“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Watterson – Calvin & Hobbes
I sigh deeply and relate to Calvin’s comment to Hobbes with some frequency. I mean, if you were capable of building a vessel that could transport you across the universe over a course of light years, and then, having gotten in the neighborhood of earth, observed a bit of what is going on here as this mass orbits the sun, would you want to stop and strike up a conversation? I fear extra-terrestrials see the earth as the (warning: dated societal reference) Stuckey’s of the universe, and the ETs are not hankering for a pecan log roll.
Of course, who knows. There’s a chance we are the best the universe has to offer.
It occurs to me... 