Is There Intelligent Life Out There?

[Gail & Roberta]

I know, I know--the question is "Is There Intelligent Life Down Here?" Yes, romantic that I am, I believe there is. What I find curious is our notion that if there is other intelligent life "out there" that it is more advanced than we. Suppose it's the other way around? Suppose WE are the most advanced? The UFOlogists would have us believe that space farers have traveled unimaginable distances by some means not known to us, like jumping between places where folds in the space-time continuum touch, or some such thing. Supposedly they have found a way to bridge the distances, but we haven't found anything yet that exceeds the speed of light, which means that no matter how fast we travel it will take centuries of our time to reach even the closest star. And that assumes there's something to be found when we get there, and if our own system/galaxy is typical, even when we do, the distances are still staggering. Are other being studying us like lab specimens? Could be. Maybe they're amused by our puny efforts, condescending about our stage of development, or as some have suggested, frightened by our tendency to kill anything we don't understand, which is most of everything. Even tho I'd like to believe we have been and are continuing to be visited by beings more advanced than we are, the evidence is still far from convincing. I do believe, however, that the possibilities for other intelligent life among the billions of probable locations are endless, and we are supremely arrogant to think we are the only ones around. So let's keep watching the skies. :-)