Narrating Personal Interest: Why I Chose This Topic

When I was at school science and astronomy was my favorite subject. I would look up at the sky and be fascinated by what was out there. Were there just planets and stars, or was their life out there too? Is there another planet just like ours, with people like us, looking up into their sky wondering the same thing?

The major problem when I was a kid was that when I pondered the fact that there may be life out there, this also scared me. My cousin was even more fascinated by the paranormal and swore black and blue that she had seen aliens out her bedroom window one night. Just a couple of years ago she announced that her and her mother had been driving in the local area and had come across a UFO. She used to scare my brother and me half to death. I have never been sure if she played on this fact or if she was in fact serious. When I was in high school the book "Communion" had been just been released and I saw the author being interviewed on a current affairs show. It was based on the supposed true story of alien abduction. I couldn't sleep for weeks. I have come across the book many times since, but have been unable to bring myself to read it for the same reason. I did enjoy watching the TV show The X-Files and watched this religiously every week.

I do believe there is life out there but there are many different theories. The first is it may just be microorganisms. These are still classified as life. Any planet that has any signs of water having existed previously could hold life. Some scientists believe that humans evolved from bacteria. Another theory is that aliens are more intelligent beings from the future. They may just be like us, but more advanced. Or they may just be another form of life altogether.

Now with more advanced technology, scientists are delving further into the universe and finding more galaxies far, far and away. I think that their research is very under-rated and we are lucky to see a small piece in the paper written about these new discoveries. I also think that there is more that the government knows and is covering up. It is all very X-Files. My aim for this blog is to keep my readers up-to-date with these discoveries in our universe and those in that beyond…