Why we might be alone in the Universe

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I met my wife online. Me, St. Louis. Her, Albuquerque. We exchanged in excess of 20,000 messages (each) before we actually met. We will have been married nine years in July.

Now if she had been on Aldebaran...

Yeah, I was just kidding.  I met my own wife through correspondence when she lived in the Philadelphia area and I lived in the Dallas area.  We have now been happily married for 25 years.

I wonder how much postage would cost to Alpha Centauri ?

There was a short story I read back in high school. A guy notices that the farther a letter has to go the shorter the delivery time. Across town, four days. Neighboring country, three days. Outer Mongolia, two days.

So, he addresses a letter to Alpha Centauri Main Post Office. He puts it in his mailbox and before he can go back inside a letter carrier is there with his reply. The letter announces that as Earth has discovered the Interstellar Postal System we are now members of the Galactic Federation.