“But even when it’s a signal, even when it’s a microbe, we’ll likely never know if it’s aliens. Not just because of the vast distances involved or because of the wild possibilities presented by chemistry and biology, but because science seldom works that way. Discoveries almost never arrive as we think they will, as lightning bolt eurekas. They are slow, gradual, communal. Alien life may not be something we ever ‘find’, but instead inch towards, ever closer, like a curve approaching its asymptote. For all our desire to know who’s out there, that may have to be enough.”
Again: Still don’t know why any entities advanced enough to come here would come here, and certainly not in a way where they’d be noticed. I know: Just destroyed Star Trek.
Sorry, lads.
Gotta say, though, I’ve enjoyed Karl Urban’s impersonation of DeForest Kelley…
