For your amusement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYn4hdz91pA
There is so much wrong with this.
Travel hundreds of light years, just to peep into some guys window? No protection against viruses/parasites/environmental differences? Oh, I could go on ...
At the very best, I will allow that someone is playing a practical joke on Romanek ... did he not think to go outside and find out?*
*ETA: Sorry, he said he did go outside, but it had "disappeared". Must have put on its "ring of invisibility."
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche