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		grandalf on April 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stephen Hawking: Aliens Exist, but Talking to them... That's true, but life is only the ability to replicate and does not necessarily have anything to do with any particular element or substrate. Intelligent life could be totally unlike anything we think of as life, and could even exist inside the sun.

colah on April 25, 2010 [–]

_We_ might ourselves be a resources. A novel life form.

goatforce5 on April 25, 2010 | [–]

We'll make great pets!

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