Now that the discovery of extrasolar planets has been verified (planets outside our solar system), many scientists have shifted their focus to determining whether any of these planets have conditions appropriate for Earth-like life. Already we have MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations in Stars), a Canadian spacecraft that observes and records how much stars dim when their planets pass by them. It's like our own little private investigator, the Magnum P.I. of the skies. Of course, if any of these planets show promise they will undergo even greater scrutiny. I predict that MOST will discover:

Slartibartfast

A greenish, phosphorescent glow emanating from one of the stars when various planets pass by it, indicating profound Venus envy

Those damn, dirty apes

Jane Fonda orbiting nearby in a shag-carpeted spaceship

Moff Tarkin

Ooze, lots of green ooze

A planet wholly encircled by yellow ribbons reading "police line: do not cross" (scientists will then have to deduce the nature of the indigenous life forms based on the chalk outlines)

The birth of a fashion trend centered around radiation suits

Kyle MacLachlan and a fat, red-haired floating man with hideous blemishes

A new market for oxygenated chewing gum

Major Tom

Millions upon millions of sea-dwelling creatures who look exactly like Don Knotts

A brand new color, known only as velvet creamsicle (Crayola will get the patent, I'm sure)

Lord of the planet, kneel before Zod

A new definition of pain and suffering, as the spacecraft is slowly digested over a thousand years

Grass that is, in fact, much greener, although a little on the radioactive side

Um, Plan 9?