February 15, 2007
by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
[B]You, dear reader, are one in a thousand.
The fact that you’re confronting this column on a web site devoted to space science and astronomy makes you roughly as rare as technetium. Despite the fact that astronomy is one of the two most popular science subjects in American schools (the other is biology), it’s really not that popular.[/B]
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Full Story can be found here
http://www.seti.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=194993&ct=3558987
Greetings from Germany
Sir Ulli