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Space: Alien Speculation
Will the real ET be little green men or little green bacteria? SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak theorizes what our first alien encounter might be like.
Added: Feb 23, 2009
Views: 182497 Views
Runtime: 02:44
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