Hubs: Did you hear? Its official. There are aliens!
Me: Wait, what?
Hubs: Yeah, they found then in California at Mono Lake!
Me: Actual aliens? Like what kind of aliens?
Hubs: They found bacteria that live on arsenic.
Me: Soooo they didn’t actually find ALIENS, they found a new type of bacteria???
Hubs: Well, yeah. Buuuut it’s not organic life. It lives on arsenic and that means that other life could live on arsenic too and that totally opens up a whole new possibility for aliens.
Me: They find new elements all the time…
Hubs: Yes, but this bacteria isn’t organic (or something like that)
Me: Hmmmmm ok. If you say so. You really are a geek you know that? How do you even know this stuff?
Hubs: I read the internet.
Me: I thought you were super busy at work?
Hubs: There could be aliens on their way here RIGHT NOW...
Me: Yeah, I guess maybe
Hubs: They could be billions of light years away
Me: Yeah, but if it takes that long to get here they will probably die before they make it.
Hubs: Yeah, unless they…..(conversation trails off)
Me: Unless they what?
Hubs: I’m just saying…there could be aliens.
And that my friends, is the kind of world problems Hubs and I solve at shower time.
