Look on My Works, Ye Science Fictioneers, and Despair!

The Loom
By Carl Zimmer
Feb 2, 2008 10:27 PMNov 5, 2019 4:49 AM

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University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward and I are talking again on bloggingheads--this time about aliens. Ward explains why science fiction writers hate him, and why we need to breed tiny astronauts if we ever want to get out of our solar system. Check it out. Poster from Wikimedia Commons, Headline Defiled From Shelley

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