Might as well keep looking ...
It would be fairly sad if we became so self-absorbed that we just stopped exploring and sniffing around of life beyond Earth.
I really enjoy SETI and astronomy's pure optimism and just wonder about what's out there.
I was just thinking the other day that while people are prattling on about xenophobia, mass shootings, terrorism, Trump, Brexit, wars raging, economies crashing, the nicer side of humanity has ignored all that nonsense and sent a probe to frigging Jupiter - just to see what's there! Between NASA, the ESA, SETI, the Russian space agency and increasingly other high tech nations and players, at least some of us are still looking beyond our own navels.
If it wasn't for some of these things, and we just had to listen to right wing politicians bickering, terrorists blowing things up and economists analysing supply and demand all day and reducing human activity to dull mathematical formula about accumulating wealth, it would be a very depressing little planet.
Who knows, we may never find any life outside earth, but it's well worth looking!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
