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Hope for the alien hunters
Guardian Unlimited ^ | 07/10/07 | Johnjoe McFadden

Posted on 07/10/2007 7:41:23 PM PDT by KevinDavis

Nasa this week unveils a new emissary in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. The Phoenix Mars Lander, which launches next month, marks just the latest instalment in a quest that has exercised the imaginations of writers and scientists since long before the adventures of Jules Verne. In the 17th century Johannes Kepler, the architect of our modern understanding of the solar system, imagined a journey to a moon inhabited by serpent-like creatures called Prevlovans who endured the lunar night "bristling with ice and snow under the raging, icy winds". Regrettably, however, here is no reliable account of a real encounter with alien life-forms. Many doubt whether they exist at all.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aliens; et; seti; space

1 posted on 07/10/2007 7:41:24 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 07/10/2007 7:42:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Mitt Romney 08)
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Well, actually, I've always been the hopeful type.

3 posted on 07/10/2007 7:46:30 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

How many others clicked on this thread with the intention of posting a similar image?!


4 posted on 07/10/2007 7:49:25 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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LOL!


5 posted on 07/10/2007 8:36:35 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: KevinDavis

It has to be tough to come up with fresh speculation on this while so far actual evidence is as scarce as UFO parts.


6 posted on 07/11/2007 7:43:31 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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