or want to.

That's what the gov't wants you to think

Earth might just be an extreme outlier. That's why we need to protect it.

Either that, or the Earth is nothing but some alien's high school science project gone amok.

The aliens are already here among us. Watching us and manipulating us....just waiting until it's time......

I think it would be highly self centered of us to think that out of a huge huge vast universe...we're it.

But god. If you were an alien, would you want to come here?

aliciachenaux: have you not seen Trump?!

I heard a NPR piece once that posited that either we're not at all unique, and it's sort of suspicious that no one else has contacted us yet because we're on the younger side of this galaxy's formation

(read, we suck)

or we're it.

it's hard to reconcile what we've figured out about how life probably got started with any intermediate state. So his point was that we've got to do better, because either we suck so much, we're getting

left out of the "federation", or we are the galaxy's only consciousness, and we ought to take that responsibility seriously.

Did I miss an announcement or something?

SexySiloPuddinPie: you are the galaxy's highest life form

there's a small trophy, and a gift certificate

Well I was yesterday.

well played