... one of your most burning questions.
Suppose God (or, an all-powerful, omniscient being) were to descend upon the world one day. God tells you, that he will provide for you the answer to ONE - and only one - of your questions. This answer will be 100% truthful (considering he's God, and all-knowing, yeah).
What would your question be?
Although there are a million things I would like to know - How to cure AIDS? What came first, the chicken or the egg? Is Elvis really dead? How do I become rich beyond imagination? - I probably would ask God this:
"Does (intelligent) life exist anywhere outside of our Earth?"
It might sound weird that I'd waste my one question on something like this, but I've always been fascinated with the answer. On the one hand, I believe evolution of life on Earth was pretty much a crapshot: a one in a billion chance of circumstances being in the right place, at the right time. What's the chance of the same happening elsewhere in the galaxy? On the other hand ... I'd really fancy the idea that a similar lifeform to ours has managed to evolve somewhere out there. Maybe they're even trying to reach out to us now?
What about you?