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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forev...more

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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

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This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the pr...more

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Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had n...more

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But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its ...more