"I got two reactions one I how charming it was that you thought we would go find aliens on another planet and that we might exploit them," he said. "It's just oh rather than like independence day and they're going to come and kill us yeah yeah yeah." All of the alien movies are mirrors to our culture as in treating it almost like a guidebook or a recipe yes, she added.
If scientists discovered that we are not alone, what would they do with that information? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about the search for life, habitability around M stars and more with astrophysics professor and author Aomawa Shields.
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