NEW YORK: Which will come first? You turning into a robot? Or you shaking hands with a little green person?We’re in a race, don’t you know. And the latter proposition is coming up fast on the rails.
I am moved to this exalted level of excitement by the utterances of NASA’s chief scientist Ellen Stofan. She declared Tuesday that we are but a score of years away from making one of humanity’s greatest scores — a close encounter with alien life.
When NPR reported this, my bodily hair began to vibrate like corn in a mistral wind. I was ready to alter my life plans and renounce grenache for the rest of my days in order to be ready for the next great coming.
Then I read that she added: “We are not talking about little green men. We are talking about little microbes.”
However if, as NASA predicts, there will be “definite evidence” of alien life within 20 to 30 years, I may even forsake pierogi (but only the cheese and potato ones) in the hope that I live long enough to see this evidence.
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