Meeting Up with Alien Civilizations

“It not a question of if; it’s a question of when,” remarks an astrophysicist on the prospect of our finding extraterrestrial life.

Here’s a wonderful article on a recent discovery, marking just one more data point in humankind’s quest to find life outside the confines of our home planet.  This one is an object, detected by the telescope atop Mount Haleakala in Maui, built specifically for this purpose.

Almost everything it observes are asteroids, zipping through our solar system at a cool 40,000 MPH.  This one however, has characteristics that defy every known scientific theory–except one: it’s the handiwork of an alien civilization.