extraterrestrial
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It’s rare to have the opportunity to consider museum ethics, extraterrestrial life and the labor theory of value all in one show, but that’s one of the many charms of this always surprising fair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Cramer has been going to conferences related to extraterrestrial matters for years, and he knows that his audiences have always been “outside the mainstream.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Shortly after the two major announcements of possible extraterrestrial life in 2025, we surveyed astrobiologists to understand how expert judgment was distributed across the field.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
He’s not a super-scientist or a god or an extraterrestrial or a one-percenter able to develop all manner of nifty crime-fighting gadgetry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is comparatively inexpensive: the cost of a single naval vessel of intermediate size— a modern destroyer, say—would pay for a decade-long program in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
“Disclosure Day” is Spielberg’s latest alien-centric movie that charts a desperate race to show the world the truth about extraterrestrials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
You can bet on Nepal’s elections, which actor will next play James Bond, the next cabinet member to exit the Trump administration, and even whether the U.S. will confirm before 2027 that extraterrestrials exist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
In a follow-up post on Instagram, Obama, who served as US president between 2009-17, clarified: "I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us. Really!"
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
In science-fiction scenarios of first contact with extraterrestrials, humans usually bootstrap a common language with mathematics, demonstrating that we know the digits of pi and so forth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
It would be easy for extraterrestrials to make an unambiguously artificial interstellar message.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Elements of the Universe: Terr, Terra ("Earth")
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