Tom Cruise unironically admits he wants to meet some aliens: dat you, Xenu?

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise’s international tour of terror to promote Oblivion continues, and we skipped his brief stint in Austria where he rubbed nips with with daredevil Felix Baumgartner. Hopefully, he didn’t pass Felix a copy of Dianetics or invite him to go motorcycle riding through the desert with David Miscavige, but you never know with Tom.

These are photos of Tom in Dublin where he paid a visit to the Guinness Storehouse and poured a pint while pretending to enjoy beer. LOL. Then Tom attended a needless ceremony to celebrate his Irish roots where he was protected by Scientobodyguard on the left in the below photo. I’ve kind of missed this guy — he worked with Katie in NYC for a few years, but after the divorce, he was shuffled back to Tom’s side of the pond. The dude seems like an intense guy who works very hard at his job. Let’s hope he sees the light and breaks free one day.

Tom Cruise

In more ridiculous news, Tom decided to talk about aliens because Oblivion deals with the aftermath of an alien invasion on Earth. The hilarious thing, of course, is that any association between Tom and aliens leads to a discussion about Xenu and the disembodied souls lurking around volcanoes all those billions of years ago. Yet here’s Tom unironically claiming that he’d love to meet some aliens. Sounds like fun!

Tom Cruise wants to go on a Tour of the Worlds – by taking a trip to space.

The Hollywood star says he would consider spending £130,000 to fly into orbit – and would love to bump into an ALIEN.

Speaking as he promoted new sci-fi film Oblivion, Cruise added: “Who wouldn’t want to do something like that?

“I’m going to let a couple of other people test it out first but it would be great. I was always hoping when I was a kid that we would be travelling to different planets by now.”

The War of the Worlds star, 50, would be following other celebs like Ashton Kutcher who plan to go into space. The Two and a Half Men star has already forked out £130,000 for Virgin Galactic’s upcoming two-hour mission.

And Scientologist Cruise believes it would not be out of this world to think aliens exist. Some of his religious pals hold that an alien called Xenu brought humans to Earth 75 million years ago.

Tom said: “I don’t think you can actually count it out. It might be a little arrogant to think we were the only ones in all the galaxies throughout the universe – but I’ve never met one!”

Cruise was speaking in Moscow at the Russian premiere of Oblivion, in which he plays one of the last men on Earth after an alien battle ravages the planet in 2073.

The 5ft 7in star is well practised for a trip – he once flew a Space Shuttle simulator at Nasa’s space centre in Houston, Texas. Now that’s one giant step for a small man.

[From The Sun]

I’m tempted to agree with Tom (for once) in that it would be awfully presumptuous of us humans to believe that we’re the only life form in the entire cosmos. Obviously, life must exist elsewhere, but I’m of the opinion that we’d never be able to communicate with otherworldly beings anyway. Obviously, life isn’t really like Star Trek with universal translators, but Tom is still convinced in the back of his sunshiney little mind that one day, he and fellow “big being” Dave will hop into their spaceship of love and greet the aliens with open arms.

Oh, Tom.

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise

Photos courtesy of WENN

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