"KEO motivates and encourages everyone on this little planet earth to have a break, to think about personal tragedies and glories, about today's achievements and failures. Life itself is the most wonderful thing on earth, may it be Carduelis carduelis (the European Goldfinch) or Homo sapiens (the current man). Mankind is not the ultima ratio of evolution, but there is no other species capable to eradicate our planet's complete biosphere. There's no way to prevent evolution from the creation of intelligent species. If we fail to conserve our species cultural richness and if we continue to discriminate religion, sex, color and income, other life forms will evolve, replace us and will find KEO. Our very distant children of intelligent life may look like dragon flies or like Arnold Schwarzenegger, that really doesn't matter. Please send them your message, make them learn about us, our strengths and weaknesses, our hopes and reality, our mistakes and genious "