Some scientists decided that it would be a good idea to look for life outside of our normal reference point -- someone who looks or acts like us -- and search for other kinds of life as we don't know it. I didn't order the slim book the group authored. It is no longer than Old Man and the Sea, but the price per page is a lot more; so, I'll leave it to others who are more gullible to buy it.
I just wonder why they wrote the book. A local TV station used to show old Flash Gordon episodes that were made in the 1930's or '40's or '50's, when the world was black-and-white. Buster Crabbe played Flash Gordon. And he encountered the Rock People, as I recall. And I think he met some Sand People.
Mr. Spock mind-melded and made friends with a Horta, which Dr. McCoy patched up with cement, in Star Trek. There were any number of non-carbon-based life forms described and encountered in the Star Trek series, along with a variety of colorful humanoids, all of whom Captain Kirk bedded at one time or another after tearing his shirt.
So, what took these scientists so long to figure out that maybe there are other things out there that might be alive, but not as we know it?
Yo, scientists -- look to science fiction! The truth is always far stranger.
seems like real science often takes cues from science fiction ... just takes longer sometimes.
Posted by: tj at July 9, 2007 09:23 AMFlash Gordon - My hero.
Posted by: Anji at July 10, 2007 09:31 AM