Sigh….. I waited for someone to use that heading so I wouldn’t have to reveal myself as a closet Star Trek fan. Stories have been bandied about by all about a new report by scientists at the National Research Council which basically says that life elsewhere may have little in common with ours. My first thought was that they are right, aliens are probably very different from us, for example they are probably intelligent.

Then I put aside my cynicism and decided to wait and see how long it would be before someone used the lyrics from “Star Trekkin“. Sad to say, it turned out that it only occurred to me (or nobody else would admit to it).

All I can say in regards to the recent report, is that I’ll be terribly disappointed if, after watching years of sci-fi, it turns out that the only life out there is intelligent slime.

This article was posted on Wednesday, July 11th, 2007 at 1:36 am