Space Aliens and Life's Ladder

I'd be surprised if many folks took movies like "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers," "Invaders from Mars," and "Plan 9 from Outer Space," seriously: as something other than entertainment, anyway.

All of which has about as much to do with space exploration, astronomy, and SETI, as Keeping Up with the Kardashians does with family counseling.

I'll be talking about SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence; the Fermi paradox; and whatever else comes to mind — but first, the Copernican principle, which arguably sounds cooler than the mediocrity principle.

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