Half the battle is just showing up.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.

Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.