[amorphous]

Additional images and a video at link.

[plain talk]

How do I know we haven’t been visited by aliens?

The human race has not been wiped out.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t think outer space people are visiting; but I guess Bean doesn’t believe in the sense of a ‘Prime Directive’...

[aragona]

What a lame theory!! How did this qualify as news. Just click bait.

[Olog-hai]

“I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth,” Mr. Bean told news.com.au from his home in Houston, Texas.

“One of reasons I don’t believe they have been here is that civilizations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly — like Earth, which is better than it used to be — so they would have landed and said ‘we come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here’s the gadget we put on a person’s chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it’. Just like some day, say 1,000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that’s what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.” …

I guess a part of Mr. Bean’s mind did not return to earth with him.

[KarlInOhio]

“One of reasons I don’t believe they have been here is that civilisations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly — like Earth, which is better than it used to be — so they would have landed and said ‘we come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here’s the gadget we put on a person’s chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it’.

There's also the problem that any alien life would be 1000 times more different from us genetically than we are from a sponge or a bacterium.

And what happens when their "cure" is to sterilize anyone who has or whose reasonably near family members have gotten cancer to try to eliminate susceptibility to cancer from the species.

[DBrow]

Just like Pizzaro gave plumbing and steel to the Incas.

[Kickass Conservative]

If you go our there an actually find “Life”, it’s not a good idea to bring it back for Study. Never trust an “Alien”.

[real saxophonist]

My dream house would have a room with nothing but Alan Bean originals.

[poconopundit]

Thanks, amorphous. It was a good read...

[Yaelle]

"I'm lying to the media. They've been here. They've been to my house."

[Slyfox]

I once walked through his old house that his ex-wife was selling. She had some interesting memorabilia hanging on the walls from his trip to the moon.

[BradyLS]

Does he walk on his finished paintings with moon-boots or something? They seem to have tread marks all over them. The one on the right especially!

[mrsmith]

I thought he was going to say: “Because they told me!”
Darn.

[Fiddlstix]

[Sequoyah101]

Let me guess, because they went to the crapitol and found there is no intelligent life here?

[mrsmith]

A great read! Interesting fellow (well, of course.).

[P.O.E.]

[DannyTN]

We were deemed mentally ill and dangerous by the Galactic Council.

They will re-evaluate us in about 60,000 years.

[DennisR]

I see aliens every day here in USSR-WA. They are also known as Democrats!

[cgbg]

Bean is correct. Aliens have not visited Earth.

They were here first. :-)