Our corner of the Universe

Astronomers are now reporting that they believe that in the Milky Way there are 100 billion planetary solar systems - stars that have planets orbiting them.

If you consider that there are believed to be in excess of 170 billion galaxies in the universe, you can really begin to appreciate the significance of the announcement.  This is especially so because we are still finding new life on Earth ("World's smallest frog discovered").

Given that humans have been seeking to communicate with extraterrestrial life since the beginning of recorded history, the announcement is quite exciting.  We should assume that other life in the Galaxy would be trying to communicate with outside life as well.  The question that we should now be looking into is how would a far more advanced life try to do it?  Certainly we will continue to develop better ways of "looking" across great distances to learn of the existence of these extraterrestrial systems, but knowing they are there and having an effective way of trying to communicate are very different.

Anyhow, not really related to the law, but interesting stuff, now I will focus on how to communicate with some AUSA re the true meaning of Brady, a task that is far more daunting than reaching ET.



In other news...it is okay to kill a bunch of enemy combatants in war, but God help you if you pee on their dead bodies! Seems a bit confusing to me if you really think about it.