To See What they Could See

One morning the raido hosts were discussing Steven Hawkings thinking that there is extraterrestial life out there and the danger of attracting their attention. Taylor listened intently and then added that the universe is a big place so there likely is more life out there. But I wonder, she added, why would they want to visit here? Mackenzie, without missing a jump on my bed as she answered, piped up and said, "It's like the bear that went over the mountain; to see what he could see." Ah, out of the minds of babes. But there's actually a lot of sense to that.