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They're Not Meat

Seth Shostak | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Alien-Life-Forms, Alien Life, Seti Keplar, Keplar Telescope, Seti Aliens, Kepler, Extraterrestrials, Extraterrestrial Life, Seti, Science News
Seth Shostak

In a movie it's important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be "read" by humans. But come on! Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential?

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Life: Miraculous or Mundane?

Seth Shostak | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Habitable Planets, Biology, Space, Alien Life, Earth Biology, Outer Space Life, Keplar Telescope, Aliens, Life in Space, Extraterrestrials, Extraterrestrial Life, Planet Biology, Earth Life, Technology News
Seth Shostak

When it comes to life in space, we have to do more than simply consider what's on our blackboards. We have to do the hard work -- we have to search. To quote Fox Mulder, the truth is out there.

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