Lord Noel On Aliens

Whatto! People...

This delightful person wrote in to this infamous Lord Noel Blog....

"Dearest Cuddly Lord Noel,
Perhaps you would be good enough to tell me how I am supposed to believe in Aliens when the Fermi Paradox clearly dispels this belief as unfounded?
Yours
Commander Thorg
(of the 5th Zallaktikan Starfleet)"


"Dear Commander,
Thank you for drawing our attention to the Fermi Paradox, (which was, after all, created following an amusing dare in a canteen queue). It is the perfect example of the modern human condition know colloquially as 'Arrogance', the assumption being that there is no proof of 'Colonisation' anywhere!... and therefore that intelligent life does not exist.
This is almost beyond belief.
Has no-one marvelled at the amazing number of Pyramid cultures that exist in ruins throughout the ancient world?... all of which were created by cultures that reflect belief systems that directly revolve around the myths and legends passed down by mouth?
Stories of 'Gods from the sky' that 'visited us' here on earth?... arriving in 'ships from the sky'... that 'glowed like the sun'? 
There are many good books on this subject but the one I would recommend to you as a good starting point is Wayne Herchel's 'Hidden Records' which should help to awaken any sleeping grey matter you still retain.
People say - where is the evidence? Surely there should be more physical evidence?
But consider this predicament....
We, as far as we are concerned, are the most developed species that has ever existed on earth, but just say for example that a catastrophic event such as a meteor impact happened to us in 19 years time. All of our iphones would instantly become useless, along with all of our computers and their records and everything held on them. The only artifacts we would have to show for our existence would be the mundane props of our everyday existence - our clothing and food preparation equipment.
Everything else would soon be lost; inaccessible to anyone without knowledge of our current technology. The population that survived such an impact will be literally thrown back into the stone age!
How many of us actually possess the ability to produce, for example, simple metal objects from scratch?
Or the technical know-how to provide ourselves with an electrical supply?
Or even the ability to repair any appliances that we already have?
Knowing what we know today we would probably just pass down  a faint remembering to our childrens children that we had of a contest that was once staged many miles away from us involving singers on a thing called a stage who were judged by three leaders and we watched the whole thing through magic boxes in our living rooms! 
After several generations of re-telling, how many people would bother to even remember the shallow and vacuous 'Story of X Factor'?
Even if they did.............


Sorry everyone, Lord Noel here, I've managed to wrestle the keyboard away from my Butler Oscar so normal service will be resumed immediately!...
Now where were we?
Oh yes 'Aliens'!
This important question reminded me that we can't always have what we want in life....
...the other evening I said to my lovely Lady wife that I wanted to have a Van Gogh in the living room...
She just told me to remember to use the tissues.

Tallyho!

Best Wishes - Lord Noel"