I Can Sit and Stay

I've never seen UFO, but my older brother has. The funny thing about it is he would be the last person in the world to believe in something like that.

But one warm summer night, he was lying on his back on an old weathered picnic table down at the river, talking with a friend, gazing at the stars. A bright light zipped across the entire sky and stopped on a dime, zipped in a different direction and paused, and then took off in a 3rd direction.

A few moments later, he hesitantly asked his companion, "Um.... did you see what I just saw?"

After a pause... "Um, yeah."

"Cool."

I've always believed that life must exist on other planets. Considering the vastness of the universe, it seems absurd and egotistical to think that we would be the only ones. And it seems so improbable.

I've always liked this quote:
"To consider the Earth the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow." - Metrodoros

Somewhere out there the conditions exist for life. Probability would state that it exists in many places other than our planet. Primitive life may exist in thousands of places, intelligent life perhaps in hundreds.

I wonder if they’d be more intelligent than we are? Reminds me of that song by Porno for Pyros: We’d Make Great Pets.