How would you like to be paid to do nothing?

 Lost in Space

Professor Brian Cox

Sounds too good to be true, but that is what Professor Brian Cox is being paid by Manchester University to do. His thoery is there is no sentient life in the universe, other than on Earth.

So he sits, and watches for nothing to happen, the irony is there have been signals in space picked up by the Hubble Telescope from distant stars