If aliens exist we might not be smart enough to find them
Donald Trump doesn’t like aliens much. That was apparent in recent weeks when his administration launched Voice, a hotline to encourage ‘Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement’ to out illegal aliens and report criminal immigrants. Given the xenophobia-promoting nature of that endeavour, it was poetic justice indeed when the lines were flooded with calls detailing fake sightings of aliens of the extra-terrestrial rather than the criminal kind.
As an exercise in popular resistance activism, such a response mirrored a seemingly insatiable public appetite for evidence of otherworldly life.
