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"Must extraterrestrial intelligent life be carbon-based, or can we expect different kinds of life for intelligence?"
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Found: Earth-Like Planet
A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star’s “habitable zone,” where life could exist, possibly in oceans of water.
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