fascinating study. it was a nasa affiliated research effort in combination with penn state university. in fact, it was a taxpayer-funded study. there you go. exactly. thank you. there is only one taxpayer. also, to pat tyann s point about this is what happens when you have a group of nerds with too much time on their hands. as we saw from the panel discussion on the research incident, when it devolved into a discussion of dr. who and princess leah and fake moon landings, it became the largest nerd panel we have ever had on the red eye. also, a university of connecticut poll shows 77% of americans think that aliens could be real. and actually, mocking bill s point about amoeba aliens, 8 of 10 americans believe that aliens are more advanced than humans.