To Serve Us Up?

🌌 "To Serve Us Up?" — Aliens, Interstellar Rocks & the Hunger for Hope

By Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita

Have you ever looked up at the night sky and just whispered:

"I wish aliens would hurry up and help us."

I have.

Between the endless wars, the greed, the cruelty toward the most vulnerable, and the poisoning of the planet—we reach this point of desperation where we start hoping that something—someone—out there might swoop in and save us.

Lately, strange space objects have started appearing.
‘Oumuamua. 2I/Borisov. Now, 3I/ATLAS.
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer, even asks:

"What if these aren't just rocks? What if one is a probe, or tech, or... something else?"

They move oddly. Reflect light like nothing we've seen. Some scientists roll their eyes. Others lean in with curiosity.

And many of us?

We dare to hope.

Maybe it's alien tech.
Maybe they’re watching.
Maybe they’ve seen enough.
Maybe they’ll help us fix what we’ve broken.

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But then—I remember that old Twilight Zone episode:
"To Serve Man."

Aliens came with gifts.
They ended hunger. Brought peace.
They gave us a book titled To Serve Man.

It wasn’t until too late that someone translated it and found out…

It was a cookbook.

And that hits different now.

Because no one is coming. Not aliens. Not angels.
Not billionaires in rockets.
Not governments obsessed with growth over goodness.

We have to save ourselves.

And maybe—just maybe—that’s the most advanced intelligence of all:

• Organizing together.
• Creating real community.
• Growing gardens instead of greed.
• Using our voices like signals, sent out across the noise.

Maybe we’re the “aliens” we’ve been waiting for.
Maybe we’re the tech, the light, the hope—if we choose to be.

And if the next interstellar rock is a probe?

Let’s hope we’ve evolved enough to greet it as equals… not as prey.

Blog post written by Zipolita — Artist, Truth-Seeker, Sky-Watcher.