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Re:Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them is too... by ck2 on Sunday April 25, 2010 @01:13AM (#1292210)
Finding Earth in the universe would be like finding a specific single grain of sand on Miami beach.
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Re:Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them is too... by grandalf on Sunday April 25, 2010 @01:29AM (#1292228)
That's true, but life is only the ability to replicate and does not necessarily have anything to do with any particular element or substrate. Intelligent life could be totally unlike anything we think of as life, and could even exist inside the sun.
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Re:Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them is too... by colah on Sunday April 25, 2010 @01:41AM (#1292244)
_We_ might ourselves be a resources. A novel life form.
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Re:Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them is too... by goatforce5 on Sunday April 25, 2010 @12:28PM (#1292960)
We'll make great pets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkmtweNQ-U

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