you're welcome to it

As bad as we are to one another as fellow human inhabitants of this world and the more we degrade the planet that sustains us, the more we believe, if our movies are any gauge, that aliens want to take it all from us. To echo the old comic’s gag line “Take my earth, please.”

spot visible from space

In May 2010, scientists noticed that Jupiter had mysteriously lost one of its great cloud belts. At the same time, if on one of Jupiter’s moons an observer would've turned his telescope toward planet Earth, he would have noticed a ‘great dark spot’ developing on the surface of one of our seas.