2010-05-27 / Sam Bari  You can’t beat a system you can’t
understand  Where have all the space guys gone? By Sam Bari
Occasionally, I like to write about space guys. You know – the
extraterrestrial visitors that fly around and hover over our
little planet now and again. Some call them UFOs because they
have unlicensed spacecraft and they don’t register flight plans.
Most of us assume that they come from advanced civilizations,
which is probably true. Nonetheless, many wonder why they don’t
land and introduce themselves. Some suspect that they might have
ill intent.  I have a tendency to be more optimistic. Not that
I’m an authority on the subject, but logic tells me that space
guys are hesitant to establish relations with earthlings because
they find life on Earth a bit daunting.  As civilizations go, we
aren’t very civilized.  History tells us that we’ve always been
at war, killing each other because our ideologies differ. We’ve
polluted, plundered and ruined our planet, and now we’re making
efforts to expa