Originally Posted by LaurelHS

The Weekly World News once said that aliens mutilated cattle simply because they enjoyed eating beef. I don't know why the aliens couldn't just break into a grocery store; they wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of slaughtering the cattle, and stealing a few steaks from a freezer wouldn't attract as much attention as leaving mutilated cattle in a field.

Originally Posted by a-l-e-x

True. But I'd like to think of it this way: I think it's an even longer shot to have a star that's a virtual twin of our own sun be our nearest stellar neighbor... and yet that's what we have in Alpha Centauri (although its part of a triplet... A is amazingly similar to our sun, just a bit more luminous but spectral classification is identical, and B is also somewhat sunlike, just a bit cooler K-type.)