[LibWhacker]

...what are we going to do about it?

Study it. And all other systems like it. We don't have to go there to do that.

Don't want to bring a laser to a phaser fight.

That's why you can count me among those who sincerely hope we do not encounter other intelligences out there for a billion years (and even that won't necessarily guarantee us a leg up on them); i.e., I hope that intelligent life in the cosmos is exceedingly rare or even non-existent, except here on Earth.

[anymouse]

Study it. And all other systems like it. We don't have to go there to do that.

Exactly what is wrong with our couch potato voyeuristic society. Why bother to actually explore (thus enabling the development of) space when you can just oggle it through a telescope? /sarc