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Extraterrestrial
Numbers | Math
What Are the Odds of Alien Contact?
Bringing the Drake Equation up to date.
Ideas | Artificial Intelligence
It May Not Feel Like Anything To Be an Alien
Humans may have one thing that advanced aliens don’t—consciousness.
Matter | Aliens
Why Discovering Martians Could Be Disappointing
There are two kinds of extraterrestrial life with very different implications.
Culture | Astronomy
Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox
The results of galactic colonization models are a mixed bag for SETI optimists.
Related Facts So Romantic
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” —Jules Verne
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