For decades I have had this feeling that we are indeed alone and that the mystery of existence is so deep and distant that we must somehow get off this planet and begin the unfathomable process of populating the vast out-there because it is going to take us a very long time to understand what it is all about. I have little patience for the world's wars and travails - I want to scream at the madmen - "Get your @#$% together you fools before you wreck perhaps the only chance we shall ever have!"
Then again - back in the early Nineties I had the "feeling" that the Buffalo Bills were going to win a Super Bowl - so. -dayll