seth shostak, the SETI Institute’s senior astronomer, using drakes equation and factoring in moore’s law has made calculations which suggest we puny earthlings will make first contact with an extra terrestrial intelligence within the next twenty years. meaning only that in the next twenty years our future alien overlords will finally hear us. when they respond with their wide beamed mind rays and planet devouring silicon particle clouds he does not claim to know. now i’d love nothing better than enslavement at the hands of ruthless insectoid aliens, but can there be a more useless prediction? thanks seth. why not write a big ol’ book with some of your astronomer pals while we wait to hear back? we can call it the new new testament.