Searching for Extraterrestrials: Where Are
Searching for Extraterrestrials: Where Are They? [via Slashdot]
Nobel prize–winning biochemist Christian de Duve has gone so far as to conclude, "Life is almost bound to arise … wherever
physical conditions are similar to those that prevailed on our planet some four billion years ago." So there is every reason to
believe that the galaxy is teeming with living things.