Encounters Out There

An alien species hovered Earth with their generation mothership to make first contact.

During a roundtable discussion, a sociologist asked an alien ambassador, "Do your people age?"

"Yes, they do. Why do you inquire?" asked the ambassador.

"Everyone looks young, by our scientific measurements, no older than 30 Earth years old."

"You're correct."

"Why's that?"

"It started out early in our journey. Politics, no less. There was a claim that only the younger generation was capable, so we isolated the elders, eventually from all walks of life—engineering, teaching, etc."

"Where do they go?"

"Our ship traversed the galaxy nonstop …"