I'm thinking of my friend, Mr. Fermi, and his Paradox. I'm glad that now that we have space surveillance scopes to pick up dinosaur killers or even Tunguska class objects, well, who should be surprised that strange things on hyperbolic trajectories appear to be passing through every few years? I expect we'll see the next one in another couple years, too, and, as Gomer Pyle used to say, "Surprise Surprise Surprise."

The only problem with them being technological creations is the disconnect between any conceivable DNA-ish lifetime and the vast distances out there. OK, Homo erectus launches a spaceship and it phones home to Robert Heinlein.

What did the old world maps from the early Age of Discovery say? Here There Be Dragons or something like that.

So far Mr. Fermi has been right and you know, he wasn't a slouch.

So in my mind, the better question is how we could pick up any kind of actual warp drive?

Because otherwise it really doesn't add up.

Mr./Ms. Occam contributed to this article, too.