Not sure if this shouldn't go under Folklore really, given it's impact on humanity's psyche these last 35 years... But - 35 years after receiving the Wow! Signal, National Geograhic have issued an open invitation to those who wish to contribute to The Reply!

Lots of web coverage on this, but I feel sure one of two of our more Extra Terrestially Minded Mudcatters might have something to say on the matter anyway.

Are we alone in the universe? Do civilisations rise & fall in the blink of the Cosmic Eye ensuring that only one is up to any sort of technological speed at any one time? Or was there only ever the one all along - merrily travelling the spaceways, mining the resources from planet to planet? In which case was The Wow! Signal a reminder of where we came from? Or where we're going? In Sci-Fi terms the Mythology & Folklore is quite boundless, but films like Quatermass & the Pit, Promethetheus and even Babylon 5's Thirdspace offer us Creation Myths every bit as intriguing as the ancient ones, possibly because they hint at things even more ancient...

Keep watching the skies!

Jack Blandiver
(i.e. The Mudcatter Still Known as Suibhne O'Piobaireachd / GUEST Suibhne Astray until such time my request for an official name-change is honoured...)