When you get to be an oldster you start thinking about stuff you may not be around to experience. I joke that a 20 year warrantee is no inducement for me to buy that appliance. So, I sighed when I read today that a chief NASA scientist predicts we will find alien life (or at least signs of it) within the next 20 to 30 years. "We know where to look. We know how to look," says Ellen Stofan. Wow.
Before we get too excited, the NASA people also say they are talking about finding microbes, not creatures of our imagination. Even so, we are on our way to somewhere.
Maybe when I return to the stardust from which I came, it will be ET waiting for me on the other side.
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