Perhaps it’s our desire to paint the universe in our own image and/or the pleasure we take from being scared, at least in a controlled environment like a cinema, but does anyone find it odd that aliens in movies typically come in two sizes, (1) roughly human size (albeit sometimes NBA sized humans), and (2) gigantic? I won’t bore you with hundreds of examples of each, but they’re out there. I can’t help but wonder if we got it all wrong. Most life on this planet is tiny. Doesn’t probability suggest that intelligent life on other planets would develop at a smaller size? Wouldn’t it be easier to build a smaller spaceship? Wouldn’t it be easier for a smaller spaceship to reach the speeds necessary to explore the Universe? Bigger isn’t always better—says the five-foot-ten (in shoes) white boy. Shouldn’t we be on the look out for tiny aliens in tiny ships? Maybe they’re already here? Maybe they disguise their ships as insects. I’ve been in places in the world where the insect were way too big to be real. It would make much more sense to me, if I were to learn they were disguised alien spaceships. Frankly, I’d sleep better at night. Big insects scare me more than little aliens. I can’t help but laugh as I picture first contact and our current President who has a complex about firm handshakes trying to aggressively shake the hand of a 3-inch-high alien, leading to our first intergalactic donnybrook. Other than “Batteries Not Included”, which doesn’t really count because they were robots, can anyone think of a movie where tiny aliens (the little green men and women from “Attack from Mars” are too big and don‘t count – they were roughly human child size) arrived on earth in a spaceship they built? Tiny aliens that hitched a ride on a human spaceship also don’t count.