Cosmic Queries – Silicon Aliens with David Grinspoon
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The Search for Non-Carbon-Based Life
Trevor C. Mills: At what point in our search for extraterrestrial life, do we start a search for non-carbon-based life? David Grinspoon: It's almost like more a perspective we have to keep in mind and remember that the search needs to be conducted with the humility of the realization that we don't really know what we're looking for. Chuck Tyson: We haven't thought of any other kind of life that works as well. But that just... That could be because we're done. Because the universe doesn't know how to do it.
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