There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
