“You take Christianity: a guy named Jesus came and died on the cross for everybody’s sins. That’s not as big of a story as what types of intelligences are living across the universe.” – Tom DeLonge
Turns out that Blink 182’s song ‘Alien’s Exist’ was actually co-founder Tom DeLonge’s autobiography.
The punk rocker/clothing entrepreneur/social media magnate has been interviewed by Paper magazine and has come out with some pretty whack (or pretty awesome, depending on how you look at it) theories on aliens, government cover-ups of said aliens.
The star has always been a firm-believer that there is other life out there in the universe (he even set up the website Strange Times on the topic. If you’ve got 10 minutes, read the full interview here, but we’ve summed up Tom’s babble salient points about extraterrestrial life below).
Why he’s so obsessed with aliens.
“I think it’s the biggest story of mankind. You take Christianity: a guy named Jesus came and died on the cross for everybody’s sins. That’s not as big of a story as what types of intelligences are living across the universe. I mean, the deep space project by Hubble, which is taking our most exotic telescope that we’ve ever made at the time, and focusing on the blackest part of space for 11 days straight.
Literally a grain of sand, if you held it out at arm’s length, is where the focus of this orbiting telescope is at. For 11 days. And it came back with a one-inch by one-inch colored slide with ten thousand galaxies in it. It’s like we have trillions of galaxies and in each galaxy there’s trillions of planets. It’s just unreal.”
What he’ll ask the aliens if he should be so lucky to meet them.
“Hmm, that’s a good question. I don’t know what I would ask them. I’d ask them, ‘How did it all start?’ I bet you they wouldn’t even know.”
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On whether he thinks we’ll (publicly make contact with aliens in his lifetime)
“I think we already have. Whether or not that will be published or not, I have no idea. I think absolutely it’s been happening forever. It’s been happening with individuals all over the world, it’s been happening with governments to some degree. I don’t think we’re working underground with aliens.
I don’t think it’s like that, like some dumb conspiracy theorists think. I think what’s gonna happen, mark my words, is that they’re going to find the microbial life that’s they’ve been talking about on Mars and then, it’s one planet over. We’re gonna send people up there, and we’re gonna find remnants of other types of life.
But really, what’s going to be there are remnants of other civilizations: architecture, old monuments, machinery, things that have been fossilized, whatever, and then that will get dripped out for another 30 to 40 years. Maybe there was a civilization there.”
4. What he thinks of people who laugh at his obsession with extraterrestrial life.
“People will be like ‘Oh, you believe in UFOs’ [laughs], but I’m reading books on physics, I’m reading books on the secret space program, I’m talking to people that work underground for six months at a time, that are confiding in me about the national security initiatives.
I’ve literally read 200 books on the subject, and I don’t spend my time looking at UFO reports or talking to little green men. I’m way past that. If anybody tells you there’s no life in universe, you should be turned off. That’s just such a dumb thing to say. It’s totally, universally accepted amongst the country’s elite scientific establishments that there’s life everywhere.
The question is what kind, where, how’d they get here, what are they doing when they get here, and how do we communicate with them? That’s when you start reading books about the mind and consciousness, and telepathy and ESP. It’s a whole different program.”
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5. How Tom knows (too much) about secret government UFO business.
“To give you an example, one time I remember bringing up a very specific craft that I believe we’re building, in secret, to emulate the phenomenon that our government has been observing for decades. So I started talking about the craft, and its magnetic slide system and how it displaces over 89 percent of the mass of the ship, how it ionizes the engine, how it glows – I went through the whole thing, and this engineer looks at me, this guy is 70 years old, and he goes, ‘You better be real fucking careful about what you’re talking about.’
“And I go, ‘Okay, so I’m close’ And he goes, ‘I’m not fucking kidding with you. You better be really fucking careful.’ And he calls me up the next day and he goes, ‘I’ve had calls about you. If someone comes and asks you to get in their car, don’t fucking get in the car.’ [laughs] And that’s the shit I’m dealing with.”
Are we fascinated by this man who used to run naked through Blink 182’s video clips? Yes, yes we are. And if the aliens are going to visit planet earth à la Independence Day, we’re pretty keen to have Tom on our side.
Top Comments
There are too many incidences for there not to be something out there.
Science cannot always be our measure as they can only comment on what they know ''up until now''.
I met a pilot at a BBQ once and he said nearly every pilot at one time will witness something unexplainable.
It is most likely that aliens do exist, but we are probably the most intelligent life form in our galaxy.
He's a bit crazy, but no more crazy than ghost hunters, astrologists, palm readers, Christians/Muslims/Hindu/any religion based on the supernatural, people that think that a 3 year old boy is a woman who died in a fire.........I could go on and on.
That's a pretty big call... you do realise how incredibly, beyond-our-comprehension, massive our galaxy is right? http://htwins.net/scale/
Yes, i do, however I'm with Professor Brian Cox on this one. He makes some good points as to why this could well be the case, in his series Human Universe.
I am, in no way, claiming to be right or anything, but that's what I think. It's depressing, really.