You wouldn't be a fan of Erich von Daniken <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_von_D%C3%A4niken</a> would you? I have read some of his stuff and found it interesting but it's too much pseudo-science. I'm sure there is or has been life elsewhere in the universe. It's too big and too old to have never spawned life anywhere but just this one little planet. However, as much as I would like to believe in extra-terrestrial life visiting Earth the odds are not promising. The universe is HUGE and roughly 14 billion years old. Humans have been of an interesting technological level for less than 10,000 years (this would encompass the Mayans, Egyptians, etc.). The probability that intelligent and advanced extraterrestrial life has existed or does exist at the same brief moment in time as us and is close enough to feasibly visit us and chooses to keep it secret is just too infinitesimally small to put any faith in. It's all very interesting to contemplate, and I would personally love to see/meet/find extraterrestrial life, but any rational consideration of the possibility is quite deflating. -- Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire) ---- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html</a>