SO ENDS this first of two weekends focused on an interesting article about how thoroughly we have searched for signs of life in the cosmos, concluding that our searches have been minuscule compared to the search space needed to be explored. And this article only deals with searches for advanced life forms capable of emanating obvious signals, rather than biological life forms, where the search history has been even more woeful. We are left with the obvious question: why has mankind been so willfully uncurious?