When I sat down with legendary scientist, NASA engineer, and sci-fi author Gentry Lee in a crowded Austin hotel lobby, I had one question for him: Are we alone in the universe?
It’s a question that he has spent most of his career entertaining in some form or another, and almost two hours interrogating in the new documentary Starman, which premiered at the SXSW Film & TV Festival last weekend. So naturally, I don’t expect him to have a ready-made answer when I pose the question to him. And sure enough, he looks a little perplexed when this is how I begin our interview.
