Too much entropy. Disorder on a global scale. The universe, we believe, prefers order. It might have grown tired of waiting for our tiny part of it to figure things out and sent some clues to help restore some sense of order. I think they may have finally lost patience with us. I mean, time may be relative and all, but even the universe apparently has its limits. Enough is enough, you know?
What could the message possibly be? Maybe, take a break from killing each other. Stop polluting your air and water. Learn to live with all forms of life so you don't kill yourselves with disease. Share your food. Educate your young people. Live by the rules your religions profess. Love and respect one another. We are all in this together.
The message and the means to lowering the entropy may well have been contained in one or all of the monoliths, but we couldn't decipher it. Or not. The monoliths may simply have been planted to get our attention off the chaos we have caused. But by whom?
I live in an area known as the UFO capital of the Northeast. Pine Bush, N.Y. I know no one has reported seeing any UFOs in connection with any of the monoliths, but who says extraterrestrials have to travel only in ways that we earthlings can imagine. Maybe they don't need rockets to move through time and space. Maybe they look like us. Maybe they're not green. Who knows? In any event, I wouldn't mind seeing one of these monoliths appear in our neighborhood. Smack dab in the middle of Main Street in front of Pudgy's' pizzeria. I can pretty much guarantee there wouldn't be a great rush to tear it down and cart it off to who knows where. Some people around here are serious about learning about intelligent life not of this planet.
We earthlings are predictably set in our ways of thinking of many things, including extraterrestrial intelligence. Little green men and UFOs. They don't use rivets. Or stainless steel. But why not? How do we know? Yes, maybe these really were just clever pranks by an international conspiracy of artists. Maybe we should then thank them for reminding us of our infinitesimal place in the universe and how we're destroying it. And, maybe we should try to think about where the idea for such a conspiracy came from in the first place. Maybe Arecibo wasn't the only way to receive messages from elsewhere. Maybe the universe has other ways of communicating. Maybe there's a message right before our eyes.
Never mind out there; maybe they're here already.
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Bob Gaydos is artist-in-residence at zestoforange.com.
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