What else can I blog about today other than to note that it marks ten years since I wrote this entry, and thus marks forty years until humanity makes first contact with the Vulcans? Of course, I’m not seriously predicting it’ll actually happen, but as I wrote ten years ago, it’s a nice little date we Trekkies seem to cling to for a bit of hope. I’m still a huge fan of the film, First Contact, so noting the date today kind of gives me a link to it: wouldn’t it be cool if, forty years from now, we actually do make first contact with alien life? Wouldn’t it be brilliant if humanity one day grows beyond national borders and state differences, and one day works together to explore the galaxy? Mind you, Star Trek also predicts that, before that happens, humanity goes through a catastrophic third world war, so we better just hope that only part of the prophecy comes true.