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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Alien Life, Coming Slowly Into View - NYTimes.com

Alien Life, Coming Slowly Into View - NYTimes.com: "I REMEMBER the first time the concept of another world entered my mind. It was during a walk with my father in our garden in Sri Lanka. He pointed to the Moon and told me that people had walked on it. I was astonished: Suddenly that bright light became a place that one could visit.

Schoolchildren may feel a similar sense of wonder when they see pictures of a Martian landscape or Saturn’s rings. And soon their views of alien worlds may not be confined to the planets in our own solar system."

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