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Gray Aliens and Rock Paper Scissors

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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The Significance of How We Imagine Aliens

Aliens represent both our greatest hopes and our greatest fears./nWe imagine them destroying us or being wiser and more enlightened than us./nWhen imagining aliens more powerful than us, we increase the relative size of organs associated with power, like brains and eyes./nThe prominence of aliens' huge eyes in abduction stories is no coincidence.

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