Cultural trends and corporate greed will doubtless continue to do battle over our nether regions until global warming and societal collapse render the question moot.

Our real preoccupation, the question that animates public interest in science fiction, is the idea that we might discover other intelligent beings or species – that is beings we might communicate with and who might, in the long run, be, either friends or foes.

Favorite quotes about life, death and evolution Peter A. Hempel Steve Jobs (last words) – “Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.” Richard Feynman (last words) – “I’d hate to die twice.” Woody Allen: “I’m not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.” “Life is. It goes. And it does not count. That was the hurtling truth that comes to rattle everyone as they grow up, grow old.” Jim Crace, Being Dead (quoted in a book review in Men’s Journal, March 2000, p. 56) "The mean