Claressa Shields
Claressa Shields

I take the toughest challenges and fight against the best women. With that attitude, I will always be doing something big. I'm light-years ahead of my time.

Frank Drake
Frank Drake

We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.

Seth Shostak
Seth Shostak

Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.

K-PAX
K-PAX

Dr. Mark Powell: I'd like to begin by asking you... if you know why you're here.
Prot: Of course. You think I'm crazy.
Dr. Mark Powell: I prefer the term "ill". Do you think you are... ill?
Prot: A little homesick, perhaps.
Dr. Mark Powell: Really? Where is home?

Prot: K-PAX.
Dr. Mark Powell: K-PAX?
Prot: Capital "K," hyphen, capitals "P-A-X." K-PAX is a planet. But don't worry. I'm not going to leap out of your chest.
Dr. Mark Powell: I'm not worried. It's just that I'm only familiar with nine planets.
Prot: Well, actually, there are ten, but

that doesn't matter. I'm not from your solar system. K-PAX is about 1,000 of your light-years away from here in what you would call your constellation Lyra.