Aging & Wisdom Quote by Dwight Schultz

There’s a charming, slightly unhinged glee in the way this line tries to domesticate the cosmic. Schultz takes one of the coldest ideas in physics - time dilation at light speed - and turns it into a hangout scenario: “buzzing around having a good old time.” The intent isn’t to lecture; it’s to make the unimaginable narratable, to give an audience permission to picture extraterrestrial intelligence not as ominous invaders or godlike judges, but as restless tourists with a wild commute.

The subtext is anxiety management. Space is too big, the timelines too long, and the odds too abstract to sit with comfortably. So the language shrinks it down to a month, a vibe, a continuous activity loop. “Perhaps” does quiet work here: it’s the hedge of someone riffing in conversation, signaling wonder rather than authority. That looseness invites the listener to play along, to treat speculation as a shared imaginative exercise instead of a debate to be won.

Contextually, this feels like the kind of actorly, character-forward sci-fi talk that flourished in late-20th-century genre culture: science as texture, not syllabus. Schultz’s delivery (you can almost hear the cadence) leans into the human need to anthropomorphize the unknown. Even “continuously looking” is telling: the aliens aren’t arriving, conquering, or saving us; they’re searching. That frames humanity less as the center of the story and more as something that might be glanced at in passing - a humbling idea, smuggled in under a joke.