Has it come to this?

'To boldly golf...'

Are there aliens on the moon? No, of course not. Don't be an idiot. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't look. A couple of scyentists from Arizona State have come up with an idea to have internet nerds comb through photos taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter looking for signs left behind by aliens. Why? Because it will give us something to do and I suppose it's cheaper than renting a spaceship from Russia or Virgin Galactic.

The aliens have gold lamé
technology centuries ahead of ours.

Their theory is that aliens may have traveled light years between stars and spotted our primitive ancestors murdering each other over religion and throwing poo. But instead of nuking us from orbit (as would have been the sensible option) or using their advanced technology to make us worship them as gods (the plot of 15% of all Star Trek episodes) the aliens said to themselves: 'Hey, let's leave a note, or an obelisk or something!'


Or, failing something so blatant, they're also hoping to find space junk or left-over scientific instruments on the assumption that the visiting life-forms are slobs like us.

It's a good thing this Italian guy pretending to be an 

Indian never joined the space program.

Godspeed nerds, godspeed.

Ok, fine. I guess it's totally possible. And really, free internet labor (again, nerds) has proven willing to aid science (as long as we don't have to get up or anything). But has it really come to this? We used to strap brave (or possibly insane) men and women to rockets and watch them slip the surly bonds of Earth in the name of science. Now we're down to lunar dumpster diving. Does anyone find the 21st kind of lame sometimes?

"Holy shit NASA, if you missed an alien starship on the moon 

for forty years I totally want our money back."

-Me