Therein lies the insatiable desire for ETs to be real: we wish any or all of those things could be not true. We hope against observation that our own scientists

Therein lies the insatiable desire for ETs to be real: we wish any or all of those things could be not true. We hope against observation that our own scientists will arrive at mind-boggling energy sources, knowing that cannot be done with all that we know. We imagine another life form that was superior understanding of physics that could prove its possible, and hopefully show us how. These limits, like mortality itself, don’t sit well with our boundless egos. There’s something majestic about that folly… for what it’s worth.