re: The more we know....
Time to get working on those starships, or at least a multigenerational vessel.
A Universe 13.7 billion years old, 100 billion galaxies, 400 billion stars
just in our galaxy alone (with a width of 100,000 light years), probably
billions more planets circling most of those suns, and we're stuck on
one little rock.
Yeah, I know we have to start somewhere, but as a certain Russian rocket
scientist once said, it is time to get out of the cradle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky