<< To quote Jody Foster in _Contact_: "If we are alone, then it seems like an awful waste of space". :-)
I must agree with her. >> Doesn't make her (or you) right. I like to *think* we're not alone; but science isn't about what I think (or about what I'd like), it's about what I can prove. So far, I can't prove that we're not alone. The null hypothesis has to be that we're alone. To overturn that, we have to prove otherwise. Tom Beck "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I didn't realize I'd also see the last." - Jerry Pournelle
