The Movie Makes One Think

Steven Spielberg is a master.

Not every movie made by Spielberg has been a blockbuster, but his rate of success has been nothing short of phenomenal.

Spielberg single-handedly took the dirty, dusty, and boring image of an archaeologist and made becoming one adventurous. He made people laugh at the adventures of a little alien being, and then most cry as it appeared the little creature had died.

Spielberg made it appear plausible that DNA found in amber could be used to bring dinosaurs back to life and the danger of doing so if it ever can be done. He also made people scared to swim in ocean water and immortalized a short musical score that remains instantly recognizable over 50 years later.

He has done it again with Disclosure Day.

This column does not urge you to spend your hard-earned money to watch the movie, or provide any spoilers about the movie. This columnist is not receiving a kickback from Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, or anyone connected to the movie but any of them wanting to buy a cup of coffee for this columnist would be welcome.

That said, Disclosure Day has already proven incredibly popular as the day this is being written, June 27, it had already reportedly grossed $175 million worldwide. It is a throwback to creative storytelling without the need for gratuitous sex or gratuitous violence. Those looking for blood and gore will have to look elsewhere.

But it does leave one thinking: What if this were true?

“IN THE beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

Our small Solar System is located in the Milky Way galaxy, about 26,000 light-years from its galactic center. The entire Milky Way galaxy is estimated to be about 100,000 light-years in diameter and about 30,000 light-years thick in the center.

The part of the universe that is known stretches about 93 billion light-years in diameter. How large it might be is unknown and it might stretch into infinity.

That’s a lot of incomprehensible numbers but consider just one more.

Just the Milky War galaxy is estimated to have 100 to 400 billion stars and the number of planets simply cannot be estimated using current technology. However, the Milky Way galaxy is just one of many galaxies in the Universe, how many galaxies might exist is also unknown.

It is much easier to believe that somewhere out there in the vastness of space there is intelligent life — much easier than believing we are alone in that same vastness.

It stands to reason that if there is life out there, then from a technological perspective some of it will be well ahead of us, and some will be behind us. Alien species that have conquered long-distance space travel would likely have some interest in observing developing species – as repeatedly noted in Star Trek — just as we search for signs of present or past life on our neighboring planets and their moons.

This leads us to reported sightings of UFOs by some very reputable people and interesting evidence that is coming to light as official government documents are declassified and released to the public.

HOW many of you believe that if an alien species had been discovered on Earth, the government would reveal everything?

How many of you believe that if an alien species had been discovered on Earth, the government would do everything possible to keep that knowledge classified and away from the public?

The latter question is the theme that Disclosure Day is built around.

Your answer indicates how much trust you have in our government.

That’s my opinion.

Andy Kober can be reached at andykober@hotmail.com