Be Prepared

At some point within the next 24 hours, you are very likely to find yourself having to explain that "organic molecules identified on a comet" is not the same as "OMG we found aliens!1!1!!1"

It's already happened to me once; I thought it best to warn you all.

But... what ELSE could it be? ANSWER ME THAT! WHY IS NASA HIDING THE TRUTH? SHOW US THE LIVE FEED FROM THE HUBBLE.

(Really? Cool. I should read the news more often.)

Although as somebody pointed out to me recently, scientists don't know everything - for example, why do hotdog sausages come in packs of eight and hotdog buns in packs of six?

It's a conspiracy to make you buy more sausages than you need, innit?

(A certain idiot of our mutual acquaintance once explained to me how petrol pumps are designed to go directly from £9.99 to £10.01, skipping over the price you want to pay, because the extra pennies add up to a substantial amount of money for the oil companies...)

That sOunds like a bigmalism to me.

I thought bigmalism was a paraphilia in DSM-5.

Nah. Bigmal might say that, but he's not dim enough to believe it.

Surely if we have gone to some comet /whatever, it is us that is the alien.

Whoa, that's deep, man.

Yeah deep space innit ;-]