[beaver fever]

I you had the choice of visiting Watsonville CA or staying home what would you do?

An alien monitoring the cultural and technological development on planet Watsonville would probably decide the trip wasn't worth the time and resources required. A visit to planet Watsonville may even be dangerous.

So what about accidental visits to Watsonville?

In 1980 I accidentally landed on this strange planet on my way to an even stranger world called San Francisco. I rented a motel room from a suspicious and well armed night clerk. The shower in my room was covered from floor to ceiling with a greyish green fungus half an inch thick. I guessed that local food stuffs were similarly infected and chose to consume only those provisions I brought with me. The next day I left the planet, taking great pains to avoid any further contact with native species both plant and animal. Since the encounter I have not returned to Watsonville and studiously avoid all exits off I-90 even for precious fuel.

In short the Fermi Paradox is false. It is not at all paradoxical that an alien civilization from another planet with sufficient technology and knowledge of Earth would chose not to contact us. The truth is we probably scare the crap out of them.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Perhaps the Voyager spacecraft should be on the lookout for robotic game wardens that are programmed to destroy any thing leaving our solar system ;^).