Posted on 07/30/2007 4:00:11 PM PDT by KevinDavis
If we encountered alien life, would we recognize it? I don't mean large, ambulatory, tentacle-snapping organisms with eyeballs on the ends of stalks. Those are always obvious. I'm talking about the low-key, chilled-out microscopic life-forms that might be lurking below the surface of Mars, or beneath the crust of one of Jupiter's jumbo moons, or in some such exotic, slightly scuzzy planetary environment where you'd definitely never find a Starbucks.
What are we looking for, exactly, when we search for alien life? What is life?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Aliens are really fallen angels!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone knows THAT. : )
This article goes off into the weeds immediately by suggesting that there wouldn’t be a Starbucks nearby
I agree. Put anyone inside the Beltway for a year and they become infected with parasitism!
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