Alien Quote by David Grinspoon

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“We can look out on an alien landscape that no one has seen before and find it beautiful.”

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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

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If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese…

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When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in…

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What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive?…

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What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's…

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I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the…

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I'd been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a 'ban the bomb' march in Boston in 1963.

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Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.

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We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with…

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The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa…

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Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are…

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Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new…

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