A while ago I lucked into some telescopes that were being discarded as trash – the weren’t being kept up, and the owner had moved on to what he termed “professional grade” equipment. His trash was something hopelessly beyond my budget to pick up as a first order product, so I was more than happy
I don’t know if it’s because of junk journalism, junk science, or small-minded scientists being the vocal minority in every article pertaining to the subject (probably while all the real scientists are off science-ing), but the most commonly reported views on the probability/frequency of extraterrestrial life are absurd. I’m not talking in terms of intelligent
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