is 42 light years away (42 year journey travelling at the speed of light). This place doesn't look too hospitable, but is considered to be in our back yard. Then consider that fastest manmade craft to date AFAIR were the Helios probes and travelled about 70km/sec. The speed of light on the other hand is 300000km/sec. It's when you really start to comprehend the reality of the truly immeasurable distances involved (never mind all the different directions you could go) that you realise, the chances of a visitor from another plant, building a ship capable of travelling for millennia at the speed of light, going in the right direction and then, after travelling for hundreds and hundreds of years, only revealing themselves to a few hippy's and GEI's very own Callmetroll, you realise that it is so farfetched as to be laughable. If they are out there, and if they find us, I would love it (as long as they're not here to eat us that is). But to be honest, just reaching us would mean that they would have be so advanced in comparison to us, that they'd probably consider us ants and would have no qualms about being spotted by anyone as they flew around inspecting/studying us. Besides, as you know, it's a hard enough job trying to find intelligent life on this planet "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..." Bill Hicks Whilst it is highly likely, statistically, that there