Quote: GreebleIt'd be nice to see that there is something before i go.
You never know how long you have.
I can understand a bit of sentimentality, but I'm afraid that our first contact with extraterrestrials will likely be nothing like people tend to imagine it to be because of movies, videogames, etc.
We won't meet aliens face to face, or communicate with them right away, if ever. And that's if they're even sentient and intelligent/stupid enough to be interested in us.
By the way, I say "stupid" because aliens that are vastly intelligent are probably advanced enough for us to not be even able to comprehend it, let alone be aware of it. We don't have conversations with chimps either, with whom we have most of our DNA
and most of our body language and group behavior in common. And even chimps have been known to react to other animals as if they knew they were intellectually superior, just like we do.