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>I've often said to my children (just before they say "you're boring") that their generation will be the first to detect intelligent alien life. Maybe it'll come sooner than that with this new effort. Its exciting. I wonder if it will be just like another country we don't understand or will it be really weird.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia10008.htmlThe second-last paragraph says: "It is expected to help improve understanding of such phenomena as supernovas, black holes, and exotic astronomical objects that have been predicted but never observed." I wonder, what would those exotic objects be?
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)