Well, I wanna believe...
There's a lot of stuff out there and a whole bunch of it is organic.
Why not biological as well?
Even if they're now all gone, I find "has-been" easier to deal with than "always-been", if you get my drift.
Nonetheless, I'll probably always keep scanning the sky in one way or another.
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