Extraterrestrial life, that familiar science-fiction trope, has become a matter of serious discussion, a “risk factor”, a “scenario”. We have now discovered several planets that are in a zone potentially compatible with life – Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e and Kepler-62. Subsequently, the discovery of alien life now seems inevitable – and…
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