Looking for life zillions of miles away:
Jill Tarter on why looking for life elsewhere is good.
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Let's define alien.
Definition number one: unfamiliar. By that description alone, a good 99% of life on this planet is alien. Breathing water, living nestled in thermal vents, stalking prey on the veldt, growing out of the Earth and eating sunlight, without eyes, without legs, with extra legs,…
“We… are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.” -Jill Tarter
But that doesn't mean we can't also look to the hydrogen itself, and use its information to learn about where other things may have come from!
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