distant planet using the name Earth for this piece of rock we call home is so slim its damn near invisible. Well thats my thoughts, anyone else care to shed some light on this now controversial topic?

[adz]

blobrana wrote:
Like a predator stalking their prey…
No one would have believed in the early years of the twenty-first century that our world was being watched by intelligences greater than our own.
 That as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they observed - and studied.
With infinite complacency, (wo)men went to and fro about the globe, confident of their empire over this world.
Yet, across the gulf of space, intellects vast, and cool, and unsympathetic regarded our planet with envious eyes... and slowly, and surely, drew their plans against us.

So what your saying is, through distant observation and covert reconnaissance, they learnt that our name for our planet was Earth, intriguing...

[adz]

No, my good man, you're doing it all wrong. You should be planning things by now. Have you not placed your order yet?

I think I'll order the machete too and wait in the shadows for the nurses to finish their shift tonight. Yep, it's Friday the 13th and you have to give at least one person a fright tonight.

Hmmm, the Jason masks look pretty cool, might be able to give the missus a scare or something :lol: