This morning I read that Ralph McQuarrie was dead and I'm embarrassed to admit that I had no idea who he was. Ralph's conceptual designs for "Star Wars" "E.T" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" helped to shape the way that many children of my generation imagined life in galaxies far, far away. So I invite you to let your imaginations take flight to strange new worlds or delve through the X files, but don't get probed...