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Meet the Scientists

Michio Kaku

Jack Horner

Stephen W. Hawking

J. Craig Venter

Dr. James Garvin

Victoria Meadows

Wayne Barlowe

Randy Pollock

David Moriarty

Curtis Clark

Joan Horvath

James Kirkland

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Scientists Answer

What is Life?

How Do We Find Alien Life?

Are We Alone?

Is Intelligent Life Out There?

If We Find Aliens, What Next?

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The Darwin System

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Alien Datafile

Arrowtongue

Beach Quill

Bladderhorn

Daggerwrist

Emperor Sea Strider

Sea Strider Nymph

Groveback

Gyrosprinter

Jetdarter

Littoralope

Pronghead

Skewer

Trunk Sucker

Unth

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Alternate Aliens

The Search for New Worlds

NASA and the SETI Program

The Habitable Zone

Emergence of Life

Aliens in Science Fiction I

Aliens in Science Fiction II

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Wallpapers

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Extraterrestrial Discussions

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Alternate Aliens

An artist drawing of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft passing by Jupiter in 1973.

The Search for New Worlds

In the broadest terms, mankind’s obsessive fascination with space exploration is largely concentrated on two areas – the first is the cosmic hunt for planets which are habitable and conducive for life, and therefore are possible candidates for colonisation in the future when technology allows; the other is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, other unlikely inhabitants in the limitless universe in which we live.

Astronomers and biologists are always cautious when discussing the possibility of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe – after all, statisticians will tell you that basing a scientific argument on a sample size of one is sheer and utter folly. Scientists have no idea or evidence to show that Earth and humankind is a one-off accident, or a common occurrence in the universe.