“Why don’t we see life out there in the cosmos?”
“It’s a puzzle, and there’s no consensus.”
“We ran inside to tell the grown-ups, and they were skeptical. You’d be skeptical too, right?”
“We saw a featureless silver disc hovering over the houses. We watched it for a few seconds, and then it shot away incredibly quickly.”
“Psychologists have shown we can’t trust our brains to tell the truth. It’s easy to fool ourselves.”
“It’s a puzzle, and there’s no consensus. So far, nothing. And with each passing year, this nonobservation, this lack of evidence for any alien activity gets more puzzling because we should see them, shouldn’t we?”
