2184

Is being abducted by aliens really that different than going to Heaven? In both cases, you slip the surly bonds of earth and leave your careworn life behind. No job to go to; no bills to pay. I mean, unless the aliens return you for the deposit. (They probed you for intelligence and found nothing. Hey! That's not where I keep my brain!)  Like the power company is going to believe you were late making your payment because you had a close encounter that took you on a joy ride around the belt of Orion...

Huh. What if Jesus was an alien?

What if Jesus was the earthly ambassador of a race of beneficient alien beings who only wanted to save the planet from its seemingly inevitable self-destruction in the year 2184? Those aliens would be way better than the Tom Cruise aliens or the Will Smith aliens but it hardly seems realistic. Also, it doesn't look like it worked. Wasn't there even one alien leader arguing for E.T. Jesus to use his laser-beam eyes to take out a few Roman legions, just to let everyone know who's boss here? I mean, as a species, we aren't exactly known for our ability to pick up the subtle hint. A half a million years of evolution and we are still literally playing with fire.

What if the Milky Way - and all the stars and planets and creatures in it - is the result of an alien experiment gone horribly off the rails and we're all just players in a cautionary tale on a galactic theater in the round scale? Scientists have a bad habit of doing things just to see what happens (and what happens is usually not so good); re-animating the dead using aftermarket parts, building atomic bombs leading to giant hypoglycemic ants and mutant fire-breathing dinosaurs, creating giant tarantulas, genetically-engineering Mako sharks to cure Alzheimer's, using protomatter in the Genesis device, controlling the world's weather until you lose control of the machine that controls the world's weather... 

Would alien scientists be so different? 

So they made a galaxy and maybe they miscalculated exactly where all the black holes should go. Maybe that asteroid was never supposed to kill all the dinosaurs and intelligent 8-foot tall chickens were supposed to inherit the earth…

At this point, maybe the alien scientists are just trying to limit the blast radius from whatever it is that happens in 2184.

Note to self: Get cryogenically frozen with a note to "Wake Me in 2183." 

I always wanted to go out with a bang.