It's not a bad life. You have to watch your back, and the bugs will carry you away some nights but nobody bothers us out here.

It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

Fat Charlie the archangel files for divorce, he says, well this will eat up a year of my life, and there's all that weight to be lost.

In some ways this could be good thing because we can do a thorough back-to-back evaluation at Sandown under race conditions.

Why should I give it up now? At my age, I could be dead tomorrow.

We've objected to that and we've been told we will be exempted from that tax.