# How often do you talk to aliens? (not really about aliens) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076 "2021-10-07T14:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/21 "2021-10-08T14:46:22Z")
Extraterrestrials can offer valuable advice to Earthlings. But not in the case of Neil Z. Miller, a prominent antivax author who’s churned out numerous books on the subject, when he’s not communicating with aliens (or helping his daughter to do so). Miller has also authored “Gadzooks! Extraterrestrial Guide to Love, Wisdom and Happiness”. I’d bet however that extraterrestrials who risk the journey to Earth are heavily vaccinated against our dangerous diseases\*, not to mention human stupidity. \*remember _War of the Worlds_. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/22 "2021-10-08T14:51:36Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever done this, but I might have talked to time travellers at least once or twice. Aliens, no, but yes to time travelers. I used to do this when I was a kid. Also, I’d imagine that Laura Ingalls showed up in my time (mid to late 70s), and I’d have to explain things to her. Haven’t had any such chats in decades, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/23 "2021-10-08T15:39:11Z")
On of my all time favorite SDMB threads was on this very topic. # [Do you have recurring fantasies of escorting a historical figure around modern times?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-recurring-fantasies-of-escorting-a-historical-figure-around-modern-times/410626) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/24 "2021-10-08T16:09:32Z")
Believe it or not, I replay “proofs from the book”. Especially elegant proofs of mathematical theorems. Paul Erdös imagined that God had a book of all the most elegant proofs. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/25 "2021-10-08T16:13:40Z")
That’s funny, I’ve done this myself. Usually I’m not talking to Aliens, but someone from the past, as many here have done. There’s a book by Greg Bear, “Songs of Earth and Power,” where he imagines meeting and collaborating with a lot of famous dead people, imagining death as another dimension where they exist for all eternity pretty much as they were when they died. He meets Mozart and Gustav Mahler, among other people. I’ve always wanted to meet them, so this book stuck in my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/26 "2021-10-08T16:26:00Z")
I’ve done the time traveling thing. Except I’m the one that goes back in time and tell famous scientists their own theories before they actually come up with them. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/27 "2021-10-08T16:55:01Z")
I will give lectures/classes on topics that people probably wouldn’t care about. For example, my NFL power ratings spreadsheet, including the history, logic and how to set it up in excel. (the results do end up to be very close to a professional power ratings results - Jeff Sagarin). Or, a lesson on basic economics to \_\_\_\_ to show how illogical his facebook posts are. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/28 "2021-10-08T17:19:59Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > What does your internal monologue do to pass the time? I posted upthread, but I thought of something else. Sometimes, at an uneventful moment, I’ll think to myself, “I wonder what [random famous person] is doing at this very second.” Me, brushing teeth while getting ready for work: “I wonder what the Pope is doing at this very moment? It’s in the afternoon there, I suppose. It’d be funny if he was peeing, and had his dick in his hand at this very second.” ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076/29 "2021-10-08T19:51:52Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > The play was a comedy, and not a particularly highbrow one, with silly characters and catchphrases; so between that and some of the other things I know about him, I suspect Abe Lincoln would really enjoy at least some modern comedy. I’m morally certain that Lincoln would be an _Arrested Development_ fan. “And that…is why you don’t start an insurrection.” Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-talk-to-aliens-not-really-about-aliens/952076.md?page=1)