Surviving Long Enough To Find Aliens

ALL IS NOT LOST, although it may at times seems so. True, we in the U.S.A. are going to either have a President Trump or a President Clinton, which is enough to make us somehow feel that all is lost, but bear in mind, we've survived worse circumstances, and we'll find a way to get through this, somehow... And there really is good news. Hands down, the best thing going on right now is the fact that our astronomical community is discovering new planets in the galaxy by the bushelful, and it now begins to look very strongly as though every star in the heavens, four hundred billion in our galaxy alone, is encircled by a planets. Nothing could be more exciting. For centuries we've wondered whether there are planets throughout the universe, and now, we know, there are. Now we have a real reason to go to the stars! There are probably many lifeforms nearby, in cosmic terms. As our telescopes keep getting better, we'll be able to look straight down onto the surfaces of far away planets orbiting other stars, and into the living rooms of houses, to see what the aliens look like. We won't have to wait for them to come to us for us to know about them; and it won't even be necessary for us to travel to them and find them, although we will want to do that as well; we can just keep looking, closer and closer...until we find them, the aliens. Our telescopes are getting better, fast. Bigger, more powerful. If we can just find a way to keep from wiping out the Earth's climate and the Earth's climate from wiping us out, if we can cut down enough on our violence and wars and other forms of self destruction to survive a little longer; we can find out what's gong on with life on other planets. And even better; can you imagine how utterly thrilled intelligent beings on other planets will be to encounter humanity? We humans are such wonderful creatures, who in their right mind would be put off by us, and avoid us?