Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials *

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Mar 29, 201612:53Society & Culture

“The evolutionary record is clear that extraterrestrials would be very different from us” – Carl Sagan in 1985, as told to Studs Terkel. The incomprehensible vastness of the universe, the wonder of our own place in it al...

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