Mongie the Kookie sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyestalks. He pressed the bright orange spot on his belly and his bed disappeared. Mongie shook himself and went to his desk. He looked in his reflector and grinned.
“Today is our field trip!” he sang as he twirled his eyestalks happily. His ears swiveled with glee. Mongie blinked the eye in the middle of his head. He did a little jig as he put on his jumpsuit over his purple body with its little orange spot in the middle. The green jumpsuit tightly fit his three legs. He examined himself once more and used his two propeller-like pink tails to propel himself to the living room where his mom stood.
“Mongie dear, your teeth have some Yagi in them. Clean it out.” Mongie obediently pressed the orange spot on his chest, causing the Yagi to disappear instantly.
“Mongie! The bell is gonna ring! Come on!” Mongie’s older sister Kagie chided as she hurried out the door. Mongie accepted a food bag from his mom and flew out the door.
The little Kookie whirled around the planet, Kook. He flew past floating homes and other Kookies walking their pets. He zoomed into his seat a minute before the bell rang. His teacher Ms. Qing sent him a stern look. He flashed Ms. Qing a bright smile. Ms. Qing frowned, but started to speak.
“Young Kookies, today we will be going on field trips to other planets. There is a list of choices over on the board. Line up according to your choice of destination.” All the Kookies hurried over to the list. However, Mongie immediately walked to a line. He knew where he wanted to go. He wanted to go to Earth. The planet with the humans. His classmates picked their planets and walked over to the lines. Mongie was the only one at the Earth line.
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...like slugs, but they can do anything!” One Kookie gushed.
“You know, on Pluto, it’s really cold.” A Kookie flew in happy circles.” The people were nice though!” Another Kookie agreed thoughtfully.
“Never go to the meteorites. There are no living creatures. Also, you get sick from the speed.” A group of dizzy-looking aliens warned the others.
“Mongie! How was your visit to Earth? How were the humans?” Mongie’s best friend, Rican flew up to him.
“Well…” Mongie sat up straighter. “It went like this. So, first, I was mistaken for a supreme general, because I was so smart. Then, I almost got caught by some dangerous foods called potato chips. They can kill! That’s only the least of it…” Mongie recited loftily the story of his arrival on Earth. He exaggerated a lot, but his classmates didn’t care. They loved every bit of his story. Especially the killer potato chips.
physical inabilities, so he decides to teach him to walk. He takes Doodle outside and
During the ball Alma’s father has put together she found something that was meaningful to her, the “solar system”. She has never seen something so exciting and she wanted to be a part of it so“She ran over to the garden wall and cried up to the
Instead of reporting to the classroom that morning for instruction, they were to report immediately to the simulator. They put on their suits and took their seats. They heard the door slam as usual but then lock. Outside Josh could see Mr. Tisdale’s smirky little grin as he stood in the next building behind the soundproof glass as he waved. Loud ear deafening noises were heard and then Josh’s head forced back into his seat with the force of gravity as the rockets fired. He suddenly realized this was not a
himself lay in the bed… Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the
“Where are you going?” The tiny voice beside me was attached to a boy. I wanted him to leave. “Why are you on the wrong side of the road?” I faltered against the wind, pressing my foot hard into the ground, attempting in vain to control my footing. “I can see your wings. Why don’t you fly?”
Can the Earth be the only place in the Universe that harbors life? Most astronomers don't believe this is true. Certain statistics in the Universe provide evidence that living beings may be common place through out the universe, on planets of other stars besides the sun. In this paper I plan to discuss the various viewpoints of those that believe that extraterrestrials exist and have even been visiting Earth, and the viewpoints of skpetics that believe that aliens don't exist and have not been visiting Earth.
Throughout time we have pondered the possibility of life existing beyond earth. Movies, television programs, and novels have been written about extraterrestrial beings. Often these beings bear strong resemblances to human beings, with slight alterations. When imagining what exactly an alien would look like, we are biased to believe that extraterrestrial beings are little green men with antenna's protruding from their head and they fly around the universe in huge spaceships. However, these little green men are figments of our imagination, as true life it has yet to be proven that life does, in fact, exist elsewhere in the universe. Scientists have tried for many years to find extraterrestrial life, unsuccessfully. Yet their work has not been completely in vain. There is evidence that life can and possibly does exist on other planets. Our job is to find direct proof of this hypothesis and to attempt to establish communication with these foreign beings.
Since the 18th century speculation of unearthly life has been brought up by many influential people. One of the founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin, once stated "I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One; rather that as there are many degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many degrees of Beings superior to him”. This quote justifies the fact that even the most prominent people believed in cosmic beings. Further in time, In July 1947, an unidentified flying object crash landed in a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. What military officials discovered was nothing more than the debris of a weather balloon that was being tested. However, people did not seem to fathom the truth and began to investigate what the military did not want the public to know. Bodies of unknown humanoid beings were seized by the military and taken into a secret base for further analysis. Various reasons as to why celestial beings could lurk the universe are being brought upon by today’s modern science committee possibly unlocking an insight onto future life. The first reason as to why extraterrestrial life could perhaps exist is that there is a vast amount of galaxies, stars, planets, and solar systems that humans have not yet discovered. To think that humans, the only civilization on planet earth, are the only living organisms in space would be quite absurd. Furthermore, a second reason as to why extraterrestrials could subsist is that life thrives in the most extreme conditions. This means that whether organisms are in the depths of the ocean, in the midst of the ozone layer, or in the scorching hot temperatures of volcanos; life always finds a way to adapt. However, some may argue that life could not possible coin...
“Yeah,” Billy nodded. “Bring it to the edge and toss it here.” It fell into the water with a heavy splash. Billy pulled the alligator’s head up to his chest, thus freeing his left hand so he could grab the branch. “Now, go back to the others,” he instructed his younger brother. “I don’t want you to see what I’m going to do.”
The day went on smoothly until the crepuscule showed its majestic colors throughout the calm sky. We were playing with a lot of tiny toys, keeping it real in our little imaginary world. We used to bring to life all the cartoon characters that we saw at television, even though we saw them separately, him at home, and me in the archaic coffee shop where I "drove by" to essentially watch the cartoon, sell retail cigarettes, and expect the owner's wife to give me some cookies or an apple.
The thought of infinite space is a scary and exciting thought. The thought that stars, planets, and even suns exist beyond the sights of our strongest telescopes is a very intriguing thought. Some theories suggest parallel universes exist while others suggest that intelligent life is living exactly the way humans on earth live today on far away planets. Perhaps the most frightening and yet thrilling thought of all is the thought of extraterrestrial life amongst the stars, visiting earth, and every so often, being spotted or caught on camera. These interactions are considered extremely rare and witnesses to the events refer to themselves as lucky. Religions have even been created at the thought of aliens. The search for
was an alien who had just landed on planet Earth. I thought to myself, ‘I should
Cohen, Daniel. The Ancient Visitors: Have Creatures from Other Planets Ever Lived On Earth? Garden City, NY: Double & Comp., Inc., 1976. Print.
...ave me a bright pink gift bag stuffed with shiny silver tissue paper to open. Inside was a shirt that read “I’M A BIG SISTER!” I put the sister shirt on and saw everything differently. “Today marks an important day and you’re going to hold your brother even though you’re nervous, you’re going take responsibility and be the best caring, loving sister you can be”, I said silently to myself.
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