Out there ?

I finished my walk a little before 7:00, and was cooling down and logging the data while my wife was listening to the local NPR station on FM radio. The topic being discussed was SETI, the acronym for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and the interviewer was asking about evidence there was intelligent life on other planets in the universe.

I've been checking reader comments on newspaper websites today and can make a definitive statement that somewhere there's a planet that has at least as much intelligent life as there is in Texas. Let's face it, the bar is set pretty low. If the Texas right-wingers who type out their lunacy day after day are really the smartest people in the country, as they claim to be, then I have to believe that somewhere in outer space there are beings who can match us IQ point for IQ point.