Real extraterrestrials may not be so obvious, if we never find them
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If you are the kind of person who keeps an eye on astronomical news – or I look on any information site – you may have seen a story on Advice from an extraterrestrial life sign on an exoplanet called K2-18B. The complaint is controversial, but a large part of the coverage was positive. The problem, I think, is Star TrekOr any other science fiction that you could worry about mentioning. Thanks to the budgets that govern television, we are used to the extraterrestrials are obvious; They are usually about 6 feet …
