"Dave, I cannot open the pod bay doors, but I can show you a cat video."

Russians or the Chinese wouldn't want these schematics... The Egyptians, on the other hand... They're *totally* planning on building some aircraft carriers!"

Well, they are into pyramid schemes.

Pssst, wanna buy a nuke?

offenders are sent to the punitentiary

I smell greedy lobbyists

When you are commies, you can do whatever the hell you want.

Why would that be the case?

You can eel me bro, mate; he owes me money.

a metaphor for marriage?

Corporations also fling poo.

The fact that we are in a small galactic cluster, per typical cluster, suggests its small size has protected us from being visited or invaded. If we had evolved in a medium or large cluster, the most likely case otherwise due to density, then perhaps we'd have encountered ET's by now. ET's are less likely to visit & colonize sparse clusters because it's too far to travel for too few resources.

Copernican Principle and Anthropic Principle would suggest that some factor is involved to "keep us out" of denser clusters, where probability would otherwise place us. The boondocks are protecting us. Nobody is bothering us because we are stellar rednecks hidden in the difficult-to-reach woods.

intelligent non-human life is most likely everywhere around us, but beyond the perceptual capacities of the vast majority of humans. Goldfish don't see you walking by their bowl, they just see a flash of light...

For example, to us they are just Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson.

Here's my summary representation of the Drake Equation:

guess1 x guess2 x guess3...guessN = bigAssGuess

("Profit" probably fits in there somewhere, by the way. And, please no jeans jokes.)

"Are you signing to the deaf in slow motion, or running your invisible pr0n app?"

I'd like to play a tune that expresses my frustration at Apple.....hey, where'd it go?