With All Due Respect to Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Mark Ervin One of the most astonishing ideas humanity has ever contemplated is that of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) in the universe. Any literate person in the modern world cannot stare up at a night sky filled with thousands of stars and not have such thoughts. There are suggestions and hints of the idea in various ancient texts going back thousands of years, it has dominated the subject matter of science fiction ever since the writings of H.G. Wells, and in the last century the most overwhelmingly ever-present notions are connected with sightings of UFOs. Recently UFOs have appeared in various news reports as being seen by Navy pilots, and video of these encounters have baffled the pilots and other observers. They seem to toy with the pilots, staying out of reach, and then speeding away, with no meaningful actions apparent. In fact there are no apparent meanings to any of the reported actions of UFOs. With these rec...