"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean"
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As an actress, Sciorra’s power here isn’t authority but performance. The phrasing repeats “I think” like a calming mantra, a rhetorical self-soothing that makes escalating claims sound oddly consistent. That’s the joke and the critique: how easily conviction can substitute for evidence when the cadence is confident. The subtext isn’t really about Martians; it’s about the cultural appetite for mystery as a form of control. If aliens are spying, then the chaos has an author, the dread has a plot.
Contextually, it lands in that late-20th/early-21st-century media ecosystem where UFO lore, government mistrust, and infotainment blur. It’s funny because it’s extreme, but it also mirrors a familiar pattern: start with a reasonable premise, then keep walking until “reasonable” is just a memory.
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Sciorra, Annabella. (2026, January 16). I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-space-exploration-is-very-important-i-138503/
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Sciorra, Annabella. "I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-space-exploration-is-very-important-i-138503/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-space-exploration-is-very-important-i-138503/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







