I remember as a kid asking my dad if he thought there was such a thing as aliens. He said it was his belief that the universe seemed an awfully big place for our planet to have its only inhabitants. I'm inclined to agree and it seems NASA is on the same page. What I've never understood, however, is NASA's approach to finding other lifeforms.

We have all kinds of rovers, probes and orbiting paraphernalia reporting back and everyone gets all atwitter if there are any "signs of life." What the heck do we know about life on other planets? Just because there is ancient evidence of water doesn't mean squat (other than the fact that there once was water on the planet). What if the alternate lifeforms were/are allergic to water? What if our definition of water is the lifeform? What if our water is a portal to other universes? It's a very Earth-centric point of view. Kind of like having a Miss Universe pageant - has Miss Vega ever entered?

Finally, scientists are asking these questions. If they had just come to me first, this would have been so much easier. For a bunch of eggheads, they sure are dumb...


Apropos of none of this, Wednesday is the last day to vote for this blog. Remember you can vote once per day, so keep it up - this is the home stretch! Bean's so excited that you've been voting that he had to bite his hand (and mine).

(I guess you could say he's my little green man. How's that for a tie-in?)

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