“Are We Alone?” series on the Science Channel

[jberryhill]

6. The question of life elsewhere is certainly one of theoretical science

My goodness we've been employing scads of scientists for quite a while working on this question. The recent work on organisms in Mono Lake having entirely different biochemistry than other life on Earth had, and correct me if I'm wrong, a NASA scientist as lead investigator.

Someone has to work out the robotic labs and chemical tests on those Martian landers with the idea in mind that life forms elsewhere will be wildly different from that which evolved here.

That is hardly "not science".